Earth Summit
the Rio Summit

The Earth Summit conferences were held in 1992, 1972 and 2002.

Remember, these issues will remain relevant long after the Earth Summit has become a matter of history.

It's certainly easy to be sceptical about the Earth Summit.

However, like the Earth Summit, the conference agenda has already provided arguments.

Outsize though the Earth Summit may be, we all have a role to play in its outcome.

Their leaders hope to sign the accords at the conclusion of the Earth Summit this weekend.

The Earth Summit had action stations where people debated the issues to be included in the declaration.

It flies in the face of commitments made at the Earth Summit to reduce consumption.

By 2012, 20 years from Rio, we need another Earth Summit this time on human and environmental security.

At the Earth Summit Yet, in other areas, the President has also gone his own way.

Once the Earth Summit was over, outside interest in the Amazon evaporated.

At Earth Summit 2002 governments established targets for 2015 to improve access to safe drinking water.

One of the initiatives signed in part of the strategy was the 1992 Earth Summit.

In contrast, on the eve of the 1992 Earth Summit here, deforestation had dipped to 4,247 square miles.

Several delegations have already indicated that their leaders may present new aid offers when they address the Earth Summit.

A13 Americans are skeptical of results from the Earth Summit.

Like the Council, we place immense importance on the outcome of last year's Earth Summit.

Then, there was the recent Earth Summit at Rio.

Will Rio+20 squander green legacy of the original Earth summit?

Indeed, in preparation for the Earth Summit, 240 workers have been cleaning trails and sprucing up the park.

The skepticism about the Earth Summit aside, the survey found that concern for environmental issues remained high despite the nation's lingering economic problems.

The poll, taken at the same time as the Rio Earth Summit, picked up concern about the environment.

He was also part owner of Earth Summit, which won the 1998 Grand National.

Her report on sustainable development, which led to the 1992 Earth Summit, had earned her international renown.

(Note that all prices may briefly balloon during the Earth Summit.)

In 1992, with the Rio summit, we saw some very encouraging targets set.

The Rio Summit brought little in the way of results, so it is up to us to lead by example!

The Rio Summit defined a new arena, that of sustainable development.

The Rio Summit in 1992, made this goodwill concrete.

The Rio Summit was very different from Johannesburg in some important respects.

Even before the Rio Summit we had requested that there be a tax on energy, and we are still a long way off it.

No one could ignore the Rio Summit even if much of what came out of it did not have an immediate effect on business.

He represented Canada at the Rio Summit in 1992.

And ten years after the Rio Summit, Kyoto has still not begun to exist in practice.

Rio and the Rio Summit is going to bring forth an absolute cascade of words.

European countries refused to include themselves in the Rio summit agreement requiring developing countries to introduce sustainable forest management by 2000.

A key landmark was the Rio Summit in 1992 where the vast majority of nation-states committed themselves to sustainable development.

The reports here are being used to draft an "Earth Charter" for the Rio summit meeting on making development more compatible with the environment.

I would not like to end without emphasizing something extremely important in the report which was key to the Rio Summit and is still key today.

In 1992, the Rio Summit adopted Agenda 21 as a blueprint of action for achieving sustainable development.

The Rio Summit had already taught us that concluding agreements that cannot be enforced is an empty exercise.

In this period Anderson's work largely centered around the Rio Summit conventions on biodiversity and climate change.

This will be the fifth top-level meeting between our regions since our strategic partnership was launched at the Rio Summit in 1999.

He was also prominent in advancing forest conservation on an international scale, culminating in a declaration of principles at the Rio Summit.

Simeón was responsible for directing Cuba's preparations for the Rio Summit.

The Johannesburg Summit failed to introduce the radical changes targeted for ten years after the Rio Summit.

European delegates predict that the North will have a maximum of $3 billion to $5 billion to offer in new aid at the Rio summit meeting.

He was appointed Secretary General of Environnement 2000, a government supported agency preparing policies towards the Rio Summit later that year.

The pressure groups "are prime actors in awareness creation and in their substantive, professional capacity," said Maurice Strong, the Canadian official planning the Rio summit.

He said that the "momentum created by the Rio summit and public opinion in sections of the developed world are on the side of the environmental movement, not the industry".