Previous Year Question
What is Rio+20 Conference?
It is the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development
It is a Ministerial Meeting of the World Trade Organisation
It is a conference of the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change
It is a Conference of the Member Countries of the Convention on Biological Diversity
Correct Answer: A
Detailed Solution
The official name of Rio+20 was the ‘United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development’.
It was held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in June 2012.
It was called Rio+20 because it was held twenty years after the 1992 Rio Earth Summit.
It was not the twentieth session of a conference.
A principal objective of Rio+20 was to renew global political commitment to sustainable development.
One of its major themes was the green economy in the context of sustainable development and poverty eradication.
Its second major theme was strengthening the institutional framework for sustainable development.
The outcome document of the Conference was ‘The Future We Want’.
This document emphasized advancing sustainable development through the integration of its economic, social and environmental dimensions.
Rio+20 played an important role in initiating the process for developing the Sustainable Development Goals.
The Conference also led to work towards establishing the United Nations High-Level Political Forum.
It was not a Ministerial Meeting of the World Trade Organization. Therefore, option (b) is not correct.
It was neither a conference of the IPCC nor a conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity. Therefore, options (c) and (d) are not correct.