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- The International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD)
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The International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD) was established in Geneva in September 1996 to contribute to a better understanding of development and environment concerns in the context of international trade. As an independent non-profit and non-governmental organisation, ICTSD engages a broad range of actors in ongoing dialogue about trade and sustainable development. With a wide network of governmental, non-governmental and inter-governmental partners, ICTSD plays a unique systemic role as a provider of original, non-partisan reporting and facilitation services at the intersection of international trade and sustainable development.
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- The Natural Step
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The Natural Step's mission is to accelerate global sustainability by guiding companies and governments onto an ecologically, socially and economically sustainable path. We are working together with some of the largest resource users on the planet to create solutions, innovative models and tools that will lead the transition to a sustainable future. A non-profit, international organization, we use a set of scientifically proven sustainability principles to transform debate into useful discussion and to drive innovation. Through cutting edge research, services and education we are helping to define the emerging field of sustainability and seeding the foundation for global transformation.
http://www.naturalstep.org.nz/
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- Action Group on Erosion, Technology and Concentration (ETC Group)
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ETC group is dedicated to the conservation and sustainable advancement of cultural and ecological diversity and human rights. To this end, ETC group supports socially responsible developments of technologies useful to the poor and marginalized and it addresses international governance issues and corporate power. ETC group works in partnership with civil society organizations (CSOs) for cooperative and sustainable self-reliance within disadvantaged societies, by providing information and analysis of socioeconomic and technological trends and alternatives. This work requires joint actions in community, regional, and global fora. ETC group's strength is in the research and analysis of technological information (particularly but not exclusively plant genetic resources, biotechnologies, and [in general] biological diversity), and in the development of strategic options related to the socioeconomic ramifications of new technologies.
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- ANPED -The Northern Alliance for Sustainability
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ANPED, The Northern Alliance for Sustainability, is a democratic network that links NGOs and voluntary organisations in all parts of the Northern hemisphere, including North America, Western Europe, Central Europe and Eastern Europe Caucacus Central Asia (CE-EECCA). It was founded in 1990 as the Alliance of Northern People for Environment and Development. The impetus for the network was the preparatory process for UNCED in the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe area. ANPED works to promote sustainable societies worldwide. We do this by supporting grassroots activity and participatory democracy and linking NGOs who share our aims. Our aims are to link activities, exchange information and skills on issues of sustainable development and participatory democracy. ANPED brings together groups working on environment, development and health. Our role is to provide services to our member groups, particularly those in CE and the EECCA. These include informational and co-ordinational support. By working on cross-cutting issues which fit into various political processes and organising 'skill-share' sessions, ANPED endeavours to build the capacity of individual NGOs.
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- Organic Farming Flourishes in Cuba
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They call it "la esquina verde," or "the green corner." It's in a residential neighborhood of Havana, where Ydelio Yzquierdo and two other men grow lettuce, parsley, basil and a variety of other vegetables on a plot about a city block long and a half-block wide. It's one of several thousand organic gardens - known here as organoponicos - that have sprung up in Cuba in the past 10 years after the collapse of the Soviet Union led to a severe downturn in Cuban food production. As a result, Cuba's organic food movement has made the country a world leader in low-input sustainable agriculture. Organoponicos range from less than an acre to six acres. It's estimated that Cuba, an island country about the size of Pennsylvania, has more than 81,000 acres of organoponicos. The gardens produce about 250 pounds of food a year for each of Cuba's 11 million people and have generated 300,000 jobs, said Peter Rosset, co-director of Food First and the Institute for Food and Development Policy in Oakland.
http://www.foodfirst.org/archive/media/news/2003/organicincuba.html
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- Debt and Sustainable Human Development (pdf)
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UNDP Technical Advisory Paper No. 4. Management Development and Governance Division Bureau for Development Policy. This paper sets out how the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has defined its role in assisting heavily indebted poor countries. The interven- tions identified are consistent with UNDP's mandate in sustainable human development, and follow three main lines of action: Advocating additional debt relief; Promoting National Partnership Facilities; Capacity-building for effective debt management.
http://mirror.undp.org/magnet/docs/efa/techpaper4/default.htm
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- Earth Policy Institute
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The Earth Policy Institute is dedicated to providing a vision of what an environmentally sustainable economy - an eco-economy - looks like, as well as a roadmap of how to get from here to there.
