<P> Although President George H.W. Bush signed the Earth Summit's Convention on Climate, his EPA Administrator William K. Reilly acknowledges that U.S. goals at the conference were difficult to negotiate and the agency's international results were mixed, including the U.S. failure to sign the proposed Convention on Biological Diversity . </P> <P> Twelve cities were also honoured by the Local Government Honours Award for innovative local environmental programs . These included Sudbury in Canada for its ambitious program to rehabilitate environmental damage from the local mining industry, Austin in the United States for its green building strategy, and Kitakyūshū in Japan for incorporating an international education and training component into its municipal pollution control program . </P> <P> The Earth Summit resulted in the following documents: </P> <Ul> <Li> Rio Declaration on Environment and Development </Li> <Li> Agenda 21 </Li> <Li> Forest Principles </Li> </Ul>

The 1992 un conference on environment and development