What is Rio+20 Conference, often mentioned in the news?

Answer: (a) It is the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development

Rio+20 is the popular name for the 2012 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, held in Rio de Janeiro on 20–22 June 2012. It was held twenty years after the 1992 Earth Summit in the same city, which explains the name.

• ✓ (a) The UN describes the 2012 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development in Rio as 'also known as Rio+20'. It was held twenty years after the 1992 Earth Summit. Member States decided there to launch a process to develop the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
• ✗ (b) WTO Ministerial Conferences are separate meetings of trade ministers. They have no link to the Rio conferences.
• ✗ (c) The IPCC is a scientific body that prepares assessment reports on climate change. Rio+20 was a UN conference of Member States, not an IPCC meeting.
• ✗ (d) The CBD Conference of the Parties is a different meeting. The CBD was itself opened for signature at the 1992 Rio Earth Summit, but Rio+20 was a wider UN conference on sustainable development.

Remember · Rio+20 = UN Conference on Sustainable Development, Rio de Janeiro, June 2012, 20 years after the 1992 Earth Summit. It launched the process that led to the SDGs.

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