Earth Summit Activity

1. United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), also known as Earth Summit is an organization of nature experts that come together once every year and discuss what is good for our planet. 2.The United Nations (UN) organized Earth Summit. 3.The first earth summit was held in Rio, Brazil in 1992. 4.In South Africa. 5.The most recent earth summit was held in Durban, august 2011 6.The purpose of the earth summit is to create new ways of generating energy with sustainable resources and to protect the earth and looking after it. 7.The most important decisions made by the earth summit is the koyoto protocol. 8.I think it is necessary because we need to find ways to look after our earth and use resources in a way that they are sustainable, otherwise we could run out of resources and then there would be wars and other crisis’s. 9.Since the Earth Summit in Rio, the government has tried to find new ways of helping the environment.Also Agenda 21 is still a powerful long-term goal for balancing economic and social needs with the capacity of the earth’s resources and ecosystems. 10.Sustainable development is linked with Earth Summit because in order to keep resources on earth without them running out, we need to use them in a sustainable way so the earth still has that resource for its own natural needs, like trees provide oxygen during the day and water is one of the most important resources, so if we use resources in a sustainable way, it will be better for the earth.