Earth Summit 2002 : A New Deal

Discusses preparations for Earth Summit 2002, the tenth anniversary of the first Earth Summit in 1992, also discussing the agenda laid out at Earth summit 1992, making a frank assessment of current progress. Sets goals and describes mechanisms that will enable the international community to complete the plans set up in Rio in 1992.

Dedication

ii

List of Figures, Tables and Boxes

v

List of Contributors

vi

Foreword: From Rio to Earth Summit 2002

xii

Klaus Topfer

Introduction

xiv

Derek Osborn

Part I: Roadblocks to Implementing Agenda 21 and How to Overcome Them

Roadblocks to Agenda 21: A Government Perspective

3

(18)

Simon Upton

Implementing Agenda 21: A United Nations Perspective

21

(10)

Nitin Desai

Who is Aware of Agenda 21? Missing Conditions: Three Major

31

(9)

Victoria Elias

Agenda 21 and the Role of Local Government

40

(9)

Jeb Brugman

Workroom versus Boardroom Approaches to Sustainable Development: Reversing the Downward Spiral

49

(16)

Winston Gereluk

Lucien Royer

Women and Sustainable Development: From 2000 to 2002

65

(22)

Minu Hemmati

Part II: A New Charter

A People's Earth Charter

87

(11)

Maximo Kalaw

Part III: Overriding Concerns

International Forest Initiatives

98

(11)

Stephen Bass

A Sustainable Transport Convention for the New Europe

109

(15)

Dieke Peters

Poverty and the Environment

124

(10)

Cletus A Avoka

Financial Resources for the Transition to Sustainable Development

134

(26)

Barbara J Bramble

Trade, Investment and Sustainable Development

160

(9)

Andrew Simms

Civil Society, Business and Sustainable Development: Regulating (almost) Without the Regulation

169

(10)

Rob Lake

Part IV: Emerging Issues

Environment and Security

179

(23)

Margaret Brusasco-Mackenzie

Cities and the Culture of Sustainability

202

(10)

Herbert Girardet

Tourism and the Commission on Sustainable Development

212

(11)

Frans de Man

Sustainable Tourism: A Southern Perspective

223

(6)

Nina Rao

The Titanic Transnationals: Corporate Accountability and Responsibility

229

(15)

Jagjit Plahe

Pieter van der Gaag

Getting Health in a Handbasket

244

(9)

Chip Lindner

Our Common Future and Ten Years after Rio: How Far Have We Come and Where Should We be Going?

253

(11)

Gro Harlem Brundtland

Sustainable Consumption and Production

264

(14)

Laurie Michaelis

Fish Forever

278

(13)

John Gummer

Part V: Overview

Reforming the International Institutions

291

(24)

Felix Dodds

Appendix 1 - List of Acronyms and Abbreviations

315

(8)

Appendix 2 - Address of Contributors

323

(3)

Appendix 3 - UNED-Forum

326

(1)

Index

327

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Earth Summit 2002 : A New Deal

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