Rio+20 Call from Lawyers and Organizations

Presently, there is nothing more germane than the preservation of the environment for future generations. Failure to do so, will be tantamount to endangering the lives of our own children. The earth was loaned to us by posterity. This petition is most timely.

I fully support this petition. I especially support the call for conevntions (global/regional) to implement Principle 10 of the Rio Declaration.

Environment shall be considered as one of the most important issues in each country as it directly relates to economic development and current daily life of people. It's not for only the today life but for the future generations also.

Thanks for this initiative. In addition to the many good elements of the petition, I would like to mention two additional global concerns that are of a global nature and receive too little attention:
- Protection of wilderness areas (as defined by IUCN, protected area category 1b): only about 30% of the earth surfase is relatively unchanged by modern society (roads, buildings, etc.)and these wilderness areas (e.g., the Polar Regions) are under have pressure. Wilderness protection is not part of international environmental law;
- it might well be that environmental law will never be effective if the human-nature attitude is not changing. As more an more children grow up in cities, it is of high importance that children have sufficient opportunites to experience nature.

While acknowledging that a petition can never be complete, I thought it might be useful to make this comment.

Success with the petition!

Best regards,

Kees Bastmeijer
Professor of Nature Conservation and Water Law
Tilburg Law School, Tilburg, The Netherlands

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We really appreciate you Sr. for representing our world.

Why are so many non-lawyers signing a petition specifically stating "We, the undersigned lawyers." Did you not read the petition you have been asked to sign? Are you being intentionally dishonest?

stop devastating our earth!

I hope Rio+20(2012) could globalize the Aarhus convention for all over the world according to part II-2 of the petition.

Dear sir,i beg to state that,i am a bangladeshi buddhist monk.At now i stay in bangkok because i study buddhism in thailand.i agree to attends your conference and hope this very important for me.so how can i join us your conference sir.i wait your better responsibility.
All the best.
yours regards,
ven.shovan sraman
bangkok,thailand.

Dear sir,
i agree to attends your conference and this very important for me.

I wish a green environment for the world.

support for Vietnam

Clean air and clean environment is very important for us as old citizens that have made medical operation on our heart. We want leaders to pay more and more attention to environmental problems.

Having clean environment is very important for all of living entities including humans, animals and plants. we are concern about our health for environmental problems, so leaders must pay more and more attention to environmental issues.

We know that contamination of soils and waters have negetive effectives on our foods and health, so we expect the RIO+20(2012) conference take this issues serious.