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RIO UPDATE: Key 53-page Document (will be) Approved (And Designated "Classified" By the UN)
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UN Censorship: Rio Earth Summit text is now secret -- Senior official of 'transparent' UN admits Rio negotiating text is classified
In a shock move, officially-accredited non-government delegates who had traveled thousands of miles to attend the UN's Rio+20 sustainable development conference in Brazil have been refused all access to the central negotiating text.
This key document, containing all of the environmental conference's decisions, is now restricted to governmental delegates only.
The UN's panic decision to classify the Rio negotiating text follows CFACT's Climate Depot revelation at the UN climate conference in Durban in 2011 of the then-public Durban draft, whose contents the world's news media had failed to report.
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Marc Morano, publisher of Climate Depot, has attended many UN conferences and is in Rio, said: “This censorship by the UN is without precedent. The public has had access to these documents at previous UN summits. This latest development makes a mockery of any UN claim to 'transparency.'”
[link to climatedepot.com]
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Greenpeace is onto something.
"We were offered a common vision of inaction and destruction," Daniel Mittler, political director of Greenpeace International, told AFP. "There's absolutely nothing there for people and the planet," he added.
[link to www.mnn.com]
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Rio+20: Relief but few smiles as deal forged on summit's eve
One of the biggest areas of dispute was on "Sustainable Development Goals," or SDGs, that will replace the UN's Millennium Development Goals after these objectives expire in 2015 and on promoting the green economy.
Efforts by the European Union (EU) for text to shore up the environmental quality of the SDGs when they are negotiated in detail fell through.
Developing countries, too, failed to get any figures in paragraphs about financing sustainable growth for poorer economies. The Group of 77 and China bloc had demanded $30 billion a year.
"We have a text that has been agreed 100 percent by the 193 (UN) parties," Brazilian Foreign Minister Antonio Patriota told reporters.
"It amounts to a victory for multilateralism... after 20 years, the spirit of Rio remains alive."
[link to news.yahoo.com]
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After reading through these articles, and others, there is barely a mention of the Kyoto Protocol (remember how the elite were screaming about saving it?).
I can safely guess that governments unhappy with the document will leak some of the details (and we will be left putting puzzle pieces together), and unless/until the UN makes the document public, I think we can safely assume there is some more shifty rhetoric than Durban and Cancun.
I typically research some of the main speakers and what they say, but this time is different. It's real hush hush. I'll start another thread if/when details emerge.
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