ABSTRACT

George Bush, President of the United States of America, 1992. The ‘globalization’ of environmental concern is generally dated back to the Stockholm Conference of 1972 in which the primary environmental problems were identified. Twenty years later the Rio Conference sought to apply the same principles of international debate to the emerging secondary problems. The Rio summit resulted in four concrete documents:

(i) The Rio Declaration; (ii) The Biodiversity Convention;

(iii) The Climate Convention; and (iv) Agenda 21.