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Action to promote sustainable development worldwide will be the focus of a special session of the United Nations General Assembly when it meets in New York from 23 to 27 June 1997.
Earth Summit +5, as the special session is called, will review and appraise implementation of Agenda 21, and other commitments adopted by the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, popularly known as the Earth Summit, held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in June 1992. Agenda 21 contains strategies for preventing environmental degradation and for establishing a basis for a sustainable way of life on the planet into the twenty first century.
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