The Conference resulted in the signature of a number of major documents: the Convention on Biological Diversity; Framework Convention on Climate Change; Agreement on Forest Principles; Rio Declaration (see separate entries for information on these and the institutions set up to manage them) and Agenda 21. Follow up actions to the conference are managed by the UN Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD: see separate entry)
See also the entries for the Global Environment Facility (GEF) and the UN Department for Policy Coordination and Sustainable Development for follow up materials.
Materials from the Conference are available in several places:
(a) UNDP gopher: official documents including each chapter of Agenda 21, text of conventions, declaration, report of the meeting. Texts are available in English/French/Spanish and are searchable by keyword. Gopher to nywork1.undp.org., select UN Conferences option from menu.
(b) Linkages WWW/gopher: information arranged by Convention name. A good source for information on follow-up actions. WWW: http://www.iisd.ca/linkages
(c) Earth Summit CDRoms: see separate entry. This includes the Ngonet archive of NGO submissions to UNCED
(d) CEISIN WWW: official documents and conventions, prepcom documents, and a prose guide through the documents and other sources prepared for the Academic Council on the United Nations System. Includes the preparatory Prepcom documents, the IPCC Climate Change and biodiversity preparatory materials, and the final documents.
(e) CSD WWW: texts from original meeting plus subsequent follow-up reports. A five year follow up meeting (Earth Summit 2) will be held in June 1997. WWW: http://www.un.org/dpcsd/dsd/csd.htm
(f) Rio + 5 Forum: meeting held in March 1997 by NGOs, business and governments in preparation for Earth Summit 2. WWW site incldudes background documents and archive of email discussion list. WWW: http://www.ecouncil.ac.cr/rio/index.htm