World summit
As World Summit International are conferences referred to by UN organized organizations. They serve the international community of states to discuss current topics of global political relevance and to negotiate agreements. Under the influence of globalization , their importance as steering instruments for global political processes has increased since the 1990s .
Important world summits were:
- 1972 : United Nations Conference on the Human Environment (UNCHE) in Stockholm
- 1992 : United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) in Rio de Janeiro
- So far, 14 climate summits have been held following Rio : Berlin 1995, Geneva 1996,
- Kyoto 1997, Buenos Aires 1998, Bonn 1999, The Hague 2000 (continued in Bonn 2001), Marrakech 2001,
- New Delhi 2002, Milan 2003, Buenos Aires 2004, Montreal 2005, Nairobi 2006, Bali 2007, Poznan 2008, Copenhagen 2009
- short World Human Rights Conference in Vienna
- International Conference on Population and Development in Cairo
- briefly World Social Summit in Copenhagen
- 1995 : World Women's Summit in Beijing
- 1996 : Second United Nations Conference on Housing and Settlements
- short World Settlement Summit in Istanbul
- September 6-8, 2000 in New York, see Millennium Development Goals
- 2001 : World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance
- in Durban , see World Racism Conference
- 2002 : World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg
- 2002 : United Nations International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD)
- UN Conference on Financing for Development in Monterrey , see Monterrey Consensus
- World Summit on the Information Society (1st part) in Geneva
- World Summit on the Information Society (Part 2) in Tunis
- Follow-up to the Millennium Summit in New York
- 2012 : United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development in Rio de Janeiro
- 2014 : Climate Summit 2014
- 2015 : UN Conference on Financing for Development in Addis Ababa
- 2015 : World Summit on Sustainable Development 2015