Rio Convention relates to either of the following three conventions which are results of the Earth Summit held in Rio de Janerio in 1992. These conventions are
- UNFCCC, the abbreviation of United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
- CBD, the abbreviation of Convention on Biological Diversity
- UNCCD,the abbreviation of United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification
Famous quotes containing the words rio and/or convention:
“I hear ... foreigners, who would boycott an employer if he hired a colored workman, complain of wrong and oppression, of low wages and long hours, clamoring for eight-hour systems ... ah, come with me, I feel like saying, I can show you workingmen’s wrong and workingmen’s toil which, could it speak, would send up a wail that might be heard from the Potomac to the Rio Grande; and should it unite and act, would shake this country from Carolina to California.”
—Anna Julia Cooper (1859–1964)
“No convention gets to be a convention at all except by grace of a lot of clever and powerful people first inventing it, and then imposing it on others. You can be pretty sure, if you are strictly conventional, that you are following genius—a long way off. And unless you are a genius yourself, that is a good thing to do.”
—Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1879–1944)