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The document presents a review of international progress made in sustainable development as a result of the UN Conference on Environment and Development held in June 1992 in Rio de Janeiro and other major UN conferences since. Subject headings are: energy and major global issues (poverty, gender disparity, population; undernutrition and food; health; acidification; climate change land degradation; energy and the economy; energy and security; UN conferences on small island development states and Habitat II; global implications for energy); new opportunities in energy demand, supply and systems (energy efficiency and materials efficiency; renewable and clean fossil fuel technologies; fuels and stoves for cooking); sustainable strategies (global energy strategies and their implications); making it happen: energy for sustainable development (policy considerations, improving the economic framework; prospects for energy technology market leadership in the developing world; the time for sustainable energy has come). 440 refs., 34 figs., 14 tabs., 1 app.
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