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Paris. More
than a hundred countries now support a French proposal to create a “World
Environment Organization” at the upcoming 20th anniversary conference of the
Rio Summit, France’s ecology minister said on Tuesday.
“More than
100 countries have now associated themselves with the proposal,” Nathalie
Kosciusko-Morizet said at a conference in Paris aimed at stimulating ideas for
the June 20-22 global gathering.
The idea is
to beef up the UN Environment Program (UNEP), which critics say lacks clout and
resources for dealing with the world’s worsening environmental crisis.
Kosciusko-Morizet
said the new agency was a key to the success of the June 20-22 conference,
designed to assess the 20 years that have passed since the 1992 Rio Summit that
nailed the environment to the political agenda.
It should
be part of a rethink of the world’s economy, in which green issues and social
questions should be placed alongside the search for profit.
“The new
capitalism which emerges from the crisis has to be environmental, or it won’t
be new,” she said.
The Paris
conference gathered several hundred representatives from national and local
government, thinktanks and civil society with the declared aim of gingering up
a program, called “draft zero,” that is being hammered out for Rio.
Agence France-Presse
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