The Millennium Development Goals of UN are a set of eight goals developed during the United Nations Millennium Summit in 2002 (MDGs). They are based on the United Nations Millennium Declaration. By 2015, all members of the United Nations have committed to achieving these objectives. Each goal has a defined Read more…
Introduction to UN Conference on Sustainable Development UN Conference on Sustainable Development was held on June 20-22, 2012 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It is also called (UNCSD), Rio 2012, Rio+20, and Earth Summit 2012. It was the continuity of Rio Summit 1992 and Earth Summit 2002. The Conference is being promoted as “The Read more…
World Summit on Sustainable Development also known as Johannesburg summit (WSSD, 2002) was convened to establish a plan of implementation that would accelerate & strengthen the enforcement of the principles approved in Rio De Janeiro. The decade that separates the two conferences confirmed the diagnosis reached in 1992 & the difficulty of Read more…
Agenda 21 United Nations is an action plan of the UN related to sustainable development and was an outcome of the UN Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) held in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, in 1992. A comprehensive blueprint of action to be taken globally, nationally, and locally by organizations of the UN governments, and Read more…
The Rio Summit 1992, United Nations Conference on Environment and Development Introduction: The Rio Conference (UN Conference on the climate and advancement 1992) was gathered two years after the distribution of the Brundtland report (composed by the World Commission on climate and improvement, managed by the then Prime Minister of Norway, Read more…
The Brundtland Commission Report The Brundtland Commission Report authored by ‘World Commission on Environment and Development (WCED)’ on the subject of ‘Sustainability’ was published in 1987. This document is also called the ‘Brundtland Report’ owing to Norwegian Prime Minister Brundtland who chaired WCED. The drafting of the document was an Read more…
The period of the Industrial Revolution of England was from the 18th to the 19th century. This revolution marked the conversion of agrarian and rural societies into industrialized and urban societies. The Industrial Revolution of England shifted home-based manufacturing to powered and special-purpose machinery, factories, and mass production. The iron Read more…