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- Restructuring the Energy Economy
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Lester Brown of the Earth Policy Institute writes that the key to restoring climate stability is shifting from a fossil fuel based energy economy to one based on renewable sources of energy and hydrogen. Advancing technologies in the design of wind turbines that have dramatically lowered the cost of wind generated electricity to the point where it can be used to produce hydrogen from water, along with the evolution of fuel cell engines, have set the stage for a dramatic restructuring of the world energy economy. The good news is that this shift is under way. The bad news is that it is not happening nearly fast enough to avoid a climate disrupting buildup in atmospheric carbon dioxide levels.
http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/feb2003/2003-02-20b.asp
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- Global Issues
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This comprehensive web site looks into global issues that affect everyone and aims to show how most issues are inter-related. It contains over 5000 links to external articles, web sites reports and analysis. The issues covered range from trade, poverty and globalization, to human rights, geopolitics and the environment.
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- UNEP Looks at Making Green "Cool"
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Hoping to make sustainable living more "cool," the United Nations Environment Programme is launching a new initiative aimed at improving the image of environmentally friendly lifestyle choices. The plan was devised with the help of social scientists. February 5, 2003, ENS.
http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/feb2003/2003-02-05-06.asp
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- State of the World 2003
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If we are going to reverse biodiversity loss, dampen the effects of global warming, and eliminate the scourge of persistent poverty, we need to reinvent ourselves-as individuals, as societies, as corporations, and as governments. In this 20th anniversary edition of a Worldwatch classic, the Institute's highly respected interdisciplinary research team argues that past successes-such as the elimination of smallpox and the encouraging drop in birth rates in many countries-prove that humanity is capable of redirecting itself in positive ways. Most encouraging, the world is sitting on the cusp of similar successes that could usher in a sustainable human civilization. The use of clean, renewable energy technologies, like wind turbines and photovoltaics for example, is growing at over 25 percent per year, and they are increasingly competitive with fossil fuels. Organic farming is the fastest-growing sector of the world agricultural economy, with the potential to rejuvenate rural communities from the Philippines to Sweden. And a quickening of religious interest in humanity's place in the natural environment could awaken a powerful new constituency to the cause of sustainability. The challenges are still immense, of course, as the book also documents, but the building blocks for a historic reinvention of human civilization are now within reach.
http://worldwatch.org/pubs/sow/2003/
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- Hello Life
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Hello Life is a web-based voluntary effort featuring initiatives dedicated to improving the lives of people worldwide. The aim is to embrace life: and to help those less fortunate to embrace it as well. Each month, Hello Life features an extraordinary individual initiative or South-based organization that has made the difference where it counts: at the grassroots.
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- Eco-Expo NZ
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A project aimed at developing demonstration sites that will entertain while informing visitors about our precious environment and the options for sustainable living. Permanent "Expos", which demonstrate ecological land-use, healthy aquatic habitat, rare native plants, eco logical building, energy systems and more. We have plans for a lot of fun features to appeal to all ages. While a place of education and research, the Expo can not be a dry and boring place.
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- Can sustainability sell?
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Author(s): UNEP; McCann-Erickson World Group. Produced by: UNEP International Environmental Technology Centre (IETC) (2002). On the basis of consumer studies, the collective authors of this report argue that far from depressing sales, sustainable principles could be essential to protect both brand health and future profitability... (Eldis) Includes case studies on DuPont, MasterCard, IKEA, General Motors, Turin and Unilever
http://www.uneptie.org/PC/sustain/reports/advertising/can-sustainability-Sell%20.pdf
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- Redefining Progress
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Redefining progress is a non-profit public policy organization that creates policies and tools to encourage accurate market prices, to protect our common social and natural assets, and to foster social and economic sustainability.
http://www.redefiningprogress.org/
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- Sustainable Development in Asia
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On-line publication from Asian Development Bank.
http://www.adb.org/Documents/Books/Sustainable_Dev/default.asp#contents
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- Sustainable Development Research Institute (SDRI)
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The Sustainable Development Research Institute (SDRI) was established in April 1991 to foster policy relevant research on sustainable development. The Institute encourages interdisciplinary collaboration among the faculty, departments and centres at UBC, as well as other institutes and programs undertaking sustainable development research in Canada and around the world. SDRI attempts to break away from the restrictions imposed by the traditional compartmentalization of research, and transcends disciplinary boundaries in its search for solutions.
