...and a role to play, to bring to the notice of the governments of the world, when they meet next year at the UN Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro, the possibilities that can lead to sustainable development. Until recently, humankind was a relatively...

...international environmental education. The Office will be a major player in supporting US Government efforts at the UN Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro. The Office Is continuing Its bilateral activities with the nations of Europe and Asia. The Office is...

...waste and toxic chemicals. In 1992 world leaders adopted an ambitious program for action, Agenda 21, at the UN Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. UNEP was requested by governments to support the preparations for the meeting in 17 specific...

...waste and toxIc chemicals In 1992 world lenders adopted Agenda 21, an ambitious program for action, at the UN Conference on Environment and Development In Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. I was pleased to be able so participate on behalf of US/UNEP and as an official non-governmental...

...protection are inseparable. Agenda 21, the programme of action for sustainable development adopted at the UN Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, is also an agenda for the IDA, particularly as the relationship between development and environmental...

...Berlin Wall is itself testimony to the power of people once aroused. The networks of NGOs, visible at the UN Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro, the Cairo Conference on Population and Development, and especially the energetic preparations for the...

...careful to stress the link between the environment and poverty, as did so many Third World nations at the UN Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro in 1992. It is a link that Northern agencies still sometimes overlook when setting their priorities....

...institutions'. Such commitments have been most fully expressed in Agenda 21 and the Rio Declaration, both agreed at the UN Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro in 1992. Since that Summit, the UN has made the necessary arrangements for a high level Commission...

...action to reduce emissions was discussed under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change in 1992 at the UN Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro. The UN Framework Convention calls for stabilization of carbon dioxide emissions at 1990 levels, but...

...Environment and Development Organization, met in Miami to draft a Women's Action Agenda for presentation at the UN Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro the following summer. As one ecofeminist reported, there were "not many opportunities for the majority...