Making globalisation sustainable? - Nierynck Eddy
The Johannesburg summit on sustainable development and beyond
KORTE INHOUD
The World Summit on Sustainable Development was held in Johannesburg from 26 August to 4 September 2002. It was convened by the United Nations to provide renewed political impetus for a comprehensive effort to push forward the sustainable development agenda throughout the world and respond to the new challenges and opportunities that have arisen since the Rio Summit, held in 1992. The Johannesburg Summit resulted in a consensus on a plan of implementation and a short political declaration. The Department of Human Ecology of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), the Institut de Gestion de l'Environnement et d'Amenagement du Territoire of the Universite Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), the University Centre for Development Co-operation (UCOS) and the Brussels Office of the British Council organised a symposium on "Making Globalisation Sustainable? The Johannesburg Summit on Sustainable Development and beyond". It took place on 12 November 2002, at the VUB, attended by about three hundred participants. These proceeding...
