1 / 26

After Johannesburg The way to sustainable development

After Johannesburg The way to sustainable development. Pekka Haavisto GRID - Arendal 10 June 2002. Johannesburg 2002. 26th August – 4th September 2002 in Johannesburg, South Africa WSSD = World Summit on Sustainable Development ”People, Planet and Prosperity”

brian
Download Presentation

After Johannesburg The way to sustainable development

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. After JohannesburgThe way to sustainable development Pekka Haavisto GRID - Arendal 10 June 2002

  2. Johannesburg 2002 • 26th August – 4th September 2002 in Johannesburg, South Africa • WSSD = World Summit on Sustainable Development • ”People, Planet and Prosperity” • Links between environment, poverty and development • Review of the implementation of Rio

  3. Milestones to Johannesburg • Stockholm 1972: Human Environment • Our Common Future 1987 (Brundtland report) • Rio 1992: Environment and Development (UNCED, ”Earth Summit”) • Agenda 21: Plan of action • Johannesburg 2002: Sustainable Development (WSSD)

  4. Rio Earth Summit 1992 • Participation: 172 governments, 108 heads of states, 2,400 NGO representatives, 17,000 activists in the parallel NGO forum • Results: Agenda 21, Rio Declaration on Environment and Development, Statement of Forest Principles, Convention on Climate Change, Convention on Biological Diversity • New UN mechanisms: Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD)

  5. Momentum? • Stockholm 1972: End of colonialism, Limits to Growth (Club of Rome) • Rio 1992: End of cold war, new independent states, environment and development (Brundtland-report) • Johannesburg 2002: War against terrorism, global deal

  6. Key issues for Johannesburg • Poverty, development, environment • Financing for development (”Global deal”) • Global environmental governance (”World environmental organisation WEO”) • Implementation of environmental agreements (e.g. Kyoto protocol) • Multi-stakeholder process: private sector, local level, NGO’s

  7. Preparations for Johannesburg • UN reports • Regional round tables, regional proposals • NGO-forums • Country progress reports (and shadow reports) • Best practices • Prep-coms: US New York March 2002, Indonesia Bali May 2002

  8. An African conference • African renaissance • Poverty and environment • AIDS ans other deseases • Water • Desertification and land degradation • Women and development • Good governance, conditionality

  9. Energy consumption 1995

  10. Resource flows to developing countries 1988-1996

  11. Growing disparitiesin incomes among regions

  12. Top 15 recipients of FDI

  13. External debt of developing countries 1971-1997

  14. Total net ODA 1950-1997

  15. Monterrey: EU Commitments • An average 0,39 % ODA target by 2006 • Minimum country level 0,33 % by 2006 • Additional 7 billion USD by 2006 • EU represents more than 50 % ODA worldwide • 25,4 billion USD in 2000

  16. Monterrey: US commitments • ODA increasing by 5 billion USD in next three years • 50 % increase of US ODA • Accountability • Conditionality: democracy, human rights, anti-corruption...

  17. Global environmental governance • More than 500 international treaties and agreements, 320 regional • 41 core multilateral environmental agreements (MEA’s), separate secretariats • Problems in compliance, enforcement and financing of the treaties • Trade has been taking over environment

  18. Countries reporting their environmental performance

  19. UN system incoherent • UNEP United Nations Environment Programme • CSD Committee on Sustainable Development • UNDP United Nations Development Programme • Other special agencies (WHO, FAO, UNICEF etc.) • GEF Global Environment Facility • Environmental conventions • Need of coherence in UN & environment

  20. Private sector • Role of multi-national companies • Foreign direct investments (FDI) increasing • Voluntary commitments • Code of conducts • Global Compact (UN)

  21. Non-governmental organisations • Democratic rights • Human rights • Access to information • Public participation • Local agenda 21´s • ”Global Århus” • NGO representation in global processes

  22. What is needed? • World Environment Organisation (WEO) • Secured financing for global environmental governance • World Sustainable Development Forum (renewed ECOSOC?) • New mechanisms for public participation (global democracy) • Reliable information on environment

  23. Information for decision making • Scientific uncertainties • Precautionary principle • Early warnings • Difficulties to define sustainable development (”sustainable growth, sustainable economic development etc.”) • Political fights (climate...)

  24. Challenges for GRID-Arendal • Define your strenghts • Make a division of work with others (REC, EEA, WCMC etc) • Criterias & statistics for sustainable development and environment & development • Climate & flexible mechanisms ”the only game in town” • Creeping crisis, conflicts of the future

  25. Thank you

More Related