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- Sustainable Development: Lessons Learned & Challenges Ahead
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By Frannie A. Léautier, Vice President, World Bank Institute. The World Bank provided more than $17,000 million in loans last year to more than 100 developing countries, with the primary goal of helping to reduce poverty. Believing that knowledge builds capacity, and capacity building leads to growth, security, and empowerment of the poor, much of the bank's work has focused on promoting learning and the sharing of knowledge and experience. The bank's learning approaches include innovations such as global electronic knowledge networks and distance learning to extend the reach of knowledge and learning, which lead to an improved quality of life and a reduction in poverty worldwide.
http://usinfo.state.gov/journals/itgic/0402/ijge/gj05.htm
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- The objective of Sustainable Development: are we coming closer?
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by René Von Schomberg (European Commission Directorate General for Research). Part of a series of Foresight Working Papers which aims to stimulate discussion among policy-makers at all levels and the foresight research community at large.This Foresight paper makes the case for an international "third" arena for long-term policy planning in order to allow for regulatory mechanisms beyond national planning and global market regulation. The paper proposes a research agenda to underpin the emergence of such an arena.
http://www.cordis.lu/rtd2002/foresight/working.htm
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- What the (NZ) Government failed to tell us about the Earth Summit in Johannesburg
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By Dr. Jane Kelsey is a Professor of Law at Auckland University. 21 october 2002. Having recently attended the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT) briefing on the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) in Johannesburg, I was appalled at how sanitised it was.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PO0210/S00136.htm
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- Building on Hidden Opportunities to Achieve the Millennium Development Goals
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Poverty reduction through conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity. Growing concern over the effects of biodiversity loss on progress towards sustainable development led to the establishment of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in 1992. To date over 180 countries have ratified it demonstrating a significant global commitment to the cause. The CBD presents a comprehensive series of pragmatic and innovative principles for action, which have been further elaborated by six Conferences of the Parties. Yet there has been insufficient advancement in operational terms. This lack of progress should be taken very seriously as biodiversity loss, together with other forms of environmental degradation, has the potential to undermine progress towards the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals . It is also essential to acknowledge that the 'environment', including biodiversity, offers many interesting poverty reduction opportunities - yet these are often overlooked, and may function outside the prevailing policy environment.
http://www.undp.org/equatorinitiative/documents/pdf/poverty_reduction.pdf
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- A vision of dystopia
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The Guardian 22 August 2002: New York City in 2022. Half the 40 million people in the swarming metropolis are unemployed, the air is thick with pollution, food and water are as precious as jewels. This was the world of the future as envisaged in the sci-fi thriller, Soylent Green, in 1973. Now, according to the World Bank, it could come true unless there are dramatic and immediate changes to the way we live.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,12374,782799,00.html
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- Asia-Pacific countries paying heavy price for 'grow now, clean up later' policy, UN says
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UN News 30 August - Countries in Asia and the Pacific are paying heavily for a "grow now, clean up later" environmental policy, resulting in major ecological problems, including shrinking forests, widespread land degradation and an overall increase in pollution, according to a new United Nations study.
http://www0.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=4586&Cr=asia&Cr1=pacific
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- The future of multilateralism
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By Dr Claude Martin, Director General of WWF International, based in Gland, Switzerland. 4 September 2002 The World Summit on Sustainable Development has failed to come up with a comprehensive action plan for sustainable development. Instead, the result is a compromise that merely maintains the status quo. What then is the future of multilateral attempts to address poverty eradication and environmental protection?
http://www.panda.org/news/features/story.cfm?id=3141
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- Summit Secretary-General Says Completed Negotiations Provide a Solid Foundation For Action
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Johannesburg, 2 September. Agreement was reached on the last remaining provisions of the Plan of Implementation for the World Summit on Sustainable Development, concluding negotiations that have taken place over nine months on three continents, and that will guide implementation for actions to achieve sustainable development.
