The 1992 summit coined the phrase "eco-efficiency" in the pursuit of sustainable development. This, so it was hoped, would transform industry from a system that takes, makes, and wastes into one that integrates economic, environmental and ethical concerns. Essentially, eco-efficiency means doing ...
Compared with 1992, when the historic Earth Summit took place, "the challenges facing humanity today are much the same, only larger", wrote UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in an opinion piece published in the New York Times last month. Some 50000 delegates are expected to reconvene in Rio...
Rio +20 should be a time of reflection and decision. Despite considerable institution building since the UNCED in 1992, many sustainability issues, including climate change, biodiversity loss, poverty, and access to basic human needs (e.g., clean water and sewerage treatment), remain. Rio +20...
The Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, which brought together 118 heads of state and government, ended on June 14 with both hope and deep disappointment. Gro Harlem Brundtland, Prime Minister of Norway, expressed those feelings succinctly when she said that the United Nations Conference on Environmen...
Rio+20 is a unique opportunity to make the “change-of-course” called for by business leaders at the Earth Summit in 1992. It requires fundamental changes in the way in which we manage the activities through which we impact on the Earth’s sustainability. This will require a degree of co...
now using resources faster than ever, we continue with an upwards trajectory of greenhouse gas emissions and the crisis associated with climate change has kicked in. This means that the Rio+20 Summit is more important than ever. And yet, its impact is going to be severely limited …Read ...
The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD): Signed by 150 government leaders at the 1992 Rio Earth Summit, the Convention seeks to develop national strategies for the conservation and sustainable use of biological diversity. It recognizes that biological diversity is about more than plants, animals...
The United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), also known as the Earth Summit, took place in Rio de Janeiro, , from June 2-14, 1992. It was held twenty years after the took place in Stockholm, Sweden. Government of... LACJ Cleveland - 《United Nations》 被引量:...
E、The idea of the SDGs was launched in June 2012 at the Rio Earth Summit. F、MDGs were highly unsuccessful in bringing down the rate of poverty over a period of 25 years. G、Three basic pillars of the SDGs are economic development, social inclusion and environmental sustainability. 点击...
aThe new paper is one of a package of articles on the global ecological situation released on Wednesday by the journal Nature as part of the lead-up to Rio+20, a global sustainability summit meeting in Rio de Janeiro. 在星期三新的纸是一个文章包裹在发布全球性生态学情况被学报自然作为一部分...