Knowledge Centre : Development Practice : Sustainable Development : 2002 WSSD
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- Background Information (9)
- Key Information Websites (20)
- Information sources relating to the WSSD and sustainable development, including coverage of the event.
- National Reports (7)
- Outcomes (11)
- Includes online transcripts of statements delivered at the WSSD and initiatives, outputs and outcomes of the World Summit.
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- Crumbs For The Poor: Oxfam says that for poverty reduction, WSSD was an opportunity wasted
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3 September 2002. Johannesburg: After nine days of bluster the world gets some gains on a few environmental issues, and on sanitation for the poor. But over all the deal as it appears today is feeble: a triumph for greed and self-interest, a tragedy for poor people and the environment.
http://www.oxfam.org/en/news/pressreleases2002/pr020903_wssd_end.htm
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- Death on the Doorstep of the Summit
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Oxfam Briefing Paper 29. The food crisis has many causes but the most significant according to this report, is the failure of agricultural policies. The paper asks why, after years of World Bank and IMF designed agricultural sector reforms, do Malawi, Zambia and Mozambique face chronic food insecurity. The answer given is that reforms were carried out without first carrying out a serious assessment of their likely impact on poverty and food security. The 'one size fits all' liberalisation policies implemented have failed to lead to growth but have exacerbated the exclusion of the poor from the market. (Description: Eldis Aid)
http://www.oxfam.org.uk/what_we_do/issues/debt_aid/bp29_death.htm
(Added: Fri Sep 13 2002 Modified: Fri Aug 18 2006 Hits: 123)
- Earth Negotiations Bulletin
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A reporting service for environment and developemnt negotiations
http://www.iisd.ca/enbvol/enb-background.htm
(Added: Thu Jul 26 2001 Modified: Thu Sep 14 2006 Hits: 135)
- Eco equity WSSD Issue 7
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Published by Consumers International, Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace, Northern Alliance for Sustainablity, Oxfam International.
http://www.maketradefair.com/assets/english/eco030902.pdf
(Added: Wed Sep 04 2002 Modified: Wed Dec 07 2005 Hits: 89)
- Eco-Equity: Bits and Bobs, 29th August 2002 (pdf)
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World Summit on Sustainable Development, Johannesburg, South Africa. Published by Consumers International, the Danish 92 Group, Earthjustice, Friends of the Earth International, Greenpeace, Northern Alliance for Sustainability, Oxfam International, and WWF
(Added: Wed Sep 04 2002 Modified: Wed Dec 07 2005 Hits: 101)
- Eco-Equity: Issue Seven, 3rd September 2002 (PDF) 'The Leaders Speak'
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World Summit on Sustainable Development, Johannesburg, South Africa. Published by Consumers International, the Danish 92 Group, Earthjustice, Friends of the Earth International, Greenpeace, Northern Alliance for Sustainability, Oxfam International, and WWF
http://www.rio10.dk/upload/att/ijoburg7.pdf
(Added: Wed Sep 04 2002 Modified: Wed Dec 07 2005 Hits: 95)
- Eco-Equity: Issue Two, 27th August 2002 (pdf)
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World Summit on Sustainable Development, Johannesburg, South Africa. Published by Consumers International, the Danish 92 Group, Earthjustice, Friends of the Earth International, Greenpeace, Northern Alliance for Sustainability, Oxfam International, and WWF
(Added: Wed Sep 04 2002 Modified: Wed Dec 07 2005 Hits: 166)
- Getting Traction? Sustainable Development and the Governance of Investment
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Moving on from MAI: creating an ecologically sustainable framework for FDI. This paper explores new approaches to the global governance of investment which could channel investment, especially foreign direct investment (FDI), towards more socially just and ecologically sustainable development. by Lyuba Zarsky. CoDirector Nautilus Institute for Security and Sustainable Development. presented at Conference on Sustainability, Trade and Investment: Which Way Now for the WTO? Royal Institute of International Affairs London, Great Britain March 27-28, 2000.
http://www.nautilus.org/archives/papers/enviro/zarsky_traction.html
(Added: Thu Jul 12 2001 Modified: Mon Sep 04 2006 Hits: 135)
- Global Challenge, Global Opportunity: Trends in Sustainable Development
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If current patterns of development continue, nearly half of the world's people will suffer from water shortages within the next 25 years, the use of fossil fuels, along with greenhouse gas emissions, will grow, and the world's forests will continue to disappear, according to a new United Nations report issued by the Secretariat for the upcoming World Summit on Sustainable Development. With projections indicating that the world's population will grow by about two billion people by 2025, the new report, Global Challenge, Global Opportunity, underscores the need for greatly increased efforts to support sustainable development to better manage global resources in a rapidly changing world (PDF).