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- Marches Highlight Breach in Trust
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By Farah Khan, 2nd Sept. A teetering World Summit inside the Sandton Convention Centre - the reasons volubly displayed outside where a sea of protestors arrived after a nine km long march. The series of protest marches on Saturday highlighted the issues still cleaving apart the summit as ministers arrived to sign a final deal: how to define globalisation, how to deal with an unjust trade regime, how to deal with debt and what to do about social exclusion. "The landless have landed; water for the thirsty," shouted a leader aboard an open truck as it wound its way to a stop at Speakers Corner, the barricaded spot the UN has set aside for the range of protests that have wound their way to the World Summit venue throughout the week. Sat's first march was the largest, at between 15, 000 and 20, 000 people. It yoked together the nationally and internationally excluded; and the glitterati of the left, including the Canadian author Naomi Klein and Food First's Annuradha Mittal. (TerraViva)
http://www.ipsnews.net/riomas10/0209_12.shtml
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- Negotiations on Johannesburg Summit Action Plan Enters Final Phase
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Johannesburg, 2 September" Agreement has been reached on virtually all of the World Summit on Sustainable Development's Plan of Implementation, with the notable exception of several key provisions on energy. Among the provisions that were agreed upon in ministerial negotiating session last night, was a commitment to set a goal for reducing by half the proportion of people who lack access to proper sanitation by 2015, efforts to reduce the loss of biodiversity, on good governance, to promote corporate responsibility, and to reaffirm the Rio Principles, including the precautionary principle and the principle of common but differentiated responsibilities. The remaining unresolved issues involve energy issues, including setting a target for achieving a certain level of renewable energy use and whether countries should establish programmes to improve access to reliable and affordable energy services.
http://www.un.org/jsummit/html/whats_new/feature_story35.htm
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- Rapid Environment And Development International Timetable (READIT)
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The new 'do-it-yourself' on-line calendar of sustainable development events - READIT allows users to publicise their own events to a world-wide audience, find out about other events in their own country or across the globe, and research past events for scientific conference results, NGO recommendations, government and inter-governmental decisions and partners for new and innovative projects. Users may enter events which relate directly or indirectly to environment and/or development, human rights, peace, etc. Readers can search for information on meetings using 76 subject fields or their own search terms. READIT was originally published in 1990-91 ahead of UNCED in Rio de Janeiro in 1992. The new READIT is an events data base offered as a free service to the sustainable development movement in the lead up to the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg, 2002. The calendar is not however limited to WSSD related events, and is intended to be used well beyond 2002.
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- Business & Biodiversity: The Handbook for Corporate Action
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by Earthwatch Institute (Europe), IUCN and WBCSD. IUCN and WBCSD have joined forces with Earthwatch Institute (Europe) to develop a new Handbook for Corporate Action. The Handbook provides information on the business case for biodiversity, an overview of hot issues, and guidance on biodiversity management strategies. Throughout this electronic version, links to extended case studies are provided. This website is the online companion to the Handbook. In addition to the Handbook itself, it hosts extended case studies, biodiversity resources and a training presentation.
http://www.wbcsd.org/DocRoot/ob3ZstqTvcmXQVtEtMxh/20020819_biodiversity.pdf
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- The Best Practices and Local Leadership Programme (BLP)
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The Best Practices and Local Leadership Programme (BLP) is a global network of institutions dedicated to the identification and exchange of successful solutions for sustainable development. The Best Practices and Local Leadership Programme (BLP) of the United Nations Centre for Human Settlements (Habitat), is a global network of capacity-building organisations dedicated to sharing and applying the lessons learned from innovative practices. Together with the Urban Indicators Programme, the BLP forms the Global Urban Observatory, one of the principal means of monitoring and supporting the implementation of the Habitat Agenda and Agenda 21. The BLP partners' network identifies initiatives in such areas as housing, urban development and governance, the environment, economic development, social inclusion, crime prevention, poverty reduction, women, youth, infrastructure and social services.
