“The Rio Declaration on Environment and Development”, “Introduction to Chapter 7” from Agenda 21 (1992), and the “Istanbul Declaration on Human Settlements”

2004 ◽  
pp. 71-79
Keyword(s):  
Agenda 21 ◽  
Human Settlements ◽  
Environment And Development ◽  
Istanbul Declaration

scholarly journals O desenvolvimento urbano sustentável – uma utopia possível?

2004 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zulma das Graças Lucena SCHUSSEL
Keyword(s):  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Sustainable Urban Development ◽  
Energy Sources ◽  
Agenda 21 ◽  
Local Agenda 21 ◽  
Environment And Development ◽  
The Developed Countries ◽  
The Relationship

O século XX, ao mesmo tempo em que se caracterizou pela associação do conceito de desenvolvimento ao uso e consumo crescentes do solo, das fontes de energia e dos recursos naturais de forma geral, deu origem à formação das concentrações metropolitanas. Essas concentrações aglutinaram ao longo do tempo fortes processos de degradação ambiental. Uma das respostas encontradas para essas questões vem sendo dada pela Agenda 21, adotada por aproximadamente 179 países na Conferência das Nações Unidas sobre Meio Ambiente e Desenvolvimento, em 1992, no Rio de Janeiro. A presente reflexão trata das diferenças entre as Agendas 21 locais desenvolvidas nos países desenvolvidos e em desenvolvimento. Propõe a discussão sobre o inter-relacionamento das questões socioambientais do município com o espaço regional e as decorrentes limitações na implementação dos propósitos da Agenda 21 local. Sustainable urban development – a possible utopia? Abstract The 20th century has been characterized by the association of the developmental concept with the increasing use and ground consumption, the energy sources and the natural resources in general. At the same time, the metropolitan concentrations formation began and generates, throught out the years, an strong process of environmental degradation. One of the answers founded for these questions has been given through the Agenda 21, adopted by approximately 179 countries in the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, in 1992, at Rio de Janeiro. The present reflection is about the differences between the local Agenda 21 implemented in the developed countries and in the developing countries. It proposes the discussion about the relationship between the municipality’s social and environmental issues and regional space and the consequent limitations at the implementation of the Agenda 21 purposes.

AGENDA 21: Biotechnology at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development

1992 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 402-404 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adolfo R. Taylhardat ◽  
Raymond A. Zilinskas
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Agenda 21 ◽  
Environment And Development ◽  
The United Nations

The Legal Mandate of Multilateral Development Banks as Agents for Change Toward Sustainable Development

1998 ◽  
Vol 92 (4) ◽  
pp. 642-665 ◽  
Author(s):  
Günther Handl
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Global Environment ◽  
General Assembly ◽  
Agenda 21 ◽  
Multilateral Development Banks ◽  
Resource Degradation ◽  
Un General Assembly ◽  
Environment And Development ◽  
Development Banks

In its June 1997 review of the state of the global environment and the implementation of Agenda 21, five years after the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), the UN General Assembly drew a rather gloomy picture. While acknowledging that some progress toward sustainable development had been made, for example, in curbing pollution and slowing the rate of resource degradation in a number of countries, the Assembly’s report noted that, overall, trends tended toward continued deterioration. Not surprisingly, therefore, the report also reiterated Agenda 21’s call upon, inter alia, multilateral development banks (MDBs) to ensure that development funding “contribute to economic growth, social development and environmental protection in the context of sustainable development.” The report, in short, enjoined MDBs to strengthen their commitment to sustainable development.

scholarly journals PERAN PEREMPUAN DALAM PEMBANGUNAN BERKELANJUTAN WOMEN IN SUSTAINABLE DEVELPMENT

2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 61-64
Author(s):  
Yusriani Sapta Dewi
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Millennium Development Goals ◽  
Gender Mainstreaming ◽  
Agenda 21 ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Gender Perspectives ◽  
Environment And Development ◽  
Sustainable Organizations ◽  
Gender Specific ◽  
United Nation

The United Nations are formally commited to gender mainstreaming within all policy areas and programs. In 1992 the United Nation Conference on Environment and Development produced Agenda 21, which recognized women as one of the nine major groups whose active participation is essential to sustainable development. It was agreed that the advancement of women is indeed a pre requisite for making sustainable development a reality. The World Conference on Women in 1995 adopted the Beijing Platform for Action, in which governments agreed to implement gender mainstreaming. Other United Nation conference have also acknowledged the importance of adopting a gender specific approach to implementing policies; gender equality has been identified as one of Millennium Development Goals and designated as a crosscutting theme for work of the commission on sustainable organizations, national government, and most civil society groups still fail to integrate gender perspectives adequately into their policies and their actions.

International Trade and Environment: Towards Integrative Responsibility

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Calestous Juma
Keyword(s):  
International Trade ◽  
Genetically Modified Organisms ◽  
International Environmental Agreements ◽  
National Level ◽  
Environmental Conservation ◽  
Agenda 21 ◽  
Environment And Development ◽  
Environment And Trade ◽  
Complex Relationships ◽  
The One

The rise of environmental awareness and the advent of globalization have emerged as two of the most important forces shaping international trends in the new century (Taylor and Thomas 1999). Interest in environmental and trade issues is not new; however, the intensity with which these forces are considered to be in conflict with each other is new. These two forces represent two seemingly different stylized epistemological outlooks. On the one hand, international trade is driven by technological innovation and expressed as discrete and reducible entities such as products and prices. Environmental concerns, on the other hand, are linked to the growing understanding of the complex relationships between natural and cultural evolution. As globalization continues to rise, growing efforts are under way to ensure that international trade be consistent with other societal goals, such as environmental conservation. Finding complementary goals for these two regimes has been challenging in the past (Repetto 1993). This is not just an academic exercise but a serious attempt to create international agreements on how to integrate environment and trade activities. The results of such efforts are codified in the Rio Declaration1 and Chapter 2 of Agenda 21, as well as reflected in a number of international environmental agreements dealing with toxic chemicals and genetically modified organisms. These treaties contain provisions that seek to ensure that international trade and environmental protection are mutually supportive. These agreements are also matched by efforts at the national level to integrate economic and environmental considerations. Such efforts received global legitimacy with the adoption of Our Common Future, the report of the Commission on Environment and Development released in 1987 under the chairmanship of Norwegian Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland. The report advanced the principle of integrative responsibility, which became the basis for the work of the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED). UNCED adopted Agenda 21—forging the most elaborate effort yet to provide guidelines for implementing integrative responsibility. Also adopted were the Rio Principles on Environment and Development, which also articulate and push for integrative responsibility among these two factions.

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