At the Rio+20 Conference, world
leaders, along with thousands of participants from governments, the private
sector, NGOs and other groups, will come together to shape how we can reduce
poverty, advance social equity and ensure environmental protection on an ever
more crowded planet to get to the future we want.
The United Nations Conference on
Sustainable Development (UNCSD) is being organized in pursuance of General
Assembly Resolution 64/236 (A/RES/64/236), and will take place in Brazil on
20-22 June 2012 to mark the 20th anniversary of the 1992 United Nations
Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), in Rio de Janeiro, and the
10th anniversary of the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) in
Johannesburg.