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Rio Earth Summit
The United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), also known as the "Earth Summit," was held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1992. The Earth Summit (held on the 20th anniversary of the first U.N. Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm 1972) made history by bringing global attention to the understanding that environment protection and natural resource management were closely linked to economic and social conditions, such as poverty. It recognized that social, environmental, and economic needs must be met in a balance with each other for sustainable outcomes in the long term. It captured this concept in the term "sustainable development" defined as ". . . development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs."
This concept of sustainable development was proclaimed as a workable objective for everyone around the world, whether at the sub-national (e.g., local, regional, state, etc.), national, or international levels. The concept started a lively debate among governments, and between governments and their citizens, on how to achieve sustainability.
President George H.W. Bush participated in the Earth Summit and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator William Reilly led the U.S. delegation.
The Earth Summit produced:
The Rio Declaration on Environment and Development: A set of 27 principles to help guide international action on the basis of environmental, social and economic responsibility;
Agenda 21: A broad ranging program of voluntary actions (or blueprint) on how to make development socially, economically, and environmentally sustainable - a guide for business and government policies and for personal choices;
Statement of Forest Principles: a set of 15 non-legally binding principles governing national and international policy for the protection, management and utilization of global forest resources;
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, also known as the Kyoto Protocol, and the Convention on Biological Diversity; and
United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD): An institutional outcome established to monitor effective implementation of Agenda 21.
The CSD consistently generates a high level of interest; over 50 Ministers attend the annual sessions. A five-year review was held in June 1997 in which President Clinton participated. The CSD is serving as the central organizing body for the 2002 World Summit.
World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD)
The WSSD, in part, is the 10-year review of progress achieved in implementation of Agenda 21, consequently often called "Rio + 10". It is seeking to reinvigorate, at the highest political level, the global commitment to sustainable development and its implementation at the local, regional, national, and international levels.
The Summit will not open Agenda 21 for revision, but will rather seek consensus on the current conditions and on priorities for further action. The agenda may include discussions on particular sectors (e.g., forests, oceans, energy, fresh water, agriculture, education) as well as cross-sectoral issues (e.g., finance, globalization, capacity building, technology transfer).
Participants will be governments, multilateral financial institutions, United Nations agencies, citizen groups, business and industry, environmental organizations, and others. Citizen participation will be organized around the nine "major groups" as identified in Agenda 21 (business and industry, scientists, women, non-governmental organizations, indigenous people, youth, trade unions, state and local governments, and farmers) and include formal "Multistakeholder Dialogues" on specific topics.
What does the worthless and ignored 1992 Rio Earth Summit have to do with illegal immigration?
That summit was Gore's bag, not Bush's.
Why bring up emvironmentalist wacko stuff on an illegal immigration thread? You are asking for trouble from the illegal immigration posters. They have been admonished for posting illegal immigration rants on other threads; they won't take kindly to posting 1992 Earth Summit crap on their illegal immigration thread.
That has exactly what to do with illegal immigrants?