Reaffirming the Environment-Development Nexus of UNCED 1992

of global concern and especially support developing countriesto implement such measures.(l)consider funding mechanisms and other innovative approachesto ensure transfer of environmentally sound technologies todeveloping countries, on a favourable basis.(m) examine effective modalities for favourable access to andtransfer of environmentally sound technologies to developingcountries including on concessional and preferential terms,and explore the concept of assured access for developingcountries to environmentally sound technologies, in its relationto proprietary rights, to respond to the needs of developingcountries.It can be seen from the extracts of the convening resolution ofUNCED that developing countries were able to inject many of theirdevelopment concerns into what had been envisaged to be primarilyan environment Conference. Many of the principles or objectives laidout in this resolution opened the way for “development” argumentsand demands to be made in the subsequent UNCED process. Thisincluded the principle for a “common but differentiated responsibility”that became prominent in the Rio Declaration, the demands for afavourable international economic environment, including debt reliefand better terms of trade; the inclusion of poverty and of unsustainablepatterns of consumption and production; and most importantly, thedemands for additional financial resources and for favourable termsfor technology transfer.18