UN Conference on Environment and Development

This represents a diluted (and legally unenforceable) consensus on forest management which resulted from earlier (1990-1991) attempts to formulate a global forest convention. The principles assert the sovereign right of individual countries to profit from their forest resources but advocate that this should take place within a framework of forest protection, conservation and management.  

This has its origins in the UN Conference on the Human Environment, Stockholm in 1972. It is a statement of 27 principles upon which the nations have agreed to base their actions in dealing with environment and development issues. 

This is a 40-chapter action plan for sustainable development. It established tasks, targets, costs, etc., for actions which combine economie development and environmental proteetion. In many nations, e g. the UK, the suggestions of Agenda 21 have been incorporated into local, regional and national development strategies. It led to the establishment of the UN Commission on Sustainable Development in 1992. 

Other initiatives imder the auspices of the UN/UNEP have foeussed on climatic change and are examined in Section 7.7. Another formal 

The mission of the Earth Charter is to establish a sound ethical foundation for the emerging global society and to help build a sustainable world based on respect for nature, universal human rights, economic justice, and a culture of peace. 

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The recommendations of the 1992 UN Conference on Environment and Development and the subsequent establishment of the Intergovernmental Forum on Chemical Safety with the priorities for action in the six programme areas of Chapter 19, Agenda 21, all lend further weight to the need for EHC assessments of the risks of chemicals. 

Major areas of harmonization work arose from the United Nations (UN) Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) held in 1992, and the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development. Agenda 21, Chapter 19, the blueprint for the environmentally sound management of toxic chemicals under the principles of sustainable development, has guided most international and national chemical-related activities. Chapter 19 is the agreed upon, endorsed international program of... 

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The Earth Summit, also known as the UN Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), was held in Rio de Janeiro to reconcile worldwide economic development with protecting the environment. The Summit brought together 117 heads of states and representatives of 178 nations, who agreed to work towards the sustainable development of the planet. 

This way, the report became the catalyst for global thinking processes about the relationship between man and nature and about future prospects of mankind in the potentially conflicting contexts of ethics, state policies and social, ecological and economical interests." In 1992, the UN Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), more commonly known as the... 

The next major event in sustainable development was the 1992 UN Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) that took place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, also known as the 1992 Rio Earth Summit. This was the second worldwide meeting for discussing the nexus of environment and development. During this important event, the triple bottom line of Environment—Society—Economy (the three pillars of sustainable development) was adopted into international agreements related to climate change, biodiversity, and a unified declaration of environment and development. This was summarized in a global sustainable development action plan called Agenda 21 and in the Rio Declaration (27 principles for sustainable development). Some of the content of US conservation and environmental law coincided with those described by many of the principles of the Rio Declaration. 

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