ABSTRACT
Those of us who have watched the process have said that the Earth Summit has failed ... Multinational corporations, the United States, Japan, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund have got away with what they always wanted ... the Summit has ensured increased domination by those who already have power. Worse still, it has robbed the poor of the little power they had. It has made them victims of a market economy that has thus far threatened our planet ... few negotiators realised how critical their decisions are to our generation. By failing to address such fundamental issues as militarism, the regulation of transnational corporations, the democratisation of international aid agencies and the inequitable terms of trade, my generation has been damned." - Wagaki Mwangi, Kenyan, Youth delegate to the Earth Summit
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |10 pages
Introduction
part I|52 pages
The Documents
chapter 1|17 pages
Whose Common Future?
chapter 2|9 pages
Southern Elites
chapter 3|24 pages
Rio and Bust
part II|42 pages
Non-governmental Organizations
chapter 4|14 pages
Telling ‘Greens' Apart
chapter 5|13 pages
Feeding the Peoples into the Green Machine
chapter 6|13 pages
What Did Environmental NGOs Achieve?
part III|32 pages
Business and Industry
chapter 7|12 pages
Promoting Big Business at Rio
chapter 8|16 pages
Changing What?
part IV|28 pages
Finance and Institutions
chapter 9|10 pages
Can Money Save the World?
chapter 10|14 pages
Institutional Outcomes
part V|9 pages
Conclusions