Earth summit

A UN Conference on Environment and Development, held in 1992 at Rio de Janeiro, following from a UN conference at Stockholm in 1972, the World conservation strategy (1980) and the Brundtland Commission (1983-1987).

Agenda 21,
Brundtland Commission,
Convention on biological diversity,
differentiation,
Framework convention on climate change,
Stockholm conference

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