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By Haider Rizvi

Rio+10 in a State of Emergency

The United Nations and the South African government are leading a final attempt to resuscitate the World Summit on Sustainable Development, which gets underway in Johannesburg in less than a month. The negotiations on some crucial issues seem to have reached an impasse.

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By Mario Osava

Good-Bye Garbage Dumps

The clean-up of several unregulated garbage dumps in the industrial Brazilian municipality of Sao Bernardo do Campo has served to raise the environmental awareness of the area's 700,000 residents. The concept behind the project is to promote sustainable human development.

Santiago Doesn't Know What to Do with Its Garbage

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Photo credit: Unión Ecológica Salvadoreña.

Photo credit: Unión Ecológica Salvadoreña.

By Néfer Muñoz

Adobe Stands Up to Quakes

A non-governmental organization in El Salvador is promoting the construction of adobe homes designed to withstand the relatively frequent earthquakes that hit Central America.

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Credit: Fabricio Van Den Broeck

Credit: Fabricio Van Den Broeck

By Enrique Leff

Alternatives to Environmental Neo-Liberalism

The current globalization process, has imposed an "over-economization" of the world, is tarnishing the prospects for the upcoming Johannesburg Summit. The alternative to a market based on a system of production that harms nature is environmental rationality, says this UNEP expert.

UN Conferences and Summits

The international conferences and summits convened by the United Nations generate intense mobilization around issues of global interest. On the current agenda are two major gatherings, one about sustainable development, the other about the information society.

Colombian children learn about caring for water sources... Argentina promotes ecotourism in Antarctica... A plan for transporting dangerous substances safely in Peru... Non-payment for water services hurts investment in Mexico's waterworks... Honduran capital the most polluted in Central America... Anti-dengue fumigation criticized in El Salvador... Fomenting clean energy in Central America.

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