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Earth Summit +5: Special Session of the General Assembly to Review and Appraise the Implementation of Agenda 21

The first Earth Summit, held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 1992, concentrated on "address[ing] urgent problems of environmental protection and socio-economic development," and produced Agenda 21, a "plan for achieving sustainable development in the 21st century." A Special Session of the UN General Assembly met in New York from June 23-27, 1997 to assess the implementation of Agenda 21; the Earth...

https://www.un.org/esa/earthsummit/
Official Web Site of the Third Conference of the Parties (COP3), Kyoto, December 1-10, 1997

The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) (discussed in the October 24, 1997 Scout Report) Third Conference of the Parties (COP-3) takes place in Kyoto, Japan from December 1-10, 1997. The Official Site features the full text of the Convention (with chronological and alphabetical listing of ratifiers in the last five years), official documents in five languages from all...

https://unfccc.int/cop3/
Official Website of the Sixth Conference of the Parties, COP 6, Part 2

The Sixth session, Part two of the Conference of the Parties to the Climate Change Convention (COP 6.2) ended Friday in Bonn. Thirty-seven of the fifty-five countries needed to make the Kyoto Protocol binding have ratified the agreement. At COP 6, a number of decisions were made that "set out the rulebook by which governments will cooperate on making the Kyoto Protocol's institutions and...

https://unfccc.int/cop6_2/index.html
Summary for Policymakers: A Report of Working Group I of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

The Third Assessment Report of Working Group I of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has released this summary for policymakers (approved in Shanghai in January 2001), describing the current state of scientific understanding of the climate system. The report, available in .pdf format, provides considerable scientific evidence that warming is occurring across the globe and that...

https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/2018/02/ar4-wg1-spm-...
The 3rd World Water Forum

Convened in March 2003 in Japan, the 3rd World Water Forum dealt with 38 interlocked themes concerning how to bring safe water and sanitation to the world. Considered the most important international water meeting to date, the forum hosted close to 24,000 persons from 182 countries. On this well-designed site, users can read various documents presented at the Forum, along with reading the daily...

https://enb.iisd.org/events/3rd-world-water-forum/summary-re...
Trade, Global Policy, and the Environment

To encourage the exchange of ideas among academics and government policy makers concerning the effects of trade liberalization on the environment, the World Bank Environment Department (discussed in the September 25, 1997 Scout Report for Business & Economics) has made fifteen working papers available from the "Trade, Global Policy, and the Environment" conference held April 21-22, 1998, in...

https://documents.worldbank.org/en/publication/documents-rep...