Previous Year Question
The Partnership for Action on Green Economy (PAGE), a UN mechanism to assist countries transition towards greener and more inclusive economies, emerged at
The Earth Summit on Sustainable Development 2002, Johannesburg.
The United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development 2012, Rio de Janeiro.
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change 2015, Paris.
The World Sustainable Development Summit 2016, New Delhi.
Correct Answer: B
Detailed Solution
PAGE stands for ‘Partnership for Action on Green Economy’.
Its concept emerged from the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development held in Rio de Janeiro in 2012.
This 2012 conference is also known as the Rio+20 Conference.
It was held twenty years after the Rio Earth Summit of 1992.
The outcome document of Rio+20 was ‘The Future We Want’.
This document recognized the green economy as an important tool in the context of sustainable development and poverty eradication.
PAGE was launched in 2013 in response to the call made at Rio+20.
PAGE assists countries in developing policies, institutional capacity and national strategies relating to an inclusive green economy.
An inclusive green economy is based on low-carbon, resource-efficient and socially inclusive development.
UNEP, ILO, UNIDO, UNITAR and UNDP work jointly under PAGE.
It addresses employment, industrial development, skills, environmental sustainability and institutional capacity through an integrated approach.
The World Summit on Sustainable Development was held in Johannesburg in 2002, but PAGE did not emerge there.
The 2015 event in Paris was a climate conference under the UNFCCC, where the Paris Agreement was adopted.
The World Sustainable Development Summit in New Delhi was not the place of origin of PAGE.