Environmental Axis of Evil in Paradise

As the PrepCom meeting in Bali hits the half-way mark, Indonesian and international NGOs are expressing disappointment and frustration on a number of fronts.

June 4, 2002

COMING on the tenth anniversary of the Rio Earth Summit, Bali is the final negotiating stop for the upcoming World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD), to be held in Johannesburg, South Africa in late August. The WSSD is meant to address the failure of the global community to meet the aspirations laid out in Rio and to achieve a number of development goals established in the UN Millennium Declaration agreed to by the General Assembly last y

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