http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/peo_gen_emp-people-gender-empowerment
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- Major Progress in Summit Talks on Finance and Trade
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Johannesburg, 28 August- Major progress has been made in the negotiations on the major outcome document for the World Summit on Sustainable Development on issues relating to trade and finance questions, which include some of the most contentious issues the Summit has faced. But negotiators have agreed on about 99 per cent of the text concerning finance and about 80 per cent of the section on trade, with the agreements drawing heavily on language from the World Trade Organization meeting in Doha, Qatar, last November, and the International Conference on Financing for Development held in Monterrey, Mexico, in March. Overall, about 88 per cent of the outcome document is complete, and of the 156 paragraphs that were in dispute at the start of the Summit, 76 are still outstanding.
http://www.un.org/jsummit/html/whats_new/feature_story28.htm
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- Nigerian Teens Wow Audience and Warn African Leaders: Interview with Temidayo Israel Abdulai and Bl
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allAfrica.com, August 29, 2002. This dynamic duo stole the show on Wednesday in Johannesburg at the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD). The session was entitled "Children: vital partners in globalization and earth preservation". The Nigerian twosome pulled no punches, drawing applause, smiles and cheers from a mixed group of children, teenagers and adults. Along with other young delegates, Dayo and Blessing sent a direct and outspoken message to the one hundred world leaders expected in Johannesburg to endorse any agreement on sustainable development reached by negotiators in the next few days. That message was: Invest in your children. Consider the children in whatever decisions you take. After their presentations, allAfrica.com's Ofeibea Quist-Arcton caught up with the popular teenagers, who were being embraced and congratulated like pop stars.
http://allafrica.com/stories/200208290001.html
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- UN Johannesburg summit agrees to replenish fisheries by 2015
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UN News Service, 28 August - In a bid to reverse years of declining fish stocks, negotiators at the United Nations World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg, South Africa, agreed today to restore depleted fisheries by 2015. About three quarters of the world's fisheries are fished to their sustainable limits or beyond, according to UN officials, and today's agreement marks a major commitment to marshalling resources and political will to ensure the responsible management of a valuable source of food.
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=4573&Cr=johannesburg&Cr1=summit
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- World Bank paints picture of catastrophic global future
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New York City in 2022. Half the 40 million people in the swarming metropolis are unemployed, the air is thick with pollution, food and water are as precious as jewels. This was the world of the future as envisaged in the sci-fi thriller, Soylent Green, in 1973. Now, according to the World Bank, it could come true unless there are dramatic and immediate changes to the way we live.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/GWeekly/Story/0,3939,782396,00.html
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- World Business Council on Sustainable Development
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The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) is a coalition of 160 international companies united by a shared commitment to sustainable development via the three pillars of economic growth, ecological balance and social progress. Our members are drawn from more than 30 countries and 20 major industrial sectors. We also benefit from a Global Network of 40 national and regional business councils and partner organizations involving some 1000 business leaders globally. The WBCSD was formed in January 1995 through a merger between the Business Council for Sustainable Development (BCSD) in Geneva and the World Industry Council for the Environment (WICE) in Paris. Since then, we have become the pre-eminent business voice on sustainable development issues and are playing a leading role in shaping business's response to the challenges of sustainable development.
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- Arrests, Teargassing Mar World Summit Preparations
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JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, August 22, 2002 (ENS) - The first signs of looming conflict at the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg are beginning to show even before the summit opens August 26. On Wednesday, 114 former freedom fighters claimed they were teargassed in police cells after being arrested while travelling to a planned protest outside parliament this week. In addition, 72 landless people and land activists and a journalist were arrested Wednesday as part of the South African government's crackdown on demonstrations during the summit. Those arrested include most of the Gauteng leadership of the national Landless People's Movement including LPM Gauteng Chairperson Maureen Mnisi.
http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/aug2002/2002-08-22-03.asp
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- Ecological Farming - Reducing Hunger and Meeting Environmental Goals
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Since the Rio Earth Summit in 1992, agriculture remains high on the international agenda because it brings together critical issues like water, poverty, hunger, and health. Governments, farmers, scientists, and others will gather at the World Food Summit in Rome this week to assess the progress towards eradicating hunger, and the U.N. Secretary General has already identified agriculture as one of the priority areas for the Johannesburg Summit in August.
http://www.worldwatch.org/worldsummit/briefs/20020611.html
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- Sustainable Development Issues Network
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The Sustainable Development Issues Network for 2002 is a collaborative effort among civil society networks and nongovernmental issue caucuses aiming to improve communications and access to information on sustainable development issues.
