The European Parliament was scrutinising the outcome of the UN summit which took place in Brazil on 20-22 June - 20 years after the Rio Earth Summit.
The first Rio Earth Summit in 1992 called for nations to find ways to conserve fish stocks and prevent international conflicts over fishing on the high seas.
Severn Suzuki - daughter of the renowned conservationist David - went to the Rio Earth Summit 20 years ago as a 13-year-old to ask her elders to sort themselves out.
The summit took place in Brazil on 20-22 June 2012 - 20 years after the Rio Earth Summit - and was organised by the UN to focus attention on sustainable development.
The Rio Earth Summit codified the U.N.
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By the time of the Johannesburg conference in 2002, marking the ten year anniversary of the Rio Earth Summit the UNEP hopes to have available images of almost everywhere in the world lettign people peer into their own backyard.
This looks like a re-run of the discussion leading up to the Rio Earth Summit in 1992, in which development groups angrily rejected any intellectual framing in which population growth in developing countries was identified as the core global problem.
Rio de Janerio Earth Summit and a key Kyoto Protocol architect, was a CCX board member.
These threats, so much more severe than in 1992 when Rio hosted its first Earth Summit, require that we act now to make sustainability disclosure a global norm.
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In 1992, he led the U.S. Senate's delegation to the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
The summit aims to overcome years of deadlock over environmental concerns and marks the 20th anniversary of the landmark Earth Summit in Rio in 1992, which delivered the Climate Convention and a host of other promises.
Over the next nine months, we will work with our diverse membership to catalyze a new round of private sector-led commitments to safeguard natural assets, to be announced at the June 2012 Earth Summit, in Rio de Janeiro.
Rio has changed a lot since the Earth Summit, but the poverty still remains in the favelas along the hillside.
Rio housed the prior summit, known as the Earth Summit, which brought climate change to the forefront along with environmental degradation.
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