Conference

United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), Rio de Janeiro, 3-14 June 1992

Informal name

The Earth Summit

Host Government

Brazil

Number of Governments participating

172, 108 at level of heads of State or Government

Conference Secretary-General

Maurice F. Strong, Canada

Organizers

UNCED secretariat

Principal themes

Environment and sustainable development

NGO presence

Some 2,400 representatives of non-governmental organizations (NGOs); 17,000 people attended the parallel NGO Forum

Resulting document

Agenda 21, the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development, the Statement of Forest Principles, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity

Follow-up mechanisms

Follow-up mechanisms: Commission on Sustainable Development; Inter-agency Committee on Sustainable Development; High-level Advisory Board on Sustainable Development

Previous conference

UN Conference on the Human Environment, Stockholm (1972)