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Figure 1. Steps to Earth Summit 2002 Towards Earth Summit 2002 UN Sustainable Development Process Key Events 1972 UN Conference on Human Environment (Stockholm) UNEP established 1983 World Commission on Environment and Development Brundtland Commission set up 1982 UNEP’s first high level meeting 1989 Brundtland Report “Our Common Future” 1991 Children’s Summit (New York) 1992 UN Conference on Environment and Development - the “Earth Summit” (in Rio de Janeiro). UN Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD) established 1993 – 1997 UN CSD first five year programme 1997 Rio Summit + 5 review 1992 Framework Convention on Climate Change (FCCC) and Convention on Biological Diversity agreed 1993 Human Rights Summit (Vienna) 1994 Population Summit (Cairo) Convention on Desertification adopted 1995 Social Summit (Copenhagen) Women’s Summit (Beijing) World Trade Organisation (WTO) established Migratory and straddling fish stocks adopted 1996 Human Settlements (Istanbul) Food Summit (Rome) 1998 Convention on Prior Informed Consent adopted 1998 - 2001 CSD second five year programme Overarching theme: poverty eradication, sustainable production and consumption 2001 CSD 10 Global Preparatory Committee 1 Organisational Issues, defining modalities of process National, Sub regional and Regional preparatory meetings 2002 Global Prep Comm. 2 (28 th Jan - 8 th Feb, New York) Substantive review (major group input) Global Prep Comm. 3 (25 th Mar - 5 th April, New York) Finalise review (major group input) Global Prep Comm. 4 (27 th May – June 7 th , Indonesia) Identification of priority issues (2 day major group input) 1999 Cairo + 5 (Population) Kyoto Protocol on Climate Change adopted 2000 Beijing + 5 (Women) Copenhagen + 5 (Social) Millennium Summit (New York) World Youth Forum (Dakar) Biosafety Protocol adopted 2001 UNEP 21st Governing Council (Kenya, February) UN Third Conference on Less Developed Countries (Brussels, May) Istanbul + 5 (Human Settlements, June) New York + 10 (Children) World Food Summit (Italy, November) International Conference on Freshwater (Bonn, December) ?WTO negotiations, including GATS and agriculture 2002 Financing for Development, high level conference (Mexico, March) WORLD SUMMIT ON SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT (Rio’ Earth Summit +10) Johannesburg, South Africa. Monday 26 th August — 6 th September 2002 The UN World Summit on Sustainable Development defining national, regional and global commitments. Including half-day dialogue with major groups. Beyond the Summit … 2
positive responses including the emergence of thousands of Local Agenda 21 initiatives and an enhanced political profile of environmental issues. It led to the formation of the Commission for Sustainable Development (CSD) and many countries set up sustainable development commissions and national strategies for sustainable development. However, the description of sustainable development in Agenda 21 called for total shift in the status quo of prevalent value systems and institutional processes. Such global change could never have occurred over night. When progress was assessed at Rio + 5 (New York, 1997) a number of gaps were identified, particularly with regard to social equity and poverty. This was largely reflected by falling levels of official development assistance (ODA) and growing international debt, along with failures to improve: technology transfer; capacity building for participation and development; institutional coordination; and reduce excessive levels of production and consumption. The review meeting called for the ratification, reinforcement and stronger implementation of the growing number of international agreements and conventions which refer to environment and development. Figure 2. Elements of Agenda 21 Towards Earth Summit 2002 Elements Social and Economic dimensions to development Conservation and management of natural resources Strengthening role of Major Groups Means of Implementation Issues Poverty, Production and Consumption, Health, Human Settlement, Integrated Decision - Making Atmosphere, Oceans and Seas, Land, Forests, Mountains, Biological Diversity, Ecosystems, Biotechnology, Freshwater resources, Toxic Chemicals, Hazardous Radioactive and Solid Wastes Youth, Women, Indigenous Peoples, Non-Government Organisations, Local Authorities, Trade Unions, Business, Scientific and Technical Communities, Farmers Finance, Technology transfer, Information, Public Awareness, Capacity Building, Education, Legal Instruments, Institutional Frameworks Building Momentum Between 2nd– 5th May 2001, proceeding the ninth session of the CSD, the first global preparatory committee (Prep Comm. 1.) for the Summit took place to begin to define the modalities of the various processes in the run up to the summit, as well as for the Summit itself. The date for Earth Summit 2002 has now been set for 26 th August - 6 th of September 2002, to take place in Johannesburg, South Africa. The Preparations for the Summit will take place at local, national, sub-regional, regional and global levels, with the official UN platforms at national, regional and global levels (Figures 3 and 4). Unlike the 1997 review, the Earth Summit 2002 process is undertaking a review of progress in advance of the Summit. This is with the hope that people will arrive at the Summit ready to identify steps to take critical and more problematic areas forward. Donor governments have been requested to further support developing country participation in the process. Numerous reports from different UN bodies are underway to supplement the review process, including UNEP’s Global Environment Outlook, UNDP’s Human Development Report, WHO’s World Health Report, World Bank’s World Development Report, IFAD’s Rural Poverty Report, UNESCO’s World Water Development Report. Also governments have agreed to take account of the outcomes of relevant international processes, including the third Conference for Least Developed Countries, Financing for Development Conference, Conference of the Parties for the various UN global conventions. Possible Outcomes A minimal outcome of the Summit is that it will provide an opportunity to strengthen the global commitments on sustainable development. This includes ratification of agreements, such as the Kyoto and Biosaftey Protocols, along with other outstanding agreements, such as Persistent Organic Pollutants and on Migratory and Straddling Fish Stocks. In addition governments could make specific commitments towards progressing the Millennium Development Goals e.g. health, gender, children, water, poverty, health and education targets. Johannesburg creates the opportunity to define integrated and time bound plans and strategies to meeting these agreements over the next five, ten and fifteen years. 3
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