World Summit on Sustainable Development: Toward a Post-Jo'burg Environmentalism

World Summit for Sustainable Development

World Summit for Sustainable Development

World Summit for Sustainable Development

World Summit for Sustainable Development

Global civil society? The Johannesburg World Summit on Sustainable Development

In the face of mounting environmental degradation and persistent poverty over the previous decade, Johannesburg’s World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) of August and September 2002 inherited a number of unmet accords from the 1992 Rio de Janeiro Earth Summit. Consequently, the United Nations Stakeholder Forum Implementation Conference (IC) was convened to integrate civil society stakeh...