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Contributor [1]
Thursday, August 15, 2002 - 03:00
Categories: 
Environment [2]
Issue Number: 
77 [3]
Article-Summary: 

The 50,000 delegates from nearly 200 countries set to throng the Johannesburg summit this month will have no problem finding a common language to thrash out a strategy for sustainable development. They'll be immersed in the eco-jargon that splits experts from the lay community, most of whom have no idea what the broad, vague phrase "sustainable development"
actually means.

Category: 
Land & Environment [4]
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http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category.php/environment/9550 [5]
Country: 
South Africa [6]

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