(Added: Mon Aug 19 2002 Modified: Fri Sep 15 2006 Hits: 121)
- HIV/AIDS, Human Resources and Sustainable Development (PDF)
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A new UNAIDS report released on the eve of the World Summit on Sustainable Development contends that sustainable development cannot occur if the AIDS epidemic is allowed to deplete human resources. According to HIV/AIDS, Human Resources and Sustainable Development (pdf file), "By robbing communities and nations of their greatest wealth - their people - AIDS drains the human and institutional capacities that fuel sustainable development."
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- IISD Compilation: Earth Negotiations Bulletin and ENB on the Side
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The International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) has posted a complete compilation of its publications "Earth Negotiations Bulletin" and "ENB on the Side". This is a high-quality, full-color PDF and it is very large (21 MEG). It includes all the daily issues of the ENB (about 3000 words each day from the negotiations), the ENB Summary and Analysis and each daily issue of ENB on the Side (coverage of about ten side events each day with full color photos, published in cooperation with UNDP.)
http://www.iisd.ca/linkages/2002/wssd/WSSDcompilation.pdf
(Added: Tue Sep 24 2002 Modified: Mon Dec 05 2005 Hits: 103)
- Improving the Management of Sustainable Development
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The aim of the UNU report is to provide an overview of trends, policies already established, and new policy directions related to critical socio-economic and environmental issues identified in Agenda 21, focusing on three large developing countries: namely, China, India and Indonesia. This report is one of the core outputs of the UNU/IAS project on ³Sustainable Development Frameworks for Developing Countries² carried out during the past five years in collaboration with leading scholars and institutions in those three countries.
http://www.ias.unu.edu/binaries/BaliPrepComReport4.pdf
(Added: Wed Jul 17 2002 Modified: Thu Dec 08 2005 Hits: 159)
- Insurmountable opportunities? Steps and Barriers to Implementing Sustainable Development
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The world has experienced significant developments since its leaders last gathered for an Earth summit. There has been an astounding amount of prgoress towards the goals set forth in Agenda 21, and yet in many ways the situation has become worse rather than better. As we drift along the arc of history, we see ahead of us the risk of both greater environmental peril and social friction. We also see the opportunity of a safer passage to a more just and sustainable global society. By Paul Raskin, Gilberto Gallopin, Pablo Gutman, Al Hammond and Rob Swart. The Global Scenario Group maintains a Secretariat at SEI-Boston that provides scientific and administrative support for the GSG work program. PolarStar Series Report no. 8, 1998.
http://www.rmi.org/images/other/OtherIssues/B01-18_UNPaper-InsurOpp.pdf
(Added: Thu Aug 02 2001 Modified: Thu Dec 08 2005 Hits: 144)
- International Sustainable Development Governance
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The Institute of Advanced Studies of United Nations University released a new report today entitled International Sustainable Development Governance The Question of Reform: Key Issues and Proposals". As international cooperation and institutional responses to sustainable development continue to grow rapidly, progress remains slow. This report examines how changes in international institutions and better coordination between them can help improve environmental quality and promote development.
http://www.ias.unu.edu/binaries/ISDGFinalReport.pdf
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- Managing Sustainability World Bank Style: An Evaluation of the World Development Report 2003 (PDF)
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World Summit Papers of the Heinrich Böll Foundation, No. 19 (2002). The World Bank's annual World Development Report (WDR) is the Bank's flagship publication. This year's WDR 2003 entitled Dynamic Development in a Sustainable World - scheduled to be launched at the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) on August 21, 2002 - represents the major World Bank contribution to the discussion about sustainable development in Johannesburg. Given the importance of the World Bank as both major global development agency and major development financier, the Bank's most "up-to-date" thinking about an ecologically, socially and economically- balanced development deserves scrutiny, attention and critical vigilance by an engaged civil society.
http://www.boell.org/docs/WSP19-WDR2003.pdf
(Added: Tue Sep 24 2002 Modified: Thu Dec 08 2005 Hits: 118)
- Measuring up to Sustainability
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By Alan Fricker, August 2001. As a concept sustainability has captured our imaginations and aspirations. As a tangible and identifiable goal it eludes us. Having developed indicators to measure and monitor economic, social and environmental conditions, we want now to measure sustainability. Our emphasis on the physical, the objective, and the rational however sees only the external manifestations of sustainability.
http://www.dev-zone.org/kcdocs/1665FrickerSustainable.html
(Added: Wed Aug 29 2001 Modified: Thu Dec 08 2005 Hits: 161)
- Monitoring Progress Towards a Sustainable New Zealand
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This new experimental publication "Monitoring Progress Towards a Sustainable New Zealand" provides a selection of information related to sustainable development in New Zealand. The report is a first attempt to bring the information together, and will be reviewed to see if it is meeting needs. From Statistics New Zealand.
