The Rio 20 conference, which will examine the progress made since the first Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro 20 years ago, will take place there this June.

The Convention on Biological Diversity, agreed at the Rio Earth Summit, established that biological diversity is a common concern of humanity.

The first President Bush said much the same thing almost a decade ago, at the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro.

In the 22 years since the world signed the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change at the Rio Earth Summit, there has been far too little progress toward real action.

But the long term decline in the ratio of aid to GNP did not stop the rich world from promising time and again to reach 0.7 of GNP, including at the Rio Earth Summit in 1992 and the Copenhagen Summit on Social Development in 1995.

At the Rio summit in 1992, we promised to cut emissions by 2000, yet overshot the target by 12 .

All greencrowds.org projects are part of the Small Grants Program (SGP), which was born during the Rio Summit in 1992.

Beijing, London, Rio.

If that were politically possible, it would have been done a long time ago if not at the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, then in Kyoto 12 years later and if not in Kyoto, then in Copenhagen last December.

For this reason, whatever fine, ringing pronouncement, do emerge from the Earth Summit, they are doomed to failure.

That's Rio de Janeiro!

I live in Rio.

This is at odds with the EU s proclamations since the 1999 Rio summit that Latin America is a vital political and economic partner.

Aluminium and related products Rio Tinto Alcan The Rio Tinto Group has consolidated its aluminium related businesses in its Rio Tinto Alcan division.

Aid for the environment averaged about 2 billion per year far short of what the international community, first at the Rio Summit in 1992 and then at the Johannesburg Summit ten years later, said was needed.

Don t Blame it on Rio

Why not start with Rio?

The Rio Olympics 2016 logo.

Have you been in Rio?

Have you been in Rio?

Have you been in Rio?

Have you been in Rio?

The Convention on Biological Diversity, agreed at the Rio Earth Summit, established that biological diversity is a common concern of humanity. The signatories agreed to conserve biological diversity, by saving species and their habitats, and to use biological resources (e.g., forests) in a sustainable manner.

The developed nations promised to pay reparations for their past sins at the Rio de Janeiro summit in 1992 but kept deferring their obligations by negotiating.

The High Stakes of Rio 20

San Carlos, Rio San Juan, Nicaragua.

Demonstrators try to march in Rio.

Passeio Público, downtown Rio de Janeiro.

Lapa Arches, downtown Rio de Janeiro.

Itamaraty Palace, downtown Rio de Janeiro.

Is Rio de Janeiro at War?

He crossed the Rio Grande River.

Have you ever been in Rio?

Have you ever been in Rio?

Mother Earth.

Rio Tinto has, in turn, sponsored its own WorldAware award, the Rio Tinto Award for Long term Commitment.

Santa Tereza, neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro.

Luis Rio Bueno, the local vet says

A slave market in Rio, c. 1824.

Where's Rio de Janeiro? It's in Brazil.

There is now a subway in Rio.

They have a subway in Rio now.

Noting the communiqué relating to support for tsunami and multihazard warning systems within the context of the Global Earth Observation System of Systems, adopted at the third Earth Observation Summit, in Brussels, on 16 February 2005,

A Plutocrats Summit?

Global Summit Sindiyo