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UN Conference on the Environment Convenes
- It was the world's first conference to raise awareness of major environmental issues.
- There were created some important resolutions like: the Stockholm Declaration and Action Plan for the Human Environment.
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Brundtland Report
-Established that environmental problems were a consequence of the problems of poverty in the South and the high production and consumption presented in the North. -
Montreal Protocol
It is a global agreement to protect the ozone layer by controlling the production and consumption of elements and substances that degrade the ozone layer. -
Intergovernmental Panel Climate Change
- It was created to alert scientists to control climate change and thus create policies to mitigate this problem.
- Also to provide scientific information to policy makers on the state of knowledge on climate change.
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Basel Convention
- It was created to protect human health and the environment from the effects of hazardous wastes.
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Rio Earth Summit
- ts main objective was to create a model that would create a new model for international action on environmental and development issues that would help guide international cooperation and development policy.
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WTO
- Its objective is to encourage trade in order to improve the quality of life, increase employment, etc.
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Kyoto Protocol
- International treaty which extended the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
- Commits state parties to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, based on the scientific consensus that global warming is occurring.
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Millennium Declaration
- The UN General Assembly adopted some 60 goals regarding peace; development; environment; human rights; the vulnerable, hungry, and poor; Africa; and the United Nations which is called Millennium Declaration
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World Summit on Sustainable Development
- Adopted a Political Declaration and Implementation Plan which included provisions covering a set of activities and measures to be taken in order to achieve development that takes into account respect for the environment.
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UN Framework Convention on Climate Change
- Established an international environmental treaty to combat dangerous human interference with the climate system, in part by stabilizing greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere.
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UN Conference on Sustainable Development
- Was the third international conference on sustainable development aimed at reconciling the economic and environmental goals of the global community.
- Hosted by Brazil in Rio de Janeiro.
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First UN Environment Assembly
- “A Life of Dignity for All - Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Post-2015 Development Agenda, including sustainable consumption and production” and the conference is expected to deliver a number of outcomes that will result in actions to address key environmental challenges faced by the world today.
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UN Members Reunion
- More than 150 world leaders are expected to attend the Summit to formally adopt the Sustainable Development Goals, a set of 17 goals aiming to achieve three key things: Ending extreme poverty; fighting inequality and injustice; and fixing climate change.
- The goals are designed to benefit all people, in all countries of the world.
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Paris Agreement
- Builds upon the UNFCCC and, for the first time, brings all nations into a common cause to undertake ambitious efforts to combat climate change and adapt to its effects, with enhanced support to assist developing countries to do so.
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World Health Organization
- It was done so that everyone and everywhere can achieve a very high level of health. They are in charge of coordinating responses to a health emergency.