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The United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, also known as the '''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 sending their heads of state or government.Keith Schneider, "White House Snubs U.S. Envoy's Plea to Sign Rio Treaty," New York Times, 5 June 1992; James Brooke, "U.N. Chief Closes Summit With an Appeal for Action," New York Times, 15 June 1992 Some 2,400 representatives of Non-governmental Organization s (NGOs) attended, with 17,000 people at the parallel NGO Forum, who had so-called Consultative Status . The issues addressed included:
An important achievement was an agreement on the Climate Change Convention which in turn led to the Kyoto Protocol . Another was agreement to "not carry out any activities on the lands of Indigenous Peoples that would cause environmental degradation or that would be culturally inappropriate". The Convention on Biological Diversity was opened for signature at the Earth Summit, and made a start towards redefinition of Money Supply measures that did not inherently encourage destruction of natural Ecoregion s and so-called Uneconomic Growth . Twelve cities were also honoured by the Local Government Honours Award for innovative local environmental programs. These included Sudbury, Ontario in Canada for its ambitious program to rehabilitate environmental damage from the local Mining industry, Austin, Texas in the United States for its Green Building strategy, and Kitakyushu in Japan for incorporating an international education and training component into its municipal pollution control program. The Earth Summit resulted in the following documents:
Both ''Convention on Biological Diversity'' and ''Framework Convention on Climate Change'' were set as legally binding agreements. Critics, however, point out that many of the agreements made in Rio have not been realized regarding such fundamental issues as fighting Poverty and cleaning up the Environment . REFERENCES EXTERNAL LINKS
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