Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 13 June 2012 – At the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio-20), the secretariats of the Conventions on Biological Diversity, Climate Change and Desertification and the Global Environment Fund join forces in the Rio Convention Pavilion to promote the implementation of these three multilateral environmental agreements on sustainable development. In addition, important legally binding agreements (the Rio Convention) have been opened for signature: in order to ensure compliance with the Rio Agreements (in particular the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development and Agenda 21), The Earth Summit delegates have established the Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD). In 2013, the CSD was replaced by the High-Level Policy Forum on Sustainable Development, which meets annually as part of ECOSOC meetings and every four years as part of the General Assembly. Critics point out that many of the agreements reached in Rio have not been implemented on such fundamental issues as the fight against poverty and environmental clean-up. Twenty years later, partners from around the world are back in Rio de Janeiro to take stock of how these agreements have enabled the world to meet the challenges of climate change, biodiversity loss and the fight against desertification and soil degradation. First published in 1993. The United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), held in Rio de Janeiro in June 1992, was a unique event in international affairs. The “Earth Summit” brought together more heads of state and government than any other meeting, and five separate agreements were signed by most participating governments. It was seen as the world`s greatest opportunity to address the pressing problems of persistent poverty and environmental degradation and to establish sustainable development around the world. Thirty thousand people descended on the city, and the summit received a fire from the public all over the world. This book presents an important summary and analysis of UNCED. He explains the context of the conference, its great achievements and disappointments and the legacy it has left.
In some chapters, each of the five main agreements signed in Rio is subject to a thorough review, briefly describing the substance of the negotiations, the analysis of the final text and the likely effects. This title will be of great interest to environmental studies students. One of the great achievements of the summit was an agreement on the climate convention, which culminated in the Kyoto Protocol and the Paris Agreement. Another agreement was “not to conduct activities on aboriginal lands that cause environmental degradation or that would be culturally inappropriate.” United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCUDE), Parnom Earth Summit, Rio de Janeiro Conference in Brazil (June 3-14, 1992) to reconcile global economic development with environmental protection. The Earth Summit was the largest meeting of world heads of state and government since 1992, attended by 117 heads of state and representatives of 178 nations. Through treaties and other documents signed at the conference, most nations around the world have nominally committed to seeking economic development in a way that would protect the planet`s environment and non-renewable resources. Braulio Ferreira de Souza Dias, Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, said: “We cannot afford to wait any longer to meet the challenges of climate change, land degradation and biodiversity loss through concerted action at the global, national and local levels.