For 12 days in June 1992, more than 35,000 environmental activists, politicians, and business representatives, along with 9,000 journalists, 25,000 troops, and uncounted vendors, taxi drivers, and assorted others converged on Rio de Janeiro, Brazil...

On June 3 and 4, 1992, the Earth Summit (formally the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development or UNCED) met in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, as a twenty-year follow-up to the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment (UNCHE, held in...

The acronym for the UNITED NATIONS CONFERENCE ON ENVIRONMENT AND...

The acronym for the UNITED NATIONS COMMISSION ON SUSTAINABLE...

The United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, also known as the Rio Summit, Earth Summit (or, in Portuguese, Eco '92) was a major conference held in Rio de Janeiro from June 3 to June 14, 1992. 178 governments participated, with 118...

00-00-0000 Earth summit -- A long way to go to tackle poverty, pollution Date: 09-01-2002, Sunday Section: OPINION Edtion: All Editions.=.Sunday When the first Earth summit was held 10 years ago, the world seemed ripe for remaking. The Cold War was...

In a way that is often more personal than rational, there may be as much understanding of the environmental perils now facing this planet among the ordinary people who breathe its air and drink its water as there is among the planners of the...

Zimbabwe is likely to win approval to head a key U.N. body charged with promoting economic progress and environmental protection despite protests from some Western countries and human rights organizations.The 53-member Commission on Sustainable Development is scheduled to vote Friday on its new chair, U.N....

Zimbabwe, a country suffering from acute food shortages and rampant inflation, won approval to lead the important U.N. Commission on Sustainable Development despite protests from the U.S., European nations and human rights organizations.Africa nominated Francis Nhema, Zimbabwe's minister of environment and tourism, for the post,...