At the Rio Summit, only the British delegation is likely to have heard of Romney Marsh.
It was one of his main reasons for proposing the Rio summit, in 1997.
He moved on to organise the 1972 Stockholm conference on the environment and the Rio summit 20 years later.
That's why IPPF, the world's largest reproductive health and rights organization, will be vocal and visible at the Rio Summit.
Memories of the 1992 Rio summit, which produced important global agreements on combating climate change and protecting biodiversity, as well as the presence of so many world leaders, had also inflated expectations.
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The absence of key players like Obama has cast a shadow, as has the relative failure of the 1997 "Kyoto Protocol" on limiting greenhouse gases, which was set in motion at the 1992 Rio summit.
Ahead of the Rio summit, IPPF is making three positive commitments of its own to meet the sexual and reproductive health needs of people in the world's poorest countries to increase their resilience to climate change.
More seriously, the backsliding on reproductive rights -- first established in 1994 at the Cairo Conference on Population and Development and reiterated at the Beijing Women's Conference -- is simply not acceptable, as highlighted by numerous women leaders in their statements to the Rio Summit.
Then more estimates day debates - first on transport and the economy and then on the Rio Plus Summit on sustainable development - to be held in Rio de Janeiro in June.
The European Parliament was scrutinising the outcome of the UN summit which took place in Brazil on 20-22 June - 20 years after the Rio Earth Summit.
The summit took place in Brazil on 20-22 June 2012 - 20 years after the Rio Earth Summit - and was organised by the UN to focus attention on sustainable development.
The first Rio Earth Summit in 1992 called for nations to find ways to conserve fish stocks and prevent international conflicts over fishing on the high seas.
Severn Suzuki - daughter of the renowned conservationist David - went to the Rio Earth Summit 20 years ago as a 13-year-old to ask her elders to sort themselves out.
The Rio Earth Summit codified the U.N.
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By the time of the Johannesburg conference in 2002, marking the ten year anniversary of the Rio Earth Summit the UNEP hopes to have available images of almost everywhere in the world lettign people peer into their own backyard.
This looks like a re-run of the discussion leading up to the Rio Earth Summit in 1992, in which development groups angrily rejected any intellectual framing in which population growth in developing countries was identified as the core global problem.
Rio de Janerio Earth Summit and a key Kyoto Protocol architect, was a CCX board member.
Leaders from the European Union met Latin American counterparts at a summit in Rio de Janeiro.
In 1992, he led the U.S. Senate's delegation to the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Rio housed the prior summit, known as the Earth Summit, which brought climate change to the forefront along with environmental degradation.
After being sent to a summit in Rio de Janeiro last summer he was given an opportunity to study in New York thanks to Tribal Link's Indigenous Fellowship Program and the Nataasha van Kampen Foundation.
The summit aims to overcome years of deadlock over environmental concerns and marks the 20th anniversary of the landmark Earth Summit in Rio in 1992, which delivered the Climate Convention and a host of other promises.
Timothy Wirth later became undersecretary of state for global affairs for the Clinton-Gore administration, U.S. representative to the 1992 UN Rio de Janeiro Climate Summit that set Kyoto Protocol carbon regulations in motion, and president of the UN Foundation.
In 1992, the world's largest environmental summit opened in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, with 178 nations taking part.
And next month, Clinton will go to New York attend an environmental summit, a followup to a summit held in Rio De Janeirio in 1992.
These threats, so much more severe than in 1992 when Rio hosted its first Earth Summit, require that we act now to make sustainability disclosure a global norm.
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When I arrive in Rio for the sustainable development summit, I know that when the buildings along the coast come into view, I shall think of those words, convinced that the sea will determine the future of Earth.
Over the next nine months, we will work with our diverse membership to catalyze a new round of private sector-led commitments to safeguard natural assets, to be announced at the June 2012 Earth Summit, in Rio de Janeiro.
Rio has changed a lot since the Earth Summit, but the poverty still remains in the favelas along the hillside.
Italian MEP Vittorio Prodi, from the Social Democrats group, said the summit should have been called "Rio-20, because we went back 20 years".
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