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The Rio Declaration on Environment and Development (RD) is a document that defines principles for the relationship of states to each other and the relationship between states and their citizens in the field of environment and development. It was adopted during the 1992 United Nations (UN) Conference on Environment and Development, which is also called the Earth Summit. RD consists of 27 principles that build on the ideas from the Stockholm Declaration of the 1972 UN Conference on the Human Environment. In other words, it is a nonbinding declaration of intent that reaffirms some important principles relating to international environmental law. However, RD is also a landmark that forms the basic framework for the understanding of sustainable development (SD) and environmental law. Together with Agenda 21, which is an action plan for the implementation of this conceptual SD and also adopted during the Earth Summit, they show a way to SD for the...
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Tokuç, A. (2013). Rio Declaration on Environment and Development (UN). In: Idowu, S.O., Capaldi, N., Zu, L., Gupta, A.D. (eds) Encyclopedia of Corporate Social Responsibility. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-28036-8_19
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