Are U.N. environmental mega-conferences a dying breed?
ClimateWire: More than 45,000 people flew around the world to participate in Brazil’s second Earth Summit last week, and many left here wondering whether it was worth the trip.
Yet despite a final Rio Declaration widely derided as a failure, dozens of attendees said they would do it all over again, mostly because they don’t see a worthwhile alternative.
Interviews with activists, business leaders, negotiators and others pointed to one clear theme: disappointment, edged by an unwillingness to nakedly say…
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