Rio-92 or ECO-92

The United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, also known as Earth Summit, held in June of 1992, in Rio de Janeiro, bringing together more than 180 countries. It was at Rio-92 that the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) was opened for signature.

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REDD+

It means REDD, with the inclusion of the role of conservation, sustainable forest management, and increasing forest carbon stocks in developing countries. It is the concept currently applied under the Climate...

United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change or the Climate Change Convention

See UNFCCC.

Biome

The word ‘biome’ – ‘bios’ (from Ancient Greek βίο, meaning ‘life’) and ‘ome’ (a variation of ōma, from Ancient Greek ωμα, meaning ‘mass’ or ‘group’) – was first used in 1943 by the American botanist Frederic Edward Clements, to define a biological unit or...