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- The World Bank-Sustainable Development
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The role of the Environmentally and Socially Sustainable Development (ESSD) Network is to promote sustainable development within the World Bank by ensuring that actions taken today to promote development and reduce poverty do not result in environmental degradation or social exclusion tomorrow.
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- Unions, Innovation and Sustainable Development
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From the New Zealand Council of Trade Unions, this document outlines their arguement for a social development approach to development rather than an economic growth strategy which increases income disparities, simply allows profits to flow offshore, and increases social tensions. CTU booklet launched on 15 August, 2002
http://www.union.org.nz/files/policy/files/Innovation.pdf
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- What's Good for Women is Good for the World
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Throughout the 1990s, several major United Nations conferences stressed the importance of including women in sustainable development. But despite these commitments on paper, there has been far too little action. True and meaningful equity between women and men will take much more than inserting a paragraph here and there in the documents issued at a United Nations convention or in national laws. Supplied by Worldwatch, a non profit public policy research organization.
http://www.worldwatch.org/press/news/2002/04/30/
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- Corporate Citizenship - Revisiting the Relationship between Business, Good Governance and Sustainability
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Agenda 21 has not aged well. Today s agenda on business and sustainable development is both broader and deeper than that of the early 1990s. Eco-efficiency is still there, but corporate responsibility , corporate social responsibility and corporate citizenship have all become mainstream terms in sustainable development thinking. Specialist corporate citizenship organisations have blossomed; new management and accounting tools have been developed; and issues have emerged within the business and sustainable development agenda that were not there at the time of Rio - business and conflict; business and human rights; business and sustainable livelihoods.
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- Health and Environment: Supporting Sustainable Livelihoods
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"Human beings are at the centre of concerns for sustainable development. They are entitled to a healthy and productive life in harmony with nature." WHO Prosperity, equality, better health and the environment are inter-related elements towards obtaining a better future. This paper presents some of the most pressing global and regional environmental health problems and the strategies that need to be reinforced at Earth Summit 2002.
http://www.earthsummit2002.org/es/issues/health/health.pdf
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- Best-of-Reports: Focus on Women and Sustainable Development
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To mark International Women's Week, Reports magazine is running a retrospective of stories that focus on gender and research for sustainable development (March 8, 2002).
http://www.idrc.ca/es/ev-5499-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html
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- Center for Alternative Development Initiatives (CADI)
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The Center for Alternative Development Initiatives (CADI) is a Philippine-based civil society organization (CSO) dedicated to the study, encouragement and implementation of sustainable development through threefolding, partnerships. CADI was established in February 1988 to spread the reality of holistic sciences and philosophies of human beings, society and nature.
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- GlobeNet3 : Global Network for Social Threefolding
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Harmonizing and mobilizing the three realms of society- economy, polity and culture-towards comprehensive sustainable development by: • supporting the role of civil society as a force for social transformation, and • promoting threefolding partnerships among business, government and civil society, where appropriate.
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- Boycott America
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A useful website, set up in protest at Bush's (read 'corporate America's) position on the Kyoto Protocol on climate change.
http://www.boycottamerica.org/
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- Development Alternatives Group (DA Group)
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The Development Alternatives Group (or the "DA Group") comprises Development Alternatives and its associate organisations in India: namely, TARA (Technology and Action for Rural Advancement) and People First. It also includes their respective subsidiaries, Tara Nirman Kendra, Tara Leasing and Finance and DESI Power. The activities of the DA Group broadly cover the three primary areas that underlie any form of sustainable development process: the design and large-scale dissemination of appropriate technologies, environmental management systems and effective people-oriented institutions and policies.