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- Producing greener, consuming smarter
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'Producing greener, consuming smarter' summarises key lessons from social science research in the area of sustainable production and consumption. June, 2000. Contributions of Global Environmental Change Programme (GECP) studies to national and international research.
http://www.gecko.ac.uk/doc-c/index.html
(Added: Thu Jul 12 2001 Modified: Thu Dec 08 2005 Hits: 146)
- Religion and Development at the Crossroads: Convergence or Divergence?
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A statement to the World Summit on Sustainable Development by the Bahá'í International Community.
http://www.bic-un.bahai.org/02-0826.htm
(Added: Wed Aug 21 2002 Modified: Fri Aug 18 2006 Hits: 121)
- Report on Outcome of Meeting, East Asia and the Pacific WSSD Roundtable
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Kuala Lumpur KL, Malaysia, 9 - 11 July 2001
http://www.iisd.ca/wssd/meetingscalendar.html
(Added: Fri Aug 03 2001 Modified: Fri Aug 18 2006 Hits: 126)
- The Heinrich Boell Foundation World Summit Papers
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The Heinrich Boell Foundation publishes the World Summit Papers in preparation for the World Summit on Sustainable Development. The Summit will take place in South Africa ten years after the benchmarking UN Conference on Environment and Development (Rio de Janeiro 1992). We consider this Summit 2002 an important opportunity to put the challenge of Sustainable Development on the top of the international agenda. The World Summit Papers are published irregularly and contain a diversity of background information, studies, essays, documentation etc. related to issues of the World Summit. The series is published in various languages both in the Foundation´s head office in Berlin and in several offices of the Foundation abroad. Our intention is to contribute to the preparations of the international community for this Summit.
http://www.worldsummit2002.org/?publications/wspapers14.htm
(Added: Mon Aug 19 2002 Modified: Thu Dec 08 2005 Hits: 119)
- World Development Report 2003: Sustainable Development in a Dynamic Economy
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Sustainable Development in a Dynamic Economy, the World Development Report (WDR) 2003, is the World Bank's contribution to an ongoing international dialogue on sustainable development. To make the report as useful and comprehensive as possible, the WDR 2003 team sought the views of a wide range of key stakeholders: government, civil society, academia, and the private sector world wide.
http://econ.worldbank.org/wdr/wdr2003/
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- WRI expresses disappointment over many WSSD outcomes
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WASHINGTON, DC and JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA, September 4, 2002 -- Despite some advances made by negotiators at the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD), which ends today, the World Resources Institute (WRI) expressed disappointment in the overall outcomes incorporated in the WSSD Plan of Action. "Over-all we must ask, will the poor be better off ten years from now? Will our world be safer or more secure from global environmental threats ten years from now?" said Jonathan Lash, WRI president. "Unfortunately, there are too many gaps and too few teeth in the WSSD Plan of Action." The WRI delegation was particularly disappointed over the governments’ failure to set targets for increases in renewable energy like solar or wind. The United States and other oil producing countries have resisted setting targets for renewable energy, while European countries and some developing countries like Brazil and the Philippines lobbied hard for such targets.
http://newsroom.wri.org/newsrelease_text.cfm?NewsReleaseID=135
(Added: Mon Sep 09 2002 Modified: Fri Aug 18 2006 Hits: 85)
- WSSD: Was it worthwhile? (PDF 228K)
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An International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) paper reviewing the achievements and challenges of the Johannesburg Summit.
http://www.poptel.org.uk/iied/docs/wssd/wssdreview.pdf
(Added: Mon Jul 14 2003 Modified: Wed Oct 04 2006 Hits: 177)
- WSSD: World Summit of Shameful Deals
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From WWF. Johannesburg, South Africa â€" WSSD - The World Summit of Shameful Deals, (formerly known as the World Summit on Sustainable Development) has failed dramatically to take the action needed to reduce the patterns of unsustainable production and consumption that are impoverishing our planet and the people who live on it.
http://www.panda.org/news/press/news.cfm?id=3140
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