| Wheeling and Dealing:From Rio to Copenhagen |
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In June, 1992 world leaders gathered at Rio de Janeiro in Brazil for the Earth Summit (The United
Nations Conference on Environment and Development – UNCED), to give themselves - as they
proclaimed - “the last chance to save the world” from an impending environmental crisis. Seventeen
years down the line, and after several more world summits, they are still at it. In December 2009
they will meet again at Copenhagen to negotiate a treaty that aims to save the world from the most
cataclysmic threat to its existence - the threat of climate change.