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RIO 10

  • 14/07/2002

RIO 10 UPDATE
Beached!

Non-government organisations get the sinking feeling that the wssd will deliver nothing, after the final preparatory meeting in Bali comes to no good

"M r Annan, the Earth Summit is sinking,' alarmed civil society groups wrote to un Secretary General Kofi Annan, after the final preparatory meeting to the World Summit on Sustainable Development (wssd) in Bali failed to reach agreement last month. A brief "Mr Annan, the Earth is sinking' may reflect the situation better.

The Draft Plan of Implementation that emerged from the Bali meeting was supposed to lay out concrete targets and deadlines. But agreement on deadlines

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