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Rio+20: Doing the zombie shuffle

Submitted by kieronb on Fri, 2012-06-22 15:38

Rio+20: Doing the zombie shuffle "Rio+20 is a zombie summit, shuffling through its paces dead-eyed, toothless, empty-handed. It is a ritual that lacks a clear agenda or international commitment to action. Its 53-page, 283-clause draft text can rightly be criticised as a pastiche of platitudes."

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Friday, 22 June 2012 - 3:36pm

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