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The Partnership for Action on Green Economy (PAGE), a UN mechanism to assist countries transition towards greener and more inclusive economies, emerged at
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The Partnership for Action on Green Economy (PAGE), a UN mechanism to assist countries transition towards greener and more inclusive economies, emerged at The [1]United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development 2012, Rio de Janeiro[1]. This conference, also known as Rio+20, marked the 20th anniversary of the original Earth Summit and focused on green economy as one of its key themes. PAGE unites the expertise of five UN agencies – UN Environment Programme (UNEP), International Labour Organization (ILO), UN Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), UN Development Programme (UNDP) and UN Institute of Training and Research (UNITAR)[2]. The initiative was launched to provide coordinated support to countries seeking to transition towards resource-efficient, low-carbon, and socially inclusive development pathways. Option A refers to an earlier summit in Johannesburg (2002), while Options C and D refer to different events - the Paris Climate Agreement (2015) and a summit in New Delhi (2016) - neither of which were the origin of PAGE.
Sources- [2] https://www.unep.org/topics/finance-and-economic-transformations/transforming-economies/partnership-action-green-economy
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Guest previewThis question rewards 'Thematic Mapping' over rote memorization. While PAGE is a specific entity, the answer lies in knowing that 'Green Economy' was the central theme of the Rio+20 Conference (2012). If you knew the headline theme of each summit, the answer was automatic.
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- Statement 1: Did the Partnership for Action on Green Economy (PAGE) emerge at the Earth Summit on Sustainable Development 2002 in Johannesburg?
- Statement 2: Did the Partnership for Action on Green Economy (PAGE) emerge at the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development 2012 in Rio de Janeiro?
- Statement 3: Did the Partnership for Action on Green Economy (PAGE) emerge at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change 2015 in Paris?
- Statement 4: Did the Partnership for Action on Green Economy (PAGE) emerge at the World Sustainable Development Summit 2016 in New Delhi?
- Explicitly states that PAGE "emerged" in association with the Earth Summit on Sustainable Development 2002 in Johannesburg.
- Identifies PAGE as a UN mechanism for assisting countries transition to greener, more inclusive economies, tying the entity named to the claimed origin event.
Explicitly links Rio+20 (2012) with a focus on the 'Green economy' and institutional framework for sustainable development.
A student could infer that initiatives explicitly about a 'green economy' are more likely to have been launched or emphasised at Rio+20 (2012) than at Johannesburg 2002, and check PAGE's founding date against 2012.
Describes the Johannesburg 2002 outcomes (the Johannesburg Plan of Implementation) and their emphases (Agenda 21, MDGs), showing the summit's documented priorities.
Use this pattern to judge whether a programme about the 'green economy' fits Johannesburg 2002's documented priorities or seems more aligned with later Rio+20 themes.
Lists milestones including Rio+20 and Sustainable Development initiatives (SDSN, SDGs), indicating an ongoing evolution of sustainability agendas after 1992 and 2002.
A student could use this timeline pattern to place the likely origin of a green-economy partnership within the sequence (e.g., closer to Rio+20) and then verify PAGE's founding year.
Notes that the 2012 UN Conference (Rio+20) was a UN conference on sustainable development, reinforcing that major new themes (like green economy) were advanced at Rio+20 rather than earlier summits.
Combine this with the explicit green-economy link at Rio+20 (snippet 10) to suspect PAGE more plausibly emerged around 2012 than at Johannesburg 2002.
Summarises the original Earth Summit (1992) outputs (Agenda 21, conventions), showing earlier summits set different agendas and naming conventions for initiatives.
A student could contrast the 1992/2002 summit outputs with the later green-economy emphasis to assess whether PAGE fits the 2002 summit's typical outputs or a later shift.
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