Category Archives: Precautionary principle

Climate Depot Featured at UN Earth Summit

‘Failure here is good for the world’s poor people. We need to redefine sustainable development as oil, gas, coal’ Continue reading

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Rio green summit dismissed as ‘hoax that achieved nothing’

The UN’s Rio Plus 20 summit on sustainable development ended yesterday amid a torrent of criticism from environment and development campaigners, who said the colossal, three-day international meeting had achieved nothing. Continue reading

Moonbat: Rio+20 draft text is 283 paragraphs of fluff

World leaders have spent 20 years bracing themselves to express ‘deep concern’ about the world’s environmental crises, but not to do anything about them Continue reading

‘Green Is The New Red:’ GBTV Discusses Global Warming And Radical Factions Of Environmentalism

The U.N. Conference on Sustainable Development closed Friday in Rio de Janeiro after having brought 100 world leaders and more than 45,000 people to Brazil to discuss reconciling economic and environmental aspirations. Continue reading

Peter Foster: The Rio future we avoided

Maurice Strong sees the cratering of his Stewie Griffin-style plan to rule the world Continue reading

Rio+20 Earth Summit: campaigners decry final document

‘Pathway for a sustainable future’ declared, but Greenpeace says summit was failure of epic proportions Continue reading

Louise Gray: Rio+20: Nick Clegg blames China for ‘disappointing text’

Nick Clegg, the Deputy Prime Minister, has blamed a ‘neocolonial world’, where China is more powerful than Europe, for a “disappointing” new global deal on saving the environment. Continue reading

Geoffrey Lean: Rio+20 Earth Summit is a washout

The climate change conference produced an inconsequential agreement that will not take action on any of the urgent issues Continue reading

James Delingpole: Rio: killing the earth since 1992

Quite possibly the only good thing about this week’s Rio + 20 summit is that it coincides with the publication of a brilliant new book called Os Melancias. If you’re American or Canadian you’ll know it as Watermelons: The Green Movement’s True Colors. Continue reading

Juliet Eilperin: Rio+20 Earth Summit results in nonbinding declaration with moderate goals

The global environment summit concluding Friday, which drew nearly 100 world leaders and more than 45,000 other people to Rio de Janiero and cost tens of millions of dollars, may produce one lasting legacy: Convincing people it’s not worth holding global summits. Continue reading

Eurozone crisis and US presidential race ‘damaged Rio+20 prospects’

‘Mother of sustainability’ Gro Harlem Brundtland laments the absence of Barack Obama and David Cameron from the summit

Brundtland is a seriously looney dipstick so afraid of modernity she believes people’s cell phones “attack her mind”. She’s been trying to strangle capitalism, wealth creation, improving living standards, resource utilization and development for decades. Continue reading

Andy Revkin: Dispatches from Rio: None from Obama?

I understand why President Obama is not going to the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development in Rio, which is a reprise of the 1992 Earth Summit there at which President George H. W. Bush and nearly all the world’s leaders appeared. Continue reading

Blaming climate change 
on agriculture unjustified

Another year, another United Nations conference on climate change.
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World leaders’ Rio accord is epic failure, says Greenpeace

NEGOTIATORS in Rio de Janeiro have claimed success after finalising a statement to be issued by more than 100 world leaders who arrive in the Brazilian city over the next few days. Continue reading

Tim Wilson: Green growth comes at a high price

Australia’s negotiating position at the Rio+20 conference this week confirms that the Gillard government considers Australia’s national economic interest a secondary concern. Continue reading

Rupert Darwall: Rio+20 NGO fantasy

Summit this week to show cooling trend on warming targets Continue reading

Rio+20: a sustainable development conference that might forget the environment

Twenty years after the historic “Earth Summit” in Rio de Janeiro, the international community will again converge on the city this week to renew their commitments to sustainable development. However, the hope that the conference will be a game-changer for the environment appears to be dashed before the official proceedings have even begun. Continue reading

EDITORIAL: Just say no to Rio

Global-warming bureaucrats shouldn’t get their hands on American cash Continue reading

Yet more propaganda: Former Soviet president warns conference is doomed if climate change is ignored

FAILURE TO act on climate change will “doom” Rio+20 – the upcoming UN conference on sustainable development – according to a high-level task force convened by former Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev. Continue reading

Rio Isn’t All Lost

IN June 1992, world leaders, including President George Bush, agreed to combat climate change at the Earth Summit meeting in Rio de Janeiro. This week, at “Rio+20,” leaders, experts and activists will once more gather to ponder the fate of the planet. Continue reading