About the Danish 92 Group


The Danish 92 Group is a coalition of 22 Danish NGO's working on issues related to environment and development. The Danish 92 Group was established in 1991 with the mandate of co-ordinating the Danish NGOs' preparations of United Nation's Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) in Rio de Janeiro, 1992. 

The cooperation has continued since then and today the Danish 92 Group is working on the follow-up of the World Summit on Sustainable Development that took place in Johannesburg August/September 2002.

The member organisations also co-operate on related issues at the domestic as well as the international level. Activities cover, among others, the co-ordination of activities, joint actions on advocacy, lobbying and information activities, etc. The secretariat of The Danish 92 Group is currently based at CARE Denmark.

Areas of work include:

  • The political process on Sustainable Development, e.g. Agenda 21, United Nation's Commission on Sustainable Development, United Nation's Forum on Forests, and World Summit on Sustainable Development.

  • Multilateral environmental conventions, such as the conventions on climate change, biodiversity, desertification, and persistent organic pollutants.

  • The World Trade Organization (WTO) and the linkages between trade, environment and development.

  • Denmark's environmental development assistance, and integration of environmental considerations into other kinds of assistance to developing countries.