...done if we are to accomplish the President's goal of signing a framework convention on climate change by the UN Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro. But even the modest progress made to date reflects the hallmarks of the Administration's policies....

...in every country. All are affected; all must be involved. F o R all the reasons already elaborated, the UN Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro in June 1992 — the Earth Summit — comes not a moment too soon; our concern should be whether in at...

...population's basic needs are met. The work was also a contribution to discussions at the Earth Summit (the UN Conference on Environment and Development) in Rio de Janeiro in June 1992 about how national sustainable development policies fit within broader regional and global...

...own needs" and was accepted as a goal by more than 160 nations including the US at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro in 1992. The President has appointed a Commission on Sustainable Development to help this nation chart a path toward...

...protection are inseparable. Agenda 21, the programme of action for sustainable development adopted at the UN Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, is also an agenda for the IDA, particularly as the relationship between development and environmental...

...conclusion of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, which was opened for signature during the UN Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro, in June 1992. One of the notable outcomes of UNCED '92 was the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development....

...organizations like the European Community (ECl and the UN. The climax of this phase might be seen to be the UN Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro in June 1992. 1t is clear that green parties have already profoundly affected the environmental performance...

...topics, medical geographers have an ethical responsibility, just like epidemiologists. In preparation for the UN Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro in June 1992, the WHO Commission on Health and Environment drew up a report, Our Planet Our Health, which...

...on the international policy agenda. Agenda 21. The Convention on Biological Diversity, laid before the UN Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, has been signed and ratified by most Asian countries. Although freshwater ecosystems are not mentioned...

...environment as an issue of global concern has also been of considerable significance, culminating in the UN Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro in 1992. Here the interests of the Third World were clearly at odds with those of the First World and of the...