| Timothy J. B. Boyle, B. Boontawee - 1995 - 407 pages
...conservation coming from international agencies. The 1987 Report led to preparations for holding the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) in Rio de Janeiro in June 1992. A series of preparatory meetings, or PREPCOM meetings, were held at governmental level, beginning in... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources - 1995 - 276 pages
...consistent with our Government's commitment to honor the treaties signed with other nations after the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) in Rio de Janeiro in 1992. Based on this conference, the US signed treaties with other nations which require us to continually... | |
| Michael Painter, William H. Durham - 1995 - 292 pages
...press, and international environmental groups.12 Their growing renown was recognized at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, where they received a Global 500 award, which was accepted by one of their campesino/ artisanal... | |
| John F. Fitzgerald - 1995 - 238 pages
...Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the adoption of Agenda 21 at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) in Rio de Janeiro in 1992 marked a turning point in international efforts to protect the atmosphere and provided a new focus... | |
| United Nations Environment Programme - 1995 - 426 pages
...proper perspective. It is also important to note at the outset that since the convening of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, and the establishment of the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD), it has... | |
| Eric Fawcett, Hanna Newcombe - 1995 - 356 pages
...of the parallel debates that were taking place in the preparatory meetings leading up to the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, as well as the inter-governmental negotiations for a Framework Convention on Climate Change and... | |
| DIANE Publishing Company - 1995 - 206 pages
...natural resources and the environment is contributing to these poor conditions and vice versa. The United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) in Rio de Janeiro, in the summer of 1992, solidified international support for the concept of sustainable development —... | |
| K. Puttaswamaiah - 1996 - 340 pages
...lives. By increasing their human capital, it has a lasting influence on the future as well. The United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) in Rio de Janeiro in June 1992 has provided leaders with an opportunity to degree on a strategy for environmentally responsible development... | |
| L.J.G. Van der Maesen, X.M. van der Burgt, J.M. van Medenbach de Rooy - 1996 - 882 pages
...Printed in the Netherlands. 295 The AETFAT meeting in Wageningen is the first meeting after the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) in Rio de Janeiro in 1992. An integral part of that conference was the Convention on Biological Diversity. For many biologists... | |
| F. Oosterhuis, F. Rubik, G. Scholl - 1996 - 328 pages
...Environment and Development (WCED) in 1987 (Brundtland Report Our Common Future 1987) and the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) in Rio de Janeiro in 1992 paved the way for intensive international discussion on the foreseen shift towards sustainability.... | |
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