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General information. In 1992, more than 100 heads of state met in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil for the first international Earth Summit convened to address urgent problems of environmental protection ...
In June 1992 representatives from 172 nations convened in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, for the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), commonly called the Earth Summit. The Earth Summit was an unprecedented meeting of representatives, including 108 heads of state, 2,400 representatives from various non-governmental ...
Rio de Janerio, Brazil, 3 to 14 June 1992 AGENDA 21 CONTENTS Chapter Paragraphs 1. Preamble 1.1 - 1.6 SECTION I. SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC DIMENSIONS 2. International cooperation to accelerate sustainable development in developing countries and related domestic policies 2.1 - 2.43 3. Combating poverty 3.1 - 3.12 4.
Jun 22, 2012 · Twenty years after the 1992 ' Earth Summit ' in Rio de Janeiro, the 2012 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development in Rio (also known as Rio+20) resulted in a document containing clear ...
Governments came together to discuss and address such existential challenges at the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro. It was at this Summit where the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC, also known as UN Climate Change) and the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD, also known as UN Biodiversity) were opened for ...
Agenda 21, the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development, and the Statement of principles for the Sustainable Management of Forests were adopted by more than 178 Governments at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 3 to 14 June 1992. The Commission on Sustainable Development ...
Twenty years later, at the historic Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 1992, the United Nations sought to help Governments rethink economic development and find ways to stop polluting the ...
