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Home / Working Paper Series / Working Paper # 30 – After Rio: The Question of International Institutional Reform (March 1995)

Working Paper # 30 – After Rio: The Question of International Institutional Reform (March 1995)

By The Honourable Maurice Strong

The legacy of Rio will depend on what governments and others do now to give effect to the agreements reached — a statement of principles in the Declaration of Rio and a comprehensive program of action, Agenda 21, designed to give effect to these principles. Also framework treaties on climate change and biological diversity were negotiated as part of the Rio preparatory process and opened for signature at Rio. Meanwhile, there have been some profoundly important changes in the dynamics of the global economy which are reshaping the economic and political geography of our industrial civilization and defining its future.Prospects for achievement of the goals set at Rio and the implementation of its Agenda 21, are inextricably linked to the complex set of issues through which these changes are occuring.

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Working Paper # 30 - After Rio: The Question of International Institutional Reform (March 1995) (1.85 Mb - 10 pages) Date: 1995