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From side event to side event
Representatives of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) tend to flock together. They attend the same events, which take place far from the actual “battlegrounds”. They are generally like-minded, but every organization wishes to see its own specific agenda reflected in the negotiation text. Solidarity ends when it comes down to details, because everyone considers his or her own topic to be more important than any other.
On Saturday morning, during a briefing of the agricultural groups (of...
The impotence of science
It’s winter at Copacabana beach. Our delegation is housed in a small apartment house, with the street number 2516, on the glamourous Avenida Atlantica: separated from the beach by a never ending stream of traffic that runs day and night. The temperature is a comfortable 24 degrees. The humidity is high.
Rio de Janeiro hosts the World Summit, Rio+20, of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (http://www.uncsd2012.org/. We are...
