Official discussions focused on two main themes: how to build a green economy in order to achieve sustainable development and lift people out of poverty, including assistance to developing countries to find a green path to development; and how to improve international coordination for sustainable development through the establishment of an institutional framework. The 2012 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20) reviewed these global imperatives and agreed to define Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that would serve as a guide for the international community in implementing measures to promote sustainable development. The conference focused on Agenda 21, the outcome document of the 1992 Earth Summit. This document was considered revolutionary, as it essentially created the notion of sustainable development and created the global environmental agenda for the next 20 years. Representatives of the participating Governments met in Rio to discuss the draft text of the outcome document at the time. This fourth edition of our Rio+20 Journal, which we have called “The Road from Rio: Towards Sustainable Development Goals”, expresses some perspectives on such goals and the contribution of international trade. We invited several leaders to share their views on aspects of the post-2015 development framework. We hope that this contribution will help Governments and other stakeholders to address the multiplicity of global problems facing the international community today and to define a framework for sustainable development that, in the years to come, can have a significant impact on the fight against poverty throughout the world. In 1992, the first conference of its kind, the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCSD), commonly known as the Rio Conference or Earth Summit, succeeded in raising public awareness of the need to integrate environment and development. The conference attracted 109 heads of state to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to tackle the so-called urgent problems of environmental protection and socio-economic development. [5] The Earth Summit influenced subsequent UN conferences, including Rio+20, and set the global green agenda. “The World Conference on Human Rights, for example, focused on the right of people to a healthy environment and the right to development; controversial demands which, up to the top of the Earth, had met with opposition from some Member States. » [6] 1. Development in Latin America and the Caribbean since 1992 from the point of view of sustainability.– 2) Strengthening of the environmental column.– 3.
Participation of civil society, the private sector and local communities in sustainable development.– 4. . . .