World Summit on Sustainable Development

 

 


WRM bulletin editorials related to processes stemming from 1992 Earth Summit:

2002

SPECIAL WRM BULLETIN FOCUSED ON THE WSSD

Bulletin 61, August 2002 - complete version
The World Summit on Sustainable Development will soon meet in Johannesburg, South Africa and we have therefore decided to focus this WRM bulletin entirely on this event. In this way we aim at providing relevant information and analysis to both those who will be directly participating at the Summit and those who will not, so as to generate more public awareness leading to increased pressure on governments to make them fulfil the commitments agreed upon ten years ago at the Earth Summit held in Brazil.

OTHER RELEVANT INFORMATION

WSSD: "A little more conversation, a little less action" - Corporate Europe Observer - Special Release / November 2002

The Great Betrayal. Why civil society walked out and withdrew consent from W$$D - By Vandana Shiva - September 2002

The World Summit on Sustainable Development and Forests - WRM Declaration to the WSSD -August 2002

Ex Silvis: WSSD, What Did You Expect? - Forest Cover - Issue Nº 7 - Bby Miguel Lovera, Coordinator, Global Forest Coalition

The Kimberley Indigenous Peoples Summit and the WSSD - Forest Cover - Issue Nº 7 - By Hubertus Samangun, ICTI, Indonesia

NGO Position Paper for the plenary debate on Biodiversity developed by the NGO Biodiversity Caucus in consultation with the Global Forest Coalition World Summit on Sustainable Development - South Africa, August 2002.

Call for moratorium on timber plantations in South Africa - Timberwatch Statement - WSSD August 27 2002

The Johannesburg Declaration on Biopiracy, Biodiversity and Community Rights - by Biowatch - August 2002

Bali Principles of Climate Justice - International Climate Justice Network. August 2002

OilWatch Position Papers for WSSD (word format):

Marketing the Earth: The World Bank and Sustainable Development - By Friends of the Earth and Halifax Initiative. August 2002

The Environmentalism of the Poor - A Report for UNRISD for the WSSD at Johannesburg. August 2002. J. Martinez.-Alier

The Bali PrepCom 4: Moving Backwards - By Ricardo Carrere - published in Forest Cover Nº 6

10 Years since the Rio Summit Meeting and 10 Years of the International Alliance of Indigenous - Tribal Peoples of the Tropical Forests - August 2002

Branching Out, Deeply Rooted - International Network of Forests and Communities' proposal - August 2002

Mangrove Acton Project's Statement - August 2002

Towards binding corporate accountability - Friends of the Earth International briefing paper

A Decade After the First Earth Summit, There is Little to Celebrate - By Debi Barker - IFG - July/August 2002 issue of Tikkun Magazine

Caucus de los Pueblos Indígenas - Declaración Inicial sobre Creación de Capacidades - PrepCom IV, WSSD, Bali, Indonesia - Mayo de 2002 (only in Spanish)

Johannesburg 2002: The Road to Sustainable Development? - Articles taken from the Third World Resurgence magazine, Issue No. 139-140 (March-April 2002)

UNCED AND RELATED PROCESSES

Official documents adopted by more than 178 Governments at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) - the Earth Summit, held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 3 to 14 June 1992:

NGO process: The NGO Alternative Treaty on Forests

Processes stemming from the Earth Summit:

In 1995, the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development established the Intergovernmental Panel on Forests (IPF), followed by the Intergovernmental Forum on Forests (IFF), established in 1997 by the United Nations Economic and Social Council.

Documents stemming from Johannesburg Earth Summit, 26 August - 4 September 2002 :

LINKS

The official World Summit on Sustainable Development web page:
http://www.johannesburgsummit.org/

International Institute for Sustainable Development
IISD's Linkages Portal
http://www.iisd.ca/2002/wssd/index.html  

From Rio to Jo'burg. What's the news? 
http://www.rio-plus-10.org
 

Greenpeace International
http://archive.greenpeace.org/earthsummit/

 Rio 10
http://www.rio10.dk/ 

International Institute for Environment and Development
http://www.iied.org/wssd/
 

Stakeholder Forum's Earth Summit web page
http://www.earthsummit2002.org/ 

CHOIKE - Sustainable Development
http://www.choike.org/nuevo_eng/21/38/index.html

International Forum on Globalization (IFG)
http://www.ifg.org/un.html

Third World Network
http://www.twnside.org.sg/wssd.htm
 



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