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Earth Summit
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international conference in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in June 1992
Key facts
- Date
- 3–14 June 1992 ( 1992-06-03 – 1992-06-14 )
- Location
- Rio de Janeiro , Brazil
- Also known as
- Rio de Janeiro Conference Earth Summit
- Participants
- 108 heads of state and government
- Outcome
- Establishment of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- convention
- Country
- Brazil
- Followed by
- Earth Summit 2002
- Location
- Rio de Janeiro
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- Commons category
- Earth Summit 1992
- start time
- 1992-06-13
- end time
- 1992-06-14
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- WikiProject Climate change
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Encyclopedic overview
The Earth Summit was a UN event.
The United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), also known as the Rio de Janeiro Conference or the Earth Summit (Portuguese: ECO92, Cúpula da Terra), was a major United Nations conference held in Rio de Janeiro from 3 to 14 June 1992.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Earth Summit” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.