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Summary: In 1992, more than 170 countries came together at the Rio Earth Summit and agreed to pursue sustainable development, protect biological diversity, prevent dangerous interference with climate systems, and [...]

Byline: John Muchangi Dec 04, 2015 (The Star/All Africa Global Media via COMTEX) -- The Unep in Nairobi is mourning the founding director Maurice Strong, who died last week aged [...]

(From New Straits Times (Malaysia)) Byline: Salleh Buang RECENT adverse reports on the environment - about smelly water, leaking landfills, polluted waterways, dead rivers, denuded hills, mudslides, flash floods and [...]

Well over a decade ago, a motley pack of 'have-nots' of the world, involved in a face-off with the 'haves' at a global forum, were being led by an Indian. [...]

NEW YORK -- The following information was released by the United Nations: The United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development will conclude its two decades of efforts to promote sustainability at [...]

RIO DE JANEIRO, June 21 (UPI) -- 'Time is not on our side' to make economic growth and social progress truly serve humanity, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said at the Brazil [...]

Summary: The adoption of the controversial concept of a 'green economy' was to have been the big story out of Rio+20, the UN Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. [...]

Summary: RIO DE JANEIRO, 20 June 2012 (IRIN) - The adoption of the controversial concept of a 'green economy' was to have been the big story out of Rio+20, the [...]

Summary: RIO DE JANEIRO, 20 June 2012 (IRIN) - The adoption of the controversial concept of a 'green economy' was to have been the big story out of Rio+20, the [...]

RIO DE JANEIRO, June 20 (UPI) -- A draft green-development text that U.N. Earth summit delegates agreed on before world leaders arrived Wednesday is trivial and empty, a European official [...]

COLLEGE PARK, Md. -- The following information was released by the University of Maryland - College Park: Addressing the linked global challenges of economic development, access to clean water and [...]

BUJUMBURA, Mar 21, 2012 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Burundian Second Vice-President Gervais Rufyikiri officially launched the national process for the preparation of the Rio+20 Earth Summit due in Rio de [...]

BRASILIA, Jul 01, 2011 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Sustainable development, poverty eradication to be Brazil's top concerns for Rio+20 conference Sustainable development and poverty eradication may be the main topics [...]

ENPNewswire-22 March 2010-African Development Bank Group - World Water Day, 22 March: Clean Water for a Healthy World(C)2010 ENPublishing - http://www.enpublishing.co.uk Release date- 19032010 - The international observance of World [...]

JERUSALEM, Israel -- The following information was released by Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs: International Water Day, an initiative that grew out of the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment [...]

Byline: Ademola Adeyemo Lagos, Feb 06, 2007 (This Day/All Africa Global Media via COMTEX) -- The international observance of World Water Day is an initiative that grew out of the […]

A week after government leaders from around the world trooped in by the dozens to assess the global environment five years after the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, the […]

FIVE years ago, in the largest gathering of its kind in history, world leaders meeting at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro signed binding treaties designed to prevent dangerous […]

As the fifth anniversary of the Rio Earth Summit meeting approaches, environmental ministers from 53 countries plan to open talks at the United Nations tomorrow on setting new targets in […]

After years of Brazilian Government claims that stricter environmental laws had slowed destruction of the Amazon rain forest, newly issued figures show that deforestation has actually increased sharply since the […]

Four years after the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro propelled the environment to the top of the world agenda, the movement seems to have reached an impasse here at […]

Three years after Brazil was host to the Earth Summit, shepherding ambitious international accords on biodiversity and climate change, burnings in the Amazon region appear to be approaching the worst […]

Three years after Brazil was host to the Earth Summit, shepherding ambitious international accords on biodiversity and climate change, burnings in the Amazon region appear to be approaching the worst […]

According to ANBA: Sudanese and Algerian representatives expressed their support to the proposals laid out by the G77 countries at Rio+20's high-level meeting, which opened this Wednesday (20th) in Rio [...]

Sustainable Prosperity and the Ottawa University's Institute of the Environment are marking the 20th anniversary of the Rio Earth Summit by presenting a two-day conference to examine the policy and [...]

Industrialists have been meeting in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, prior to the opening of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (Earth Summit). Those present have been expressing the view that environmental protection need not be bad for business and that tough regulations need to be imposed. US businessmen also agree although the US is known to disagree with such legislation. A report from the Business Council for Sustainable Development wants partnerships between government and industry, payments for natural resource use and tough penalties for polluters.

Negotiations at the Rio summit on June 1, 1992 are in jeopardy because of the US's refusal to draw up targets to reduce the quantity of carbon dioxide emissions. The International Negotiating Committee (INC) is attempting to formulate commitments for the reduction of gasses. Developing countries argue that industrialized countries should take the lead because they produce three-fourths of the world's carbon dioxide emissions.