World Summit for Sustainable Development/Rio+10

• SPECIAL FOCUS: WSSD Johannesburg 2002 - A Setback for Sustainable Development
• Efforts for WTO supremacy over all future accords fail
• UN infected by WTO virus
• Implementation plan passed, drama on corporate accountability
  
  
• TWN BRIEFINGS FOR JOHANNESBURG WSSD
  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).
  Click here to view the TWN Briefings!
  
  
• WSSD (Rio+10): Trade, finance issues now at centre on troubled process
  TWN special report on how trade, debt and finance issues are now at the centre stage of the WSSD. Deep North-South disagreements on these topics led to the deadlock in the Bali talks in June. NGOs working on trade and debt should now pay close attention to WSSD.
• Battle of Bali: Last stop before the WSSD
• NGO Major Group Multistakeholder Dialogue Paper for PrepcomIV, Bali (3 May 2002)
• NGO Multistakeholder Dialogue paper for Prep Com II [MS-Word format]
• Critical environmental issues of the 21st century [TWN Briefing Paper]

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SPECIAL FOCUS: Johannesburg 2002: The Road to Sustainable Development?

See Also: International Environmental Governance: Some issues from a developing country perspective

Earth Summit: Plus 5 or Minus Five?

• UN Special Session ends without Political Statement (Martin Khor)
  
• UN Assembly hears call for urgent action (Martin Khor)
  
• G77 asks for international actions (Martin Khor)
  
• Bringing TNCs into the UN framework
  
• Time for people to act on governments (Martin Khor)
  
• Salute to grassroots fighters of sustainable development! (Martin Khor)
  
• Effects of globalization on sustainable development after UNCED (Martin Khor)
  
• TNCs and Globalization: Prime sources of worsening ecological crisis
  
• Technology transfer, intellectual property rights and the environment
  
• Some critical environment issues after Rio (TWN)
  

Commission for Sustainable Development

• CSD staves off US assault on balanced approach to biotech (G.S.Nijar)

Sustainable Development

• International Environmental Governance: Some issues from a developing country perspective (TWN)