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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

' 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.

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 .

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.

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?

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

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).

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.

Even when the Rio 20 agenda includes something more properly environmental say, the supply of water platitudes predominate.

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.

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

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).

I have come to think it's one of the most powerful brain systems on earth for both great joy and great sorrow.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

At Rio 20 we will have to say so, clearly, decisively, and in a way that leads to problem solving and action, not to bickering and defensiveness.

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.

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

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.

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

Care was being taken to insert an environmental dimension into national economic planning in accordance with Agenda 21 adopted by the Earth Summit.

The Olympic Village Río2016.

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.

Wrongheaded in Rio

As the recently released report Towards a Green Economy Pathways to Sustainable Development and Poverty Eradication shows, the market economy as currently constituted has resulted in the misallocation of capital on an unprecedented scale.

According to the Ministry of Education, the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro is the best private university in the country, and behind only the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro in the State of Rio de Janeiro.

Representation at meetings of the other Rio conventions

GENEVA At the upcoming Rio 20 summit in Brazil, more than 135 heads of state and government, and up to 50,000 participants, including business executives and civil society representatives, will come together to express their collective commitment to advance inclusive, sustainable development.