Early in the year, the UN Environment Assembly furnished policy guidance on several critical issues at its sixth session.

Finding faults with COPs seems misplaced. Established at the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, these conventions have universal membership and serve as global platforms in their respective areas.

Countries including the US successfully resisted Africa’s push for a legally binding drought protocol at the “land COP” in ...

What's more, in addition to patterns of omission in the stories as a whole, one can also find intersecting patterns within ...

With any list, there's a natural tendency to look first at No. 1, and neither I nor Project Censored would discourage you ...

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The Earth Summit opened today in Johannesburg ... and biggest polluter to the green agenda first agreed at Rio de Janeiro 10 years ago. Bush is too busy dealing with security problems in the ...

In 1992, I attended the Rio de Janeiro Earth Summit. It was then that environmental concerns were integrated into world politics. However, despite the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, governments and global ...

The graphic also allows you to track the commitments made in the COPSs held since the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro. The AFP.com home page is also offering a selection of AFP’s text, photo, ...

Thanks to the maneuverings of the tiny nation of Vanuatu, the entire industrialized world is effectively on trial in The ...