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Rio+20 was a world mega-summit held in June 2012 in Rio de Janeiro, as a 20-year follow-up of a historic UN conference on sustainable development held in the same city.
Two of its projects were featured on CNBC's Responsible Business programme in the lead-up to Rio+20, the 2012 UN conference on sustainable development held in June 2012.
In particular, Mr Clinton criticises the failure to make mass use of anti-retrovirals, drugs that are already widely used in Brazil and India.In September, Mr Piot protested that the World Summit on Sustainable Development, held that month in Johannesburg, paid almost no attention to AIDS.
The World Summit on Sustainable Development, held in August and September in Johannesburg, S.Af., brought international attention to such concerns as land reform, environmental pollution, unrestricted population growth, protection of the world's natural resources, and the problems faced by the poorest people.
Food safety emerged as one of the central themes of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, held in 2012 in Rio de Janeiro (UNCSD United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development 2012), in addition to ocean sustainability and poverty reduction.
The Rio+20 Summit on sustainable development held this summer is a case in point.
United Nations Sustainable Development Knowledge Platform Website for the United Nations Member State-led Open Working Group, established to develop Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as an outcome of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20), held in Rio de Janeiro in June 2012.
Under the authorization of the UN General Assembly, the World Summit on Sustainable Development was held in Johannesburg, S.Af., on August 26 September 4. Coming 10 years after the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, the "Johannesburg Summit 2002" represented an attempt to reinvigorate sustainable development activities in the wake of deepening poverty and environmental degradation.
At the recent World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD), held in Johannesburg in 2002, energy was one of the most contentious issues.
In June 2012, the Rio+20 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development was held to reaffirm commitments, review progress, determine how the MDGs will conclude, and to outline a replacement system.
Over one hundred Heads of State and Governments addressed the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) held in August 2002 in Johannesburg, South Africa [ 1], and over twenty two thousand people participated, including more than ten thousand delegates and eight thousand representatives of NGOs and civil society.
