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Critics say America blocked an effort, first mooted at the Stockholm Earth Summit 40 years ago, to make the UN's Environment Programme a fully fledged UN agency.
ECONOMIST: A limp agreement at the UN��s vaunted environmental summit
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At the Stockholm environment summit of 1972 - the world's first - and at the Earth Summit here in 1992, the activists' gatherings were acknowledged as the conscience of the meeting.
BBC: Poems and politics at the heart of Rio
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The word gained an airing across the world 40 years ago, at the first UN environment summit in Stockholm, when Sweden's Prime Minister Olof Palme levelled the charge against the US over its use of defoliant chemicals during the war in Vietnam.
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