IN THE final days of the World Summit, ministers were touting partnerships between industry, government and community groups as the magic ingredient for delivering a green and poverty-free future. But a New Scientist investigation reveals that many of the claims being made for the scheme are false.
The partnerships initiatives are one of three formal outcomes of the summit, besides the plan of implementation and a ministerial statement. The first batch of projects submitted to the UN offers a bewildering array of ideas. At one end of the scale, a Dutch group has a “bicycle refurbishing initiative” to collect 100,000…
