Sustainable Development

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

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

(b) It is a Ministerial Meeting of the World Trade Organisation

(c) It is a Conference of the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change

(d) It is a Conference of the Member Countries of the Convention on Biological Diversity

Explanation:

Rio+20

The United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, also known as Rio 2012, Rio+20, or Earth Summit 2012 was the third international conference on sustainable development aimed at reconciling the economic and environmental goals of the global community.

It is the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development.

Twenty years after the 1992 'Earth Summit' in Rio de Janeiro, the 2012 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development in Rio (also known as Rio+20) resulted in a document containing clear and practical steps for the implementation of sustainable development.

Key principles:

• Principle 5: The eradication of poverty as an indispensable requirement of sustainable development;

• Principle 6: Calls for attention to the special situation and needs of developing countries, particularly the least developed and those most environmentally vulnerable.

Principle 7 : States need to cooperate to protect and restore the health and integrity of the Earth’s ecosystems with developed countries holding a particular responsibility common but differentiated responsibility

• Principle 8 : Cooperation by states to reduce and eliminate unsustainable patterns of production and consumption.

• Principle 16: the polluter should, in principle, bear the cost of pollution;

• Principle 17: The precautionary approach;

• The definition of participation as the best way to handle environmental matters is contained in Principle 10.

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What was the title of the Rio-20 declaration?

(a) The future we went

(b) The future we seek è

(c) The future we have

(d) The future we see

(e) None of these.

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The concept of 'Sustainable Development' was firstly introduced in-

A. Rio Declaration

B. Stockholm Declaration

C. Brundtland Report è

D. World Commission on Environment and Development (WCED)

Explanation:

The Brundtland Report, published in 1987 by the United Nations World Commission on Environment and Development, coined the term "sustainable development" and defined it as "development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs."

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The basic idea behind 'Sustainable Development' is

A. Development at all cost

B. Environmental protection at all cost

C. Liberalisation, Privatisation, Globalisation (LPG) at all cost

D. Environment & Development should go hand in hand. è

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Which among the following is false about ‘the polluter pays principle’?

a. It finds its mention in Principle 16 of the Rio Declaration

b. It provides that producers of goods or other items should bear the financial and practical responsibility of preventing or remedying any pollution caused by their activity

c. It exposes the polluter to two fold liability, namely compensation to the victim of pollution and ecological restoration

d. This principle was to conceal the trade secrets of the manufacturing unit è

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Which of the following is an essential of the Polluter Pays Principle?

A. Duty to anticipate environmental degradation

B. Duty to take care

C. Duty to attack environmental pollution

D. All of the above è

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