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This year, the 2012 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD, or Rio +20) marks the fortieth anniversary of the 1972 UN Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm, the twentieth anniversary of the 1992 UN Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro and the tenth anniversary of the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg. As part of the preparations for Rio +20, the five UN Regional Economic Commissions convened regional preparatory meetings. These regional meetings have become de rigueur in the run-up to international conferences or summits. This article examines the regional contribution to Rio +20 by looking at the history of the UN Regional Economic Commissions and their role in preparing for the global sustainable development conferences, with specific emphasis on the Rio +20 process, and how the regional preparatory meetings examined some of the major issues on the agenda. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Abstract: In June 2012 the international community will commemorate “Stockholm+40” at the “Rio+20” Summit to be convened in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil. Originating during times of preparations for the Stockholm Conference (1972), the MAB Programme was an early experiment in the movement of international scientific co-operation towards an intergovernmental environmental arena. Compared to the 14 projects that constituted MAB in the 1970s and the early 1980s, today''s Programme is concentrated on a range of research, education, monitoring and demonstration projects and initiatives in biosphere reserves. The World Network of Biosphere Reserves now counts 580 places in 114 countries and will continue to expand over the next decade. It provides a significant opportunity for the MAB Programme to promote research, learning and experimentation and collective action for sustainable development in land/seascapes located within particular cultural and political contexts. In using a global network of experimental sites for sustainability the MAB Programme may open intergovernmental environmental relations to closer collaboration with sub-national levels of government where more and more resource use and conservation decisions are made. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

El artículo enfoca en la situación del medio ambiente humano desde la Conferencia de las Naciones Unidas de Estocolmo, Suecia en 1972. Se analiza la degradación ambiental como un efecto del desarrollo económico. Según el autor, el desarrollo económico siempre tiene prioridad sobre los problemas medioambientales. Se examina el uso de recursos alternativos, citando la influencia de la Conferencia de Rio de Janeiro, Brasil en 1992 organizada por las Naciones Unidas sobre el medio ambiente.

The article examines the environmental rights and the obligations of Brazil in the inter-American human rights system. It states that the link between environmental rights and human rights are apparent to those who attended the U.N. Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm, Sweden in June 1972. It finds that the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights articulated broad range of state obligation despite the lack of environment references of almost all the American normative instruments. In addition, the Organization of American States (OAS) bodies globally insisted the procedural rights of information, access of justice, and public participation. Despite the disputes, OAS members cannot ignore the deteriorating condition of the environment and still fulfill their obligations.