World Summit for Sustainable Development 2002

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The World Summit on Sustainable Development ( English World Summit on Sustainable Development , WSSD ) with approximately 20,000 delegates from governments, business, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and local authorities was held from 26 August to 4 September 2002 in Johannesburg ( South Africa instead). The NGOs came together in the congress “A Sustainable World is Possible” (Eng. “A sustainable world is possible”).

Predecessor of the summit was the 1992 in Rio de Janeiro ( Brazil held) of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), the successor to the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development in June 2012, again in Rio de Janeiro, as well as the World Summit on Sustainable Developed in New York in 2015 .

Goal of the summit

The previous conference in Rio is considered a milestone in global environmental and development policy. The Agenda 21 action program made recommendations for action for sustainable development.

In addition to accounting for Agenda 21, the plan to implement Agenda 21 (New York 1997) and the national sustainability strategies, the aim was to update new goals and measures for sustainable development until 2015/2017.

Results

Despite major deficits in implementation, there were hundreds of projects. B. were shown in Ubuntu Village . At the same time, the sessions of the Intergovernmental Conference usually spent hours struggling to find a consensus.

The World Summit on Sustainable Development ended with the adoption of a Political Declaration by the Heads of State and Government (The Johannesburg Declaration on Sustainable Development ) and a 65-page Johannesburg Action Plan (Plan of Implementation) .

The main result of this world summit was that the future path to the implementation of the model of sustainable development was given through new priorities, targets and implementation programs. For the first time, quantifiable goals, especially the Millennium Development Goals, were included in the action plan.

Important new goals:

  • By 2010, the decline in biodiversity and species diversity should be significantly reduced, among other things through the
  • Protect ten percent of the oceans by 2012.
  • By 2015 [obsolete] , the number of people living in absolute poverty (less than € 1 per day) should be reduced by 500 million, all children worldwide should receive a primary education and the proportion of people who do not have access to basic sanitation have to be halved.
  • By 2020, the negative effects on human health and the environment should be minimized in the production and use of chemicals.

Implementation problems

The international initiative for a Global Marshall Plan, supported by many personalities and institutions, has set itself the goal of raising the considerable financial resources for the implementation of the Millennium Development Goals . The consensus is that the growing gulf between words and deeds cannot be closed without additional resources. It is not possible to implement the objectives with the current resources.

Target achievement

In the opening speech of the 10th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP10) , Jochen Flasbarth , head of the German Federal Environment Agency , said in October 2010 that the global community had not achieved the goal of stopping the decline in biodiversity. Nevertheless, progress in species protection can be seen, as the loss of forest areas in some regions has decreased and many countries have developed national strategies for the protection of biodiversity. As an example, he cited the National Strategy on Biological Diversity adopted by the German Federal Cabinet in 2007 .

See also

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Badische-zeitung.de , November 4, 2010: Ban on fishing in the ocean
  2. ↑ n-tv.de: UN Conference on Biological Diversity: New Goals in Species Protection - n-tv.de , October 18, 2010, accessed on August 28, 2011