3. Brief idea on it…
• The United Nations Conference on Environment
and Development (UNCED), also known as the
Rio Summit, Rio Conference, Earth Summit was a
major united-Nations conference held in Rio de
Janeiro from 3 June to 14 June 1992.
• In 2012, the United Nations Conference on
Sustainable Development was also be held in Rio,
and is also commonly called Rio+20 or Rio Earth
Summit 2012. was held June 20-22nd.
4. Who were present ??????
• 172 governments participated, with 108
sending their heads of state or
government.Some 2,400 representatives
of non-governmental organizations (NGOs)
attended, with 17,000 people at the parallel
NGO "Global Forum" (a.k.a. Forum Global),
who had Consultative Status.
5. What was the result ??????
• An important achievement was an agreement on
the Climate Change Convention which in turn led to
the Kyoto Protocol. Another agreement was to "not
carry out any activities on the lands of indigenous
peoples that would cause environmental
degradation or that would be culturally inappropriate".
• The Convention on Biological Diversity was opened for
signature at the Earth Summit, and made a start
towards redefinition of measures that did not
inherently encourage destruction of natural
ecoregions and so-called uneconomic growth.
6. Green economy
• The green economy is one that results in
improved human well-being and social equity,
while significantly reducing environmental
risks and ecological scarcities. Green economy
is an economy or economic
development model based on sustainable
development and a knowledge of ecological
economics.
7. What comes under green economy ???
• Green economy includes green energy generation
based on renewable energy to substitute
for fossil fuels and energy
conservation for efficient energy use.
• Renewable energy(solar, wind,
geothermal, marine including wave, biogas,
and fuel cell)
• Green buildings (green
retrofits for energy and water efficiency,
residential and commercial assessment; green
products and materials, and LEED construction)
9. Where was it held ???
• The United Nations Conference on
Environment and Development (UNCED) took
place in 1992 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
10. Who were present ???????
• Government officials from 178 countries and
between 20,000 and 30,000 individuals from
governments, NGOs and the media
participated in this event to discuss solutions
for global problems such as poverty, war or
the growing gap between industrialised and
developing countries.
11. What did they talk about ??? [1]
• The UN summit focused on three broad concepts:
An "Earth Charter" covering a number of
principles aiming at development and the
protection of the environment, was the first focus
for discussion. Secondly, "Agenda 21" was
intended to be a global action plan for
sustainable development; thirdly, developing
countries demanded a substantial increase in
new funding from developed countries to
contribute to sustainable development in the
South.
12. What did they talk about ??? [2]
• Negotiations attempted to reach agreements at
least on the broad outlines of several conventions
covering climate change, biological
diversity, forests etc. Especially representatives
from developing countries emphasised at Rio the
importance of their right to economic
development, which goes together with growing
impacts on the environment, so that
industrialised countries have a special
responsibility for the realisation of the global
environmental goals stated at UNCED.
13. What did they do after it ???
• The years after UNCED/Rio have seen a series of global
UN conferences dealing with action plans for human
development. While UNCED delivered an agenda for
sustainable development, governments met in 1994 for
the Cairo Conference on Population and Development;
in 1995 for the Copenhagen Social Development
Summit and the Beijing Conference on Women and
Development; in 1996 the Istanbul conference on
Human Settlements and the Food Summit in Rome. In
addition, there have been many agreements
covering climate, biodiversity,desertification, access to
information, persistent organic pollutants (POP) etc.
14. Did the implement it ???
• It is apparent that governments have not been
implementing the plans for action UNCED and
the following conferences and agreements
have (or should have) produced. As the world
faces a dangerous and uncertain ecological
future, governments are lacking true
commitment to the sustainable development
agenda.
