BRAZIL: GREENPEACE ACTIVISTS HANG GIANT BANNER FROM JESUS CHRIST STATUE IN RIO DE JANEIRO.

Record ID: 325543

  • Title: BRAZIL: GREENPEACE ACTIVISTS HANG GIANT BANNER FROM JESUS CHRIST STATUE IN RIO DE JANEIRO.
  • Date: 6th September 2002
  • Summary: (U6) RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL (SEPTEMBER 05, 2002) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. GV: BACK VIEW OF JESUS STATUE 0.05 2. VARIOUS AERIAL SHOTS OF GREENPEACE ACTIVISTS ATTACHING BANNER THAT SAYS: "RIO + 10 = 2 (SECOND) CHANCE?" (8 SHOTS) 1.16 3. MCU: (SOUNDBITE) (Portuguese) GREENPEACE ACTIVIST FRANK GUGGENHEIM SAYING: "In this act, we are asking why
  • Embargoed: 21st September 2002 13:00
  • Keywords:
  • Location: RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL
  • Country: Brazil
  • Reuters ID: LVA1XZIY134BQ1NDVKNHRHS61JSN
  • Story Text: Greenpeace activists have hung a giant banner from one
    of Brazil's most famous monuments, protesting the lack of
    international response since the Rio de Janeiro environmental
    summit ten years ago.



    Three members of Greenpeace, the global environmental
    organisation, scaled Rio's Jesus Christ statue and hung an
    enormous banner across the monument's outstretched arms on
    Thursday (September 5).

    The sign read, "Rio + 10 = 2nd chance?", referring to the
    ten years between the Rio Earth Summit and the United Nations'
    Earth Summit in Johannesburg.

    At the Rio summit in 1992, 150 attending nations pledged
    to protect the global environment and reduce poverty.

    However, 10 years later, many of those promises remained
    unfullfilled, says Greenpeace.

    "In this act, we are asking why they will say good-bye to
    a second chance? When will we have another chance? We
    urgently need to do something to go back to the situation of
    excitement that existed after the first conference", said
    Greenpeace activist Frank Guggenheim.

    After ten days of tirelessly lobbying world leaders and
    delegates, activists say they failed to win a strong blueprint
    to fight poverty and save the environment.

    Environmentalists have slammed the summit's "action plan",
    saying it lacks targets for the use of renewable energy
    sources like wind or solar power.

    They said a pledge to halve the number of people who lack
    sanitation -- a staggering 2.4 billion people -- by 2015 was
    weakly worded and not binding.



  • Copyright Holder: REUTERS
  • Copyright Notice: (c) Copyright Thomson Reuters 2015. Open For Restrictions - http://about.reuters.com/fulllegal.asp
  • Usage Terms/Restrictions: None
Register