MSI (2005): Mauritius Strategy of Implementation

World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD), Johannesburg Summit

Johannesburg Summit 2002 - the World Summit on Sustainable Development - brought together tens of thousands of participants, including heads of State…

Developing a Vulnerability Index for SIDS

BPoA+5 (1999) - Five-year review of the Barbados Programme of Action

Ad Hoc Expert Group Meeting on Vulnerability Indices

The ad hoc expert group on vulnerability indices, comprised of 22 participants and 17 observers, met at the United Nations Headquarters in New York…

UNGASS-19 Special Session of the General Assembly to Review and Appraise the Implementation of Agenda 21

In 1992, more than 100 heads of state met in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil for the first international Earth Summit convened to address urgent problems of…

BPOA (1994) - Barbados Programme of Action

United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), Earth Summit

Since 1990, the international community has convened 12 major conferences which have committed Governments to address urgently some of the most…

World Commission on Environment and Development

The General Assembly, in its resolution 38/161 of 19 December 1983, inter alia, welcomed the establishment of a special commission that should make…

United Nations Conference on the Human Environment (Stockholm Conference)

The United Nations Conference on the Human Environment (also known as the Stockholm Conference) was an international conference convened under United…