It was started by a group of environmentalists at the Earth Summit in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil.

在里约“地球高峰会议”上，环保人士率先提出创建该节日。

It started in 1993 and is held on May 22. This is the date of the Rio Earth Summit of 1992.

1993年，联合国设定每年5月22日是国际生物多样性日，与1992年的里约地球峰会日期相同。

In 1992, I had five minutes to speak to the UN's Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro.

1992 年，我有五分钟的时间在里约热内卢的联合国地球峰会上发言。

One of the visitors to the Earth Summit in Johannesburg said that what she had heard was very important.

约翰内斯堡地球峰会的一位与会者说，她所听到的非常重要。

Conferences like the Earth Summit help people understand that there exist serious problems and that there is still time to take action.

像地球峰会这样的会议帮助人们了解存在严重的问题，并且还有时间采取行动。

Ahmed Djoghlaf, the general secretary of the treaty signed by 192 countries since 1992 to protect biodiversity, is blunt about efforts to preserve the health of biodiversity since the Rio Earth summit 18 years ago.

自 1992 年以来由 192 个国家签署的保护生物多样性条约的秘书长 Ahmed Djoghlaf 对于自 18 年前里约地球峰会以来保护生物多样性健康的努力直言不讳。