ENVIRONMENT: Rio+20 ends with a whimper, not a bang*

Twenty years ago, the UN International Conference on Sustainable Development in Rio ended with a ringing endorsement of the extreme environmentalists’ agenda of mandatory cuts in CO2 emissions by the developed world, and a massive transfer of money to the Third World to compensate for the effects of increased CO2 emissions and “global warming”.
The latest UN conference, styled by its organisers as Rio+20. and attended by our Prime Minister Julia Gillard and a conference ha…

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