Women’s Major Group Members at Rio+20 Call for End to Nuclear Power and Support for Safe Energy at Rio+20
Rio de Janeiro (June 18): Only two days before the official opening of the United Nations 20th Anniversary Conference of the 1992 “Earth Summit”, representatives from the Women’s Major Group delivered an impassioned rejection of nuclear power and a call for safe energy development in response to a half-day conversation between energy experts and civil society sponsored by the Brazilian government and entitled the “Rio+20 Development Dialogue on Energy” that they believed was bluntly promoting nuclear energy. Representing non-governmental organizations …
