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Document 6
The United States and 34 other industrial countries met in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to discuss
world environmental concerns.
6.
Identify two
environmental issues discussed at the Rio Conference. [1,1]
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Reproduced from the June 2001 Global History and Geography Regents Exam
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Rio Pact 1992
Agenda 21
The Agenda establishes the following priorities for international environmental action:
achieving sustainable growth, as through integrating environment and development
in decisonmaking;
making
the world habitable by addressing issues of urban water supply, solid waste
management, and urban pollution;
encouraging efficient resource use, a category which includes management of
energy resources, care and use of fresh water, forest development, management of
fragile ecosstems, conservation of biological diversity, and management of land
resources;
protecting global and regional resources, including the atmosphere, oceans and seas,
and living marine resources;
managing chemicals and hazardous nuclear wastes.