In 1992, he led the U.S. Senate's delegation to the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Rio has changed a lot since the Earth Summit, but the poverty still remains in the favelas along the hillside.
Governments promised to protect forests in the Earth Summit 1992 and support sustainable logging operations in the world's remaining ancient forests.
Rio housed the prior summit, known as the Earth Summit, which brought climate change to the forefront along with environmental degradation.
The inquiry comes after Wales failed to meet the 2010 biodiversity target set as part of the UK government's commitment to the Earth Summit.
This country made the proposal to launch a United Nations Decade for Education for Sustainable Development at the Earth Summit in Johannesburg in 2002.
Japan made the proposal to launch a United Nations Decade devoted to Education for Sustainable Development at the Earth Summit in Johannesburg in 2002.
At the Stockholm environment summit of 1972 - the world's first - and at the Earth Summit here in 1992, the activists' gatherings were acknowledged as the conscience of the meeting.
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.
The Rio Earth Summit codified the U.N.
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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 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.
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.
Critics say America blocked an effort, first mooted at the Stockholm Earth Summit 40 years ago, to make the UN's Environment Programme a fully fledged UN agency.
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Boxing and other sports Tyson won his licence back, High Rise won the Derby and Earth Summit the National, the Light Blues took the Boat Race and the Tour de France became the Tour de Farce.
Smith says the plant extinctions that have occurred since the first Earth Summit in 1992 have all been entirely avoidable.
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.
He even suggests that the international coalition which led to the eviction of the Taleban and al-Qaeda from Afghanistan may influence politicians when they go to South Africa for the next Earth Summit.
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.
Max has also been the Official Artist of five Super Bowls, six Grammy Awards, The World Series, the United Nations Earth Summit, and numerous other events.
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.
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.
Llewellyn won the 1998 National on Earth Summit, trained by Nigel Twiston-Davies, six years after winning the big race in General Election week aboard Party Politics.
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The purpose of inquiry is to establish why Wales, along with every other country, failed to meet the 2010 biodiversity target set as part of the UK government's commitment to the United Nations' Earth Summit.
The summit marks twenty years since 1992's Earth Summit, which set goals for tackling climate change and poverty.
This snow-capped volcano, scarcely visible behind a veil of mist, was Professor Lidenbrock's destination - the mountain where an ancient riddle spoke of a crater at the summit that leads to the centre of the Earth.
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