{"id":113,"date":"2010-03-09T14:31:31","date_gmt":"2010-03-09T14:31:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/2010\/03\/09\/rio-conventions-and-commissions\/"},"modified":"2010-03-09T14:31:31","modified_gmt":"2010-03-09T14:31:31","slug":"rio-conventions-and-commissions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/rio-conventions-and-commissions\/","title":{"rendered":"Rio Conventions and Commissions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Summit brought environment and development issues firmly into the public arena. Along with the Rio Declaration and Agenda 21 it led to agreement on two legally binding conventions: the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbd.int\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CBD<\/a>)  and the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (<a href=\"http:\/\/unfccc.int\/2860.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UNFCCC<\/a>). It also produced a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.un.org\/documents\/ga\/conf151\/aconf15126-3annex3.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Statement of Forest Principles<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The Earth Summit gave rise to a number of positive responses including the emergence of thousands of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iclei.org\/index.php?id=798\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Local Agenda 21 initiatives<\/a> and an enhanced political profile for sustainable development issues on a national level. It led to the formation of the annual UN Commission on Sustainable Development (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.un.org\/esa\/dsd\/csd\/csd_aboucsd.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CSD<\/a>) to monitor and follow up on the advancement and implementation of Agenda 21. Many countries also set up their own <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sd-commission.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sustainable development commissions<\/a> and created national strategies for its achievement.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Summit brought environment and development issues firmly into the public arena. Along with the Rio Declaration and Agenda 21 it led to agreement on two legally binding conventions: the UN Convention on Biological&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-earth-summit"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}