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In June 1992, more than 100 heads of states met in Rio de Janeiro in Brazil, for the first International Earth Summit. The Summit was convened for addressing urgent problems of environmental protection and socioeconomic development at the global level. The assembled leaders signed the Declaration on Global Climatic Change and Biological Diversity. The Rio Convention endorsed the global Forest Principles and adopted Agenda 21 for achieving Sustainable Development in the 21st century.
It is the declaration signed by world leaders in 1992 at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), which took place at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It aims at achieving global sustainable development. It is an agenda to combat environmental damage, poverty, disease through global co - operation on common interests. mutual needs and shared responsibilities. One major objective of Agenda 21 is that every local government should draw its own local Agenda 21.
Answer the following MCQS by choosing the most appropriate option:
When was the First international Earth Summit held?
 


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a

July 1992

b

April 1992

c

June 1992

d

June 1991 

answer is C.

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The first Earth Summit, also known as the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), was held in Rio de Janeiro on June 14, 1992. Almost 172 countries took part, with 116 sending their leaders of state or government. The summit's principal purpose was to discuss the worldwide climatic change that is now taking place on the planet. "No actions on indigenous peoples' territories that might cause environmental damage or be culturally incorrect" were agreed upon. A significant accomplishment of the summit was the agreement on the Climate Change Convention, which resulted in the Kyoto Protocol and the Paris Agreement.
 
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