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One of the conclusions from the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro (the Earth Summit) was the urgent need to find a more sustainable way of life, based on careful use of resources and a reduction in environmental emissions. There was also a call to move towards a model in which environmental enhancement is fully integrated with economic development. The consequences of this summit have been far-reaching not least by the fact that, in Europe and elsewhere, environmental protection requirements are now integrated into many policies rather than being separate pieces of legislation. Indeed Article 2 of the EC treaty states that the Community shall. .. promote throughout the Community harmonious, balanced and sustainable development of economic activities This may be viewed as the first step towards... 

Note Report ofthe United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, Rio de Janeiro, 3-14 June 1992, (a) Rio Declaration on Environment and Development (b) Agenda 21 to be found at http //www.un.org/esa/sustdev. 

Today, reference to the PP can be found in several international agreements and declarations. However, the description of the PP that has had the greatest impact can be found in the Rio Declaration from the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) in Rio de Janeiro, and the Swedish government repeatedly referred to it when it proposed the Unified Environmental Code of 1998 to the Parliament. How- 51... 

An adequate supply of safe food is considered to be essential for everyone -more or less a right for all people. The United Nations Conference on Environment and Development at its meeting in Rio de Janeiro in 1992 adopted the Agenda 21 Strategy Document, which in Chapter 6 stresses specifically that particular attention should be directed towards food safety, with the priority placed on the elimination of food contamination.1... 

In 1992, the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (the Earth Summit) declared that the health of children is more severely affected by unhealthy environments than that of any other population group, that children are highly vulnerable to the effects of environmental degradation, and that their special susceptibilities need to be fully taken into account. 

A major amendment was made to the Japanese Chemical Substances Control Law in April 2004 on the recommendations made by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in the Environmental Conservation Review - Further Expansion of the Regulation Scope for Conservation of Ecosystem in line with the Agenda 21 - Human Action Program for Sustainable Development of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED). In order to conform to international harmonisation, the amended Chemical Substances Control Law has introduced a new examination and regulation system to prevent not only hazards to human health but also damages to animals and plants. 

Chemical safety gained significantly increased global visibility with the advent of the chemical safety Chapter 19 of Agenda 21 that emerged from the 1992 Rio meeting of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED). This chapter addressed six substantive areas ... 

The scope of the GHS is based on the mandate from the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) for development of such a system as stated in paragraphs 26 and 27 of the Agenda 21, Chapter 19, Programme Area B, reproduced below ... 

In 1992, the US government ratified the precautionary principle by signing the Rio Declaration of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development. Article 15 of the Rio Declaration says, In order to protect the environment, the precautionary approach shall be widely applied by States [nations] according to their capabilities. Where there are threats of serious or irreversible damage, lack of full scientific certainty shall not be used as a reason for postponing cost-effective measures to prevent environmental degradation. Cost-effective means lowest cost. 

World Summit on Sustainable Development held in Johannesburg, South Africa. World governments, concerned citizens, UN agencies, multilateral financial institutions, and other major groups participate and assess global change since the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) in 1992. 

Agenda 21, for example, the plan of action to achieve sustainable development that was adopted at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development held in Rio de Janeiro in June 1992, calls on countries and the international community to develop indicators of sustainable development. Such indicators are needed to increase focus on sustainable development and assist decision-makers at all levels to adopt sound national sustainable development policies. 

The United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (the Earth Summit) that took place at Rio de Janeiro in 1992 tried to help redress the balance (with mixed results) by encouraging states to take responsibility for policing their own environmental issues. This proved very effective in industrialised countries, which continue to tighten their control, and chemical industry associations played their part through initiatives such as the Voluntary Energy Efficiency Programme (VEEP). Even so, economic considerations have perpetuated the concept of pollution havens elsewhere, and the export of low added value processes to less effectively policed economies continues. 

In October 1991, UNIDO convened the Ministerial Conference on Ecologically Sustainable Industrial Development (ESID), in Copenhagen, Denmark. This Conference was a milestone for the Environment Programme of the Organization and a major input, from the industry perspective, to the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED). 

At the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (2-14 June 1992, Rio De Janeiro) the IPCS had been designated as the nucleus for strengthened international cooperation on environmental and sound management of chemicals. The role of poisons information centres in areas such as chemical risk reduction had been recognized, and governments were urged to establish poisons information centres in their countries. 

Following the United Nations conference on Environment and Development held in Rio de Janeiro, June 1992, many countries have begun to develop objectives for environmental sustainabilitj. 

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