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

The signatories agreed to conserve biological diversity, by saving species and their habitats, and to use biological resources (e.g., forests) in a sustainable manner.

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

We must live up to the environmental commitments entered into at the Rio Summit.

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

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.

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 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.

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.

It was at the Rio Summit last year that the world was keenly awakened to this critical issue.

The Secretary General apos s report is optimistic about the various initiatives undertaken since the Rio Earth Summit in June 1992.

Rio and the events that followed gave our planet one more chance.

At the Earth Summit in Rio, we undertook to implement measures that would safeguard our natural habitat.

The promise made at the 1992 Rio Summit remains unfulfilled.

The Rio Summit and WSSD outcome helped members of the Organization to set up Integrity of Creation Centers in different parts of the world caring for planet Earth.

Indeed, this commitment was underscored at the Rio Summit in June 1992.

At the Rio Summit, the developed countries declared that the tropical forests belonged to the whole world.

The binding nature of this multilateral agreement is a positive step in the implementation of commitments made at the Rio Summit.

The establishment of that Commission is one of the most significant outcomes of the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro.

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.

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

Rio, if anyone cares about the environment, need not have been a bust, okay?

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.

The Marshall Islands was one of the first countries to ratify the Conventions adopted at the Rio Conference on the environment.

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.

Developments subsequent to the Rio summit have been closely observed by the Marshall Islands Government.

The national strategy, with several years apos experience behind it, has been bolstered by the recommendations of the Rio Summit.

My delegation therefore calls on the developed countries to fulfil the solemn commitments undertaken at the Rio Earth Summit.

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.

The first is how to take the resources out of the ground the economic processes, taking the resources out of the ground and putting assets on top of the ground.

At the Earth Summit in Rio last year we took part in the efforts for closer international cooperation on the environment.

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

The Rio Earth summit was an important milestone on the road to forging a global consensus on sustainable development.

The Earth Summit and Us 10 Years on the Way to Sustainable Development

So, it basically dwarfs, you know, Mount Everest here on Earth.

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.

' 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.

The Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro was an important step towards world partnership in combating those environmental threats.

Agenda 21, adopted at the Rio Earth Summit, provides a good basis for international cooperation and action.

The Committee has also cooperated with the United Nations following the Rio Conference on the Environment.

In 1992, the Rio de Janeiro Earth Summit set a new stage for global partnership on the environment and sustainable development.

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

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

The international community should reinforce the positive developments of the Rio Summit to promote the importance of safeguarding Antarctica and its impact on the global environment.

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.