2. 1972 -UNEP United Nations Environment Programme
An organisation under United Nations (1972)
The United Nations General Assembly elects the UNEP
governing council members
HQ – Nairobi ,Kenya
Two programmes
Earth watch : constant surveillance on environment
Global Environment outlook(GEO): publishes this report
Late 80’s ,Worked on a draft agreement (Nairobi
conference)
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17. 1992 Earth Summit
Mission Earth summit’s
result
Outcome
1. Protect Biodiversity CBD 1 Aichi Targets
2 Cartagena Protocol on Bio safety
3 Nagoya Protocol on Genetic
Resources
2 Reverse Climate Change UNFCC 1 Kyoto Protocol
2 Copenhagen Accord
3 Promote Sustainable
Development
UNCCD 1 Agenda 21
2 RIO +20
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24. COP-MOP 1 - 23-27 February 2004, Kuala Lumpur,
Malaysia
COP-MOP 2 - 30 May-3 June 2005, Montreal, Canada
COP-MOP 3 - 13-17 March 2006, Curitiba, Brazil
COP-MOP 4 - 12 - 16 May 2008, Bonn, Germany
COP-MOP 5 - 11 - 15 October 2010, Nagoya, Japan
COP-MOP 6 - 1-5 October 2012, Hyderabad, India
COP-MOP 7 - 29-3 Sept-Oct 2014 , Pyeongchang,
Republic of Korea
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35. Strategic goal A
Address the causes of biodiversity loss
Strategic Goal B:
Reduce the direct pressure on biodiversity and
promote sustainable use
Strategic Goal C
Safeguard ecosystems, species and genetic diversity
Strategic Goal D
Biodiversity benefits to all
Strategic Goal E
Participatory planning, capacity building
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57. Agenda 21 is a non-binding, voluntarily implemented
action plan of the United Nations with regard
to sustainable development
establish guidelines for local cultural policies,
something comparable to what Agenda 21 was for the
environment. They are to be included in various
subsections of Agenda 21 and will be carried out
through a wide range of sub-programs beginning
with. G8 countries
58. Rio +20, future we want
By this conference UN wanted to bring together
governments, international institutions and major
(NGO) groups to agree on a range of smart measures
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poverty reduction
clean energy
Sustainable development. And this Sustainable
Development has three pillars
economic development,
social development
environmental protection.
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64. The Convention addresses specifically the arid, semi-
arid and dry sub-humid areas, known as the drylands,
where some of the most vulnerable ecosystem and
people can be found.
Parties to the Convention further specified their
goals: "to forge a global partnership to reverse and
prevent desertification/land degradation and to
mitigate the effects of drought in affected areas in order
to support poverty reduction and environmental
sustainability".
65. To improve the living conditions for people in dry
lands, to maintain and restore land and soil
productivity, and to mitigate the effects of drought.
bottom-up approach
The implementation of the UNCCD is geared
around five regional implementation annexes:
Annex 1 for Africa,
Annex 2 for Asia,
Annex 3 for Latin America and the Caribbean,
Annex 4 for Northern Mediterranean
Annex 5 for Central and Eastern Europe.
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83. 1971 : Ramsar Convention , Convention
on wetlands of international Importance
is an international treaty for the conservation and
sustainable utilization of wetlands.
Presently there are 168 contracting parties