What is the Rio+20 Conference, often mentioned in the news?
✓ Correct answer: a) It is the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development
ExplanationRio+20 is the short name for the United Nations Con- ference on Sustainable Development which took place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in June 2012 i.e. twenty years after the land- mark 1992 Earth Summit in Rio.At the Rio+20 Conference, world leaders, along with thousands of participants from the private sector, NGOs and other groups, came together to shape how we can reduce poverty, advance social equity and ensure en- vironmental protection on an ever more crowded planet.In Rio, Member States agreed to initiate a process to create a set of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that would build on the Millennium Development Goals and align with the post- 2015 development agenda.The conference also endorsed pio- neering guidelines for green economy policies.Additionally, governments decided to establish an intergovernmental pro- cess under the General Assembly to explore strategies for fi- nancing sustainable development.149
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