IISD's portal to the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg, 2002


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What's New!

Introduction to the Summit
GA Resolution on Summit

ENB's Coverage of UNCED PrepCom IV

ENB's Daily Coverage of UNCED

The CSD Process: CSD 1-9

Key Players photo Gallery

Global Trends, Global Opportunity, Trends in Sustainable Development, Aug 2002. New UN report highlights need to address damaging trends.

Pre-Publication Release of the 2002 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines, Aug 2002. Global Reporting Initiative releases a pre-publication version of the new GRI guidelines.

Global Environmental Governance: Options and Opportunities, Aug 2002. Edited by Yale University, this book will be officially launched at the WSSD.

World Summit Policy Briefs, July - Aug 2002. Worldwatch Institute has released its eighth policy brief on freshwater issues, and its ninth issue on mining.

Stumbling Towards Sustainability, July 2002. A new book from the Environmental Law Institute looks at U.S. sustainable development efforts since Rio.

WSSD Manual in Arabic, July 2002. The Arab Middle East Office of the Heinrich Boell Foundation has compiled an Arabic World Summit Manual, for distribution to civil society activists from different Arab countries.

Jo'burg Memo. Heinrich Boell Foundation's contribution to the debate on both the desired outcomes of the Summit and the critical path for the sustainable development agenda in the next decade.

Global Environment Outlook 3, May 2002. In a 30-year retrospective analysis, UNEP's GEO-3 provides an integrated explanation of the conditions and trends, and associated policy responses, that have shaped our environmental inheritance.

10 years after Rio: the UNEP assessment, May 2002. This UNEP overview report assesses progress to date by industry on sustainability issues. It draws on 22 global sustainability reports written by different industry sectors ranging from accounting and advertising to waste and water management.

IIED's

The Future is Now Vol. 3: Challenges for Indonesia, May 2002.

Network 2002 Newsletter is produced monthly in the lead up to the Summit. Network 2002 tracks the agenda and engages dialogue, keeping your finger on the pulse.

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WSSD Outcome documents

Plan of Implementation, 10 September

Political Declaration, 10 September

Earth Negotiations Bulletin (ENB) and ENB on-the-side daily coverage, summary and analysis of the WSSD

are available at http://enb.iisd.org/2002/wssd/index.html

Sustainable Development Successes and Failures since the 1992 Rio Earth Summit

IISD's "Ten+Ten" looks at sustainable development's recent history: What has the world accomplished since 1992, where have we all fallen short and what might tomorrow look like? IISD has identified the WSSD "top 10" times two: the 10 under-celebrated successes in the last 10 years and the 10 glaring failures. Click here for Ten+Ten.

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CALENDAR of MEETINGS

WSSD: Johannesburg, 26 August - 4 Sept

PARALLEL EVENTS AT WSSD:

Ubuntu Exhibition: Sandton, 10 Aug - 10 Sept

Global Judges Symposium: Jo'burg, 18-20 Aug

Int'l Youth Summit: NW Province, 19-23 Aug

Civil Society Forum: NASREC, 19 Aug - 4 Sept

Int'l Indigenous Peoples' Summit on Sustainable Development: Kimberly, 20-23 Aug

7th Living Lakes Conf: Pretoria, 20-25 Aug

Responsible Tourism: Cape Town, 21-23 Aug

2nd S-S Biopiracy Summit: Sandton, 22-23 Aug