Pulling together for the future

Countries must cooperate to create a stable and sustaining international environment to promote the green economy

The United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, known as the Rio+20 Summit, was an important international conference that sought to revive global sustainable development and rally international efforts to deal with long-standing and newly emerging global challenges. It came 20 years after the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro, and 10 years after the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg,

Focusing on the green economy in the context of sustainable development and poverty eradication, and an institutional framework for such development, the conference reviewed past achievements and promoted the formation of new political commitments.