David Lopez-Carr. Download PDF. A short summary of this paper. The primary focus of the Rio conference was to reconceptualize the global development agenda to include the sustainable use of natural resources. World leaders attempted to ameliorate the world's most pressing environmental issues by agreeing on a comprehensive strategy. This strategy aimed to meet current socio-environmental needs while ensuring a healthy and viable world for future generations.
The Rio Summit boasted unparalleled representations from governments, including heads of state, and the participation of 1, nongovernment organizations NGOs. The commission published a provocative and widely circulated document titled Our Common Future. Lauded by the international environmental community, it derogated the world's failure to achieve development goals sustainably and outlined visionary actions for reversing anticipated environmental catastrophes.
This document helped propel international support among world leaders for the Rio Summit and generally outlined the topics for discussion. The main plan of action developed and adopted by the governments at the Rio Summit is known as Agenda It is a comprehensive blueprint for global, national, and local actions by UN organizations, governments, and major environment and development stakeholders.
One of several other important achievements of the conference was agreement on the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change FCCC , which aimed at stabilizing greenhouse gas concentrations at a level that would prevent dangerous interference in Earth's atmosphere. Another key agreement adopted at Rio was the Convention on Biological Diversity. It established three principal goals: 1 conservation of biological diversity, 2 sustainable use of its components, and 3 fair and equitable sharing of the benefits from the use of genetic resources.
The Rio Summit was sharply criticized for its failure to include the regulation of businesses, financial institutions, and transnational corporations in Agenda 21 despite their central role as carbon emitters. Presaging a growing civil society influence in UN covenants, 18, representatives attended a parallel summit specifically for NGO participants a number that has swelled at consecutive UN summits. However, civil representation remained geographically unbalanced, and civil society organizations remained ancillary collaborators to states and largely remained distant from the central politics shaping Agenda Carr Further Readings Carr, D.
Global civil society? Geoforum vol. World Commission on Environment and Development. Our common future. The primary objective of the Rio 'Earth Summit' was to produce a broad agenda and a new blueprint for international action on environmental and development issues that would help guide international cooperation and development policy in the twenty-first century.
The 'Earth Summit' concluded that the concept of sustainable development was an attainable goal for all the people of the world, regardless of whether they were at the local, national, regional or international level.
It also recognized that integrating and balancing economic, social and environmental concerns in meeting our needs is vital for sustaining human life on the planet and that such an integrated approach is possible. The conference also recognized that integrating and balancing economic, social and environmental dimensions required new perceptions of the way we produce and consume, the way we live and work, and the way we make decisions.
This concept was revolutionary for its time, and it sparked a lively debate within governments and between governments and their citizens on how to ensure sustainability for development. One of the major results of the UNCED Conference was Agenda 21 , a daring program of action calling for new strategies to invest in the future to achieve overall sustainable development in the 21st century.
Its recommendations ranged from new methods of education, to new ways of preserving natural resources and new ways of participating in a sustainable economy.
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