UN Conference on Environment and Development
(Rio de Janeiro, 1992)
- Agenda 21 (Agenda for the 21st Century)
- is a global programme that committed 118 countries to environmental
restoration, preservation and social development. Their aims are to meet the
challenge of global warming, pollution, biodiversity and the inter-related
social problems of poverty, health and population.
- Agenda 21 and
the Rio Agreements
- Rio
Declaration on Environment and Development
- The United
Nations Environment Programme
- site in Norway features an index to Shanna L. Halpern's Environment
and Development: Process and Documentation, which explains the lengthy
preparatory process to Rio and "disentangles the complex web of UN
resolutions and other official documentation" that emerged from the "Earth
Summit."
- Earth Negotiations Bulletin
- is an independent reporting service published by the International
Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) that provides daily coverage of
negotiations on environment and development at the United Nations. Back issues
of ENB provide day-by-day coverage of
UNCED and
surrounding issues.
- A Human Rights Resource Packet
- linking elements of Agenda 21 to Existing Human Rights Norms and Standards.
Prepared for the Meeting of the Commission on Sustainable Development, "Countdown
to Earth Summit II," April 1997.
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