The Summit will take place next September in Johannesburg, South Africa, marking the 10th anniversary of the 1992 Rio de Janeiro Earth Summit.

The Copenhagen talks sit within the framework of the UNFCCC, agreed at the Rio de Janeiro Earth Summit in 1992.

It was an outgrowth of the 1992 UN Conference on Environment and Development in Dublin and at the Rio de Janeiro Earth Summit.

It is based on Agenda 21 and principles for Sustainable Development endorsed by 182 Heads of State at the United Nations Rio de Janeiro Earth Summit.

The concept appears, often as an objective or preambular reference, in most international statements and declarations related to environmental, social and economic issues since the 1992 Rio de Janeiro Earth Summit.

It is a gathering that marks the 20th anniversary of the original Rio de Janeiro Earth Summit, at which landmark treaties to curb climate change and arrest the extinction of species were agreed.

GEF was established to finance the genocidal program that emerged from the 1992 Rio de Janeiro Earth Summit, where the transition to a sustainable development was agreed under Agenda 21.

Ensure compliance with strengthened international environmental conventions Commitments made by the international community ten years ago at the Rio de Janeiro Earth Summit to eradicate poverty and protect the environment must be fulfilled.

In 1992, the Rio de Janeiro Earth Summit gave credence to this approach by recommending that water management be decentralized, with farmers and other stakeholders playing a more important role in managing natural resources.

In 1992, the need for a charter was urged by then-Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali at the Rio de Janeiro Earth Summit, but the time for such a declaration was not believed to be right.

Instead, delegates will focus on climate financial aid, deforestation and other secondary "building blocks" to try to revive momentum toward an umbrella deal at next year's conference in South Africa or at the Rio de Janeiro Earth Summit in 2012.

The origins of the Green Globe organisation can be traced back to the United Nations Rio de Janeiro Earth Summit in 1992, where 182 heads of state from around the world endorsed the Agenda 21 principles of sustainable development.

In 1990 he was appointed chief adviser for business and industry to the secretary general of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), better known as the Rio de Janeiro Earth Summit of 1992.

They had been battling developed countries -- where most of the drug and other companies that enjoy the benefits of genetic resources are based -- over the issue since the CBD was formed at the Rio de Janeiro Earth Summit in 1992.

The Brundtland Report set the scene for the Rio de Janeiro Earth Summit five years later, which would deliver more specific global commitments on climate, biodiversity, desertification and forests, turning the commission's broad vision into narrower objectives, more measurable and so - perhaps - more achievable.

To the Editor: "From Uncle Smoke to Mr. Clean" by Gregg Easterbrook (Op-Ed, Aug. 13), on the Rio de Janeiro Earth summit accords, notes that the United States has indeed initiated a stronger follow-through on the treaty than our European critics at Rio.