BEERPPING AND DEVELOPMENT
THE EARTH SUMMIT For the first time ever heads of government will come together to hammer out a global strategy to the linked challenges of poverty, inequality and environmental destruction. The Earth Summit (official title of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development) will be held in Rio de Janeiro from 1-12 June 1992, It will be the largest United Nations Conference ever held and could well be the most significant - a turning point in history. Groups around the world are focusing on the Earth Summit as an unprecedented opportunity to move from dealing with the symptoms of crisis to tackling the underlying inequality between North and South in access to the planet's limited resources,
Global warming, deforestation and protecting other species are all on the agenda. So too are ways to promote genuinely sustainable development by setting in place those policies and technologies which will meet our needs today without damaging the prospects for future generations. The time for talking is over, and progress will depend on how much pressure world leaders come under from voters back home. And that is where you come in.
THE TREE OF LIFE A special Tree of Life is being assembled in Rio de Janeiro during the Earth Summit.
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The United Nations Conference on Environment and Development is expected to produce the following: 1. An Earth Charter . this will embody basic principles which must govern the economic and environmental behaviour of peoples and nations in the future.
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2. Agenda 21 this will be a blueprint for action in all major areas affecting the relationship between the environment and the economy up to the year 2000 and well into the twenty-first century. It will address a number of topics, including the following: protection of the atmosphere protection of land resources conservation of biological
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diversity protection of freshwater resources protection of oceans, seas and coastal areas environmentally sound management of biotechnology
and hazardous wastes. 3. New and additional financial resources if the South is to play its part, it needs some of the wealth held by the North. 4. Technology transfer again, a switch from the North to the -
will be made up of millions of pledges in the shape of leaves from people all around the world. It
The Tree of Life will provide a powerful and positive reminder to world leaders that much is expected of them at the Earth Summit.
THE GLOBAL FORUM This will take place in Rio at the same time as the Earth Summit. Environment and development non-governmental organisations and activists from around the world will meet: it is estimated that 15 000 people will attend. The Tree of Life will be assembled in Flamengo Park and will provide visual and symbolic focus of all the Global Forum's many different activties.
South. 5. Strengthening institutional capacities and procedures. 6. A convention on biodiversity and a framework agreement for a convention on climate change.
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Please note that if you want details of an event to be advertised in this column it is important that you send information to the Editor well in advance of the planned
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XIX International Congress of Entomology, 19 Zhongguancun Lu. Beijing 100080, China. Telex: 222337 ICCST CN; Fax: 861 2565689.
BRAZIL United Nations Conference on Environment and " Development The Earth Summit”. 1-12 June 1992, Rio de Janeiro. Further details from: United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), Case postale 80, Conches, Switzerland The Global Forum 1-12 June 1992, Rio de Janeiro.
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Further details from: 92 Global Forum, Hotel Gloria, Predio Annexo, 366 Rua do Russel, 632, 22212 RJ, Brazil.
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Regional Beekeepers’ Meeting. This Workshop is now anticipated to take place during the first quarter of 1992. {ts purpose is to bring together beekeepers operating in the Eastern Caribbean to discuss topics including production, commercialisation and promotion of beekeeping in the region. Further details fri m: jorge Murillo-Yepes, PO Box 612, Saint George's. Grenada.
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XIX International Congress of Entomology. 28 June-4 July 1992, Beijing. Further details from: Secretariat.
MALAYSIA 14th Commonwealth Forestry Conference “People, the Environment and Forestry - Conflict or Harmony”. 13-18 September 1993, Kuala Lumpur. Further details from: The Secretary General CFC-14, Forestry Department Headquarters, Peninsular Malaysia, Jalan Sultan Salahuddin. 50660 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
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TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO Fifth International Conference on Apiculture in Tropical Climates. 7-12 September 1992, University of the West Indies. Further details from: International Bee Research Association, 18 North Road, Cardiff CF] 3DY, UK.
USA International Workshop on Non-Apis Bees and their Role as Crop Poilinators. August 1992, Logan, Utah. Further details from: Dr John D Vandenberg, USDA-ARS Bee Biology and Systematics Laboratory, Utah State University, Logan, Utah, 843222 5310, USA.
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