At the time of the first Earth Summit I was almost two years old and entirely oblivious to the huge environmental challenges faced by the world that I was still so new to. At the 1992 summit, delegates sat together and made plans for the world that I would grow up in, they had the [...]
As many of those reading this blog are probably aware, Rio +20 marks the twentieth anniversary of the 1992 Earth Summit held in Rio, which gave rise to many outcomes – the Rio Declaration, Agenda 21, the Forests Principles, Convention on Biological Diversity – and importantly in the DECC context, the UN Framework Convention on [...]