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- Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI)
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SEI is an independent, international research institute specializing in sustainable development and environment issues. It works at local, national, regional and global policy levels. The SEI research programme aims to clarify the requirements, strategies and policies for a transition to sustainability. These goals are linked to the principles advocated in Agenda 21 and the Conventions such as Climate Change, Ozone Layer Protection and Biological Diversity.
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- The Sustainable Development Communications Network (SDCN)
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It will significantly increase global awareness of and access to the knowledge held by Southern organizations on how to address the challenges of sustainable development. Through the exchange of skills, experience and innovations among all members, the SDCN will contribute to the creation of a new model of international cooperation and development.
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- Forum for the Future
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Forum for the Future was founded in 1996 by three of the UK's leading advocates of sustainable development - Jonathon Porritt, Sara Parkin and Paul Ekins. The Forum channels its work through seven main activities, a mix of consultancy, research, advocacy, education, media provision, and capacity building in the business, government and higher education sectors. The Core Programmes within the Forum provide a complete and integrated solution to sustainability issues in the sectors outlined above.
http://www.forumforthefuture.org.uk/
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- International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD)
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For development to be sustainable it must integrate environmental stewardship, economic development and the well-being of all people-not just for today but for countless generations to come. This is the challenge facing governments, non-governmental organizations, private enterprises, communities and individuals. The International Institute for Sustainable Development meets this challenge by advancing policy recommendations on international trade and investment, economic policy, climate change, measurement and indicators, and natural resource management to make development sustainable. By using Internet communications, we cover and report on international negotiations and broker knowledge gained through collaborative projects with global partners, resulting in more rigorous research, capacity building in developing countries and a better dialogue between North and South.
(Added: Wed Aug 15 2001 Modified: Thu Apr 20 2006 Hits: 209)
- Earthscan
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Earthscan is widely recognized as the UK's leading publisher of books on environment and sustainable development. Their publishing aim is to increase understanding of environmental issues and their implications at all levels, from the local to the global, and to influence opinion and policy in ways that promote sustainable forms of development.
(Added: Fri Aug 10 2001 Modified: Wed Dec 07 2005 Hits: 206)
- Global Scenario Group
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The Stockholm Environment Institute convened the Global Scenario Group (GSG)in 1995 to examine the prospects for world development in the twenty-first century. It is an independent, international and interdisciplinary body engaged in an on-going process of scenario development. A central theme is the policies, actions and human choices required for a transition to a more sustainable and equitable future. The diversity and continuity of the GSG offers a unique resource to researchers, decision-makers and the general public. The GSG conducts research, provides global assessments and collaborates on regional and national scenario studies.
(Added: Thu Jul 12 2001 Modified: Fri Dec 09 2005 Hits: 175)
- Alternative Information & Development Centre (AIDC)
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The AIDC is an alternative information centre doing research, education and training, as well as campaigning and lobbying on the macro issues affecting the development process in South Africa.
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- SD Gateway
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The SD Gateway integrates the online information developed by members of the Sustainable Development Communications Network (formerly the Spinning the Web Network). In addition to over 1,600 links in the SD Primer, we provide services such as a calendar of events, a job bank, the Sustainability Web Ring, and listings of mailing lists (listservs) and news sites dealing with sustainable development.
(Added: Fri Dec 17 1999 Modified: Wed Dec 07 2005 Hits: 197)
- Learning For Sustainability
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The Learning For Sustainability website is a resource for government, natural resource management and development agency staff, NGOs and other community leaders working to support multi-stakeholder learning processes to guide sustainable development activities. This guide to on-line resources highlights a number of topic areas that are relevant to social learning.
http://learningforsustainability.net/
(Added: Wed May 05 1999 Modified: Wed Jun 13 2007 Hits: 432)
- Sustainable Development WWW Virtual Library
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A comprehensive list of internet sites dealing with sustainable development, including organisations, projects and activities, electronic journals, libraries, references and documents, databases, directories or metadatabases
http://www.ulb.ac.be/ceese/meta/sustvl.html
(Added: Tue Apr 06 1999 Modified: Wed Dec 07 2005 Hits: 385)
