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This year marks the twentieth anniversary of the Earth Summit held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in June 1992, where a number of seminal agreements were signed by heads of state from all the countries of the world. These included the Rio Declaration, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), Convention on Biodiversity (CBD) and Agenda 21. Each of these agreements was taken forward at the international level through global institutions and implemented at national level. Parallel to the environment discourse in 2000 at the Millennium Summit in New York the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) were agreed with a target date of 201