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Earth Summit: see United Nations Conference on Environment and Development United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) or Earth Summit, an 11-day meeting held in June, 1992, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to discuss the global conflict between economic development and environmental protection.
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officially United Nations Conference on Environment and Development

Conference held in Rio de Janeiro (June 3–14, 1992) to reconcile worldwide economic development with environmental protection. It was the largest gathering of world leaders in history, with 117 heads of state and representatives of 178 countries. Biodiversity, global warming, sustainable development, and preservation of tropical rain forests were among the topics discussed. Five international agreements were signed amid tensions between the industrialized countries of the North and the poorer developing states of the South, who were reluctant to accept environmental restrictions without increased Northern economic aid. Follow-up meetings were held in 1997 at the UN General Assembly in New York and in 2002 in Johannesburg, S.Af. See also Rio Treaty.

After the 1992 Rio Earth Summit, frustrations with lack of regulatory control for industry grew, according to Maia Becker, manager of communications and client services, FSC Canada.

Sustainability 101: twelve years after a first meeting in a church ... by Larmour, Adelle / Northern Ontario Business

Nevertheless, the World Bank has doled out US$11 billion for 128 fossil fuel ventures since the 1992 Rio Earth Summit, according to the IPS report, "A Wrong Turn from Rio.

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Another young woman, Rowenna Davis from London, saved more than 2,000 [pounds sterling] to produce 10,000 posters with environmental messages, which she and friends pasted around London on a single night at the time of the Earth Summit in Johannesburg.

Twelve Principles: Living with integrity in the twenty-first century by Headley, Sue / Youth Studies Australia

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