Erbe: Don't expect much from Earth summit
Photo credit: AP | New York mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, right, and Babatunde Fashola of Lagos, shake hands during the UN Conference on Sustainable Development, or Rio+20, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (June 19, 2012)
Don't expect much from the Rio+20 Earth summit in Brazil this week. Despite a dazzling display of more than 100 heads of state and 50,000 environmental activists, business leaders and policy-makers, most analysts agree there will be much more disagreement at this United Nations meeting than agreement.
The meeting is called Rio+20 because the UN is trying to reinvigorate the progress sparked...
