Earth Summit
In 1992, the Earth Summit was held in Rio de Janeiro. That summit was meant to build cooperation among member states regarding environmental concerns such as pollution and toxic waste, climate changes, using alternative sources of energy, encouraging public transportation, availability of clean water, and protecting oceans from pollution and other abuses.
The Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD) was created to monitor implementation of Summit agreements. It was decided that in five years a special session of the General Assembly would be held for the CSD to report on the progress since the summit. This was known as Earth Summit +5.
Note
The souvenir sheet at the top was issued to bring attention to the Earth Summit +5, the special session of the General Assembley to review the progress made since the Summit in in 1992. There was a souvenir sheet issued for that event. See the Clean Oceans page.
The second set of four stamps on this page are basically the same stamps as in the souvenir sheet, but they come from a normal sheet of stamps. That’s common with U.N. souvenir sheets, to issue the stamps with the same design in both formats. What’s different here is that these stamps also have an extra border around them saying Earth Summit +5 since that’s not part of the stamp design from the sourvenir sheet, but on its selvage.
Contains 5 spots: own 5 – 5 unused, 0 used.
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Stamp Details
The table below lists information about the stamps shown on this page of Lighthouse’s stamp album. For more details about a particular stamp, click on its description. That will take you to the related web page of Colnect.
spot |
own |
catalog |
subject |
description |
comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
✓ |
222 |
11s (may 1997) |
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✓ |
218 |
3.50s (may 1997) |
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✓ |
219 |
3.50s (may 1997) |
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✓ |
220 |
3.50s (may 1997) |
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✓ |
221 |
3.50s (may 1997) |
Footnotes
Spot refers to the postion of the stamp on the album page (e.g., 3.2 indicates row 3, position 2).
Amt. is an abbreviation for the face amount of the stamp.
Own indicates the stamp status: ✓ for unused; ✗ for used or canceled; ⭑ signifies I ordered one; ; ✨ indicates it was bought recently; ✠ means an auction bid is pending; and ◎ is used, and it costs too much for unused.
To search by catalog number, go to the search box and enter it in the catalog number box. However, it’s a bit broken; I need to fix it.
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