Representatives from 179 countries attended the UN Conference and Environment and Development – often referred to as the “Earth Summit” – to discuss global sustainability.
Accomplishments of the Conference included:
- Agenda 21, calling for new strategies of investment to achieve overall sustainable development in the 21st century.
- The Rio Declaration and its 27 universal principles
- the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
- the Convention on Biological Diversity
- theDeclaration on the principles of forest management .
Earth Summit held in Rio de Janeiro