TWN BRIEFINGS FOR WSSD JOHANNESBURG SUMMIT

For the World Summit on Sustainable Development now going on in Johannesburg, TWN has produced several briefing papers highlighting some of the key issues that will be discussed at the Summit.

These issues range from the economic (N-S relations, debt, ODA, WTO, commodities, IPRs), to the social (health) and environment (biotech, biodiversity, water).

• Briefing No.1: WSSD Johannesburg 2002 - Where we are and what's needed now (Martin Khor)

• Briefing No.2: Hope or despair - Scenarios of what may happen at WSSD (Hira Jhamtani)

• Briefing No.3: Will WSSD endanger the UN's multilateral system? (Saradha IR)

• Briefing No.4: Key issues in the WSSD governance debate (Saradha IR)

• Briefing No.5: Making big corporations accountable should be WSSD's top priority (Martin Khor)

• Briefing No.6: IPRs and biodiversity - Stop the theft of indigenous knowledge (Martin Khor)

• Briefing No.7: Pills, patents and profits - The fight for affordable medicines for all (Cecilia Oh)

• Briefing No.8: Comments on the ODA issue in the WSSD draft plan (Goh Chien Yen)

• Briefing No.9: Comments on the trade aspects in the WSSD draft plan (Martin Khor)

• Briefing No.10: Comments on the external debt aspects of the WSSD draft plan (Goh Chien Yen)

• Briefing No.11: Comments on the treatment of the international financial architecture in the WSSD action plan (Goh Chien Yen)

• Briefing No.12: Proposals to reform the international financial system (Martin Khor)

• Briefing No.13: WTO - The new threats to developing countries and sustainability (Martin Khor)

• Briefing No.14: Tackling the commodity price crisis should be WSSD's priority (Celine Tan)

• Briefing No.15: Climate change - Update on situation and comment on WSSD text (Yin Shao Loong)

• Briefing No.16: The water crisis - Analysis and proposals (Celine Tan)

• Briefing No.17: Investing in biotech is risky as sector becomes economically unviable (Chee Yoke Heong)

• Briefing No.18: Sustainable agriculture - The ecological, social and economic issues and the real test for WSSD (Martin Khor)

• Briefing No.19: Sustainable agriculture is productive! (Lim Li Ching)

• Briefing No.20: A review of the economics of agricultural biotechnology crops (Chee Yoke Heong)

• Briefing No.21: Genetically modified organisms 25 years on (M.W. Ho and Joe Cummins)

• Briefing No.22: Genetic engineering and bioweapons (Mae-Wan Ho)

• Briefing No.23: Gene therapy - A sustainable approach to health? (Mae-Wan Ho)