Look at the Rio Earth Summit that happened just last week, or the Mexican G20, also last week.

The problem is certainly not a lack of commitments, including those made at the Rio Earth Summit in 1992.

COPENHAGEN Tens of thousands of people will soon gather in Rio de Janeiro for the United Nations Earth Summit.

As the Rio Declaration, adopted at the first Earth Summit in 1992, states Women have a vital role in environmental management and development.

He went 3,000 miles on an odyssey to Rio to the Earth Summit to tell the world what was happening in his tiny, little corner.

The United Nations established an Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee, which drafted and adopted the treaty that was opened for signature at the 1992 Rio Earth Summit.

The Convention was opened for signature at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro on 5 June 1992 and entered into force on 29 December 1993.

Governments are once again on the Road to Rio for a summit in June 2012 aptly referred to as Rio 20.

NEW YORK The United Nations Rio 20 Earth Summit this month will be a staging ground to chart the course for inclusive economies, social equality, and environmental protection.

In fact, the United Nations Rio 20 Conference on Sustainable Development is about pet projects of all and sundry many of them tangential to the major environmental issues, such as climate change, that were the principal legacy of the original Rio Earth Summit.

Ministers and Government Representatives agree to build upon the results and agreements reached at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro (1992), the Millennium Declaration and the Millennium Development Goals (2000), and the World Summit on Sustainable Development (2002).

Those attending the Rio 20 Summit should embrace this promising, if awkward, strategic opportunity.

The Rio Declaration, issued at the Earth Summit in 1992, recognizes a responsibility to ensure that activities do not damage other states environment or that of areas beyond the limits of national jurisdiction.

' Precautionary approach One of the outcomes of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (also known as the Earth Summit) held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in June 1992, was the adoption of the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development, which contains 27 principles to underpin sustainable development.

In 1992, the Rio de Janeiro Earth Summit gave credence to this approach by recommending that water management be decentralized, with farmers and other stakeholders playing a more important role in managing natural resources.

At the political level, the UN is the meeting place for 193 member states to negotiate and create international law, as in the important treaty on climate change adopted at the Rio Earth Summit in 1992.

UN Conferences Habitat II, Istanbul, 1996 Rio 5, NY, 1997 Vienna 5 1998 ICPD Cairo 5, 1999 Millennium Summit, NY, 2000 Rio 10, Johannesburg, 2002 Vienna 10, Geneva, 2003 (UN Frame Work).

At the Rio summit in 1992, we promised to cut emissions by 2000, yet overshot the target by 12 .

The grades for implementation of the three great treaties signed at the first Rio Earth Summit in 1992 were as follows Climate Change F Biological Diversity F and Combating Desertification F. Can humanity still avoid getting itself expelled?

Last year, at the United Nations Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, world leaders agreed to create a set of universal Sustainable Development Goals, which would change the playing field for future economic policy to safeguard our life support system.

If that were politically possible, it would have been done a long time ago if not at the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, then in Kyoto 12 years later and if not in Kyoto, then in Copenhagen last December.

One of the key agreements adopted at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, the Earth Summit , in Rio de Janeiro was the Convention on Biological Diversity, which addresses the issue of biosafety in its articles 8 and 19.

This is at odds with the EU s proclamations since the 1999 Rio summit that Latin America is a vital political and economic partner.

As our heads of State reiterated at the Rio Group Summit last November, the stabilization, reconstruction and development of Haiti are regional priorities.

The agreements that emerged in 1992 at the first Rio summit were good ones thoughtful, far sighted, public spirited, and focused on global priorities.

Aid for the environment averaged about 2 billion per year far short of what the international community, first at the Rio Summit in 1992 and then at the Johannesburg Summit ten years later, said was needed.

Further attempts to sustainably manage the marine environment emerged 10 years after the Rio meeting, at the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg, South Africa.

SANTIAGO One of the recurrent themes at the United Nations spectacularly unsuccessful Rio 20 summit in June was the need to change how we measure wealth.

The developed nations promised to pay reparations for their past sins at the Rio de Janeiro summit in 1992 but kept deferring their obligations by negotiating.

In 1992, when the world s governments first promised to address man made global warming, they also vowed to head off the human induced extinction of other species. The Convention on Biological Diversity, agreed at the Rio Earth Summit, established that biological diversity is a common concern of humanity.

NAIROBI With just weeks to go before the Rio 20 Earth Summit, many are speculating about how many world leaders will show up and what kind of agreements they might reach on the key agenda items creating a green economy and establishing an international framework for sustainable development.

Politicians have failed to implement properly the treaties adopted at the 1992 Earth Summit.

The third Earth Observation Summit had been held on 16 February 2005 in Brussels.

NEW YORK One of the world s pre eminent scientific publications, Nature, has just issued a scathing report card in advance of next week s Rio 20 summit on sustainable development.

Wrongheaded in Rio

The world s governments have recently agreed to move to a new framework for sustainable development, declaring their intention to adopt Sustainable Development Goals at the Rio 20 Summit in June.

More than ten years after the Earth Summit and two years after the 2002 Johannesburg Summit, the destruction of the environment was continuing at the global level.

RIO DE JANEIRO Last month, the leaders of all 12 countries of South America (except one) gathered in Quito, Ecuador s capital, for the summit of the Union of South American Nations.

A Rio Report Card

The High Stakes of Rio 20

This work was conceived in 1983, and construction was announced by the Finnish government at the 1992 Earth Summit.

Rio de Janeiro is where soccer belongs.

It lies across Guanabara Bay from the city of Rio de Janeiro and forms part of the Rio de Janeiro Metropolitan Area.

The Rio Group considered that the 2005 World Summit Outcome provided a base from which the United Nations must continue to work, and committed itself to participating in the development and implementation of the mandates contained therein.

This is at odds with the EU s proclamations since the 1999 Rio summit that Latin America is a vital political and economic partner. A change in Europe s approach is needed if a strategic partnership is to be created.