| Martin W. Holdgate - Business & Economics - 1996 - 372 pages
...gatherings like the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment, held in Stockholm in 1972, and the UN Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro in June 1992. It led to shelf-loads of books and research papers and whole hot-air balloons full of political,... | |
| Diplomatic and consular service, American - 1992 - 374 pages
...political science. Office of Public Communications: The staff prepared material for the President's trip to the UN Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro in June . . . Public affairs officer STEPHEN C. JOHNSON has resigned from the Department. He will accompany... | |
| Felix Dodds - Nature - 1997 - 308 pages
...Such commitments have been most fully expressed in Agenda 21 and the Rio Declaration, both agreed at the UN Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro in 1992. Since that Summit, the UN has made the necessary arrangements for a high level Commission on Sustainable... | |
| Chris J. R. Roche - Business & Economics - 1999 - 334 pages
...and lobbying on specific issues, and the NGO presence at major international events — such as the Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, the Conference on Population and Development in Cairo in 1994, the Copenhagen Social Summit in 1995, and... | |
| Michael Mason - Nature - 1999 - 282 pages
...the Brundtland Report (World Commission on Environment and Development, 1987) and the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, the idea of sustainable development has provoked environmental economists into considering the distribution... | |
| Gordon Conway - Nature - 1998 - 358 pages
...in a sequence which included the World Summit for Children in New York in 1990, the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, the International Conference on Population and Development in Cairo in 1 994, the World Summit for Social... | |
| Mary K. Meyer, Elisabeth Prügl - Political Science - 1999 - 332 pages
...male-dominated agendas of the non-women's UN conferences (both the NGO forums and the official conferences). At the UN Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro in l992 (known as the Earth Summit), women succeeded in inserting into the Plan of Action a chapter concerning... | |
| Aynsley Kellow - Law - 1999 - 238 pages
...International policies on chemical regulation are now being developed. Chapter 19 of Agenda 21, adopted at the UN Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro in June 1992, set out a plan of action for toxic chemicals. Subsequently, the Governing Council of the... | |
| Ken J. Walker, Kate Crowley - History - 1999 - 340 pages
...LOCAL The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (FCCC) was opened for signature at the UN Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro in June 1992. The Convention came into force in March 1994, and by November 1998 had been ratified by... | |
| Rhys Jenkins - Business & Economics - 2000 - 292 pages
...The concept of sustainable development, as defined in the Brundtland Report, was further refined at the UN Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro in 1992. The conference put sustainable development firmly on the global agenda and a paradigm shift in the way... | |
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