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Global Strategies For Sustainable Development
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Global Strategies Governments first actively addressed the
issues of global environmental needs when they gathered in
Stockholm in 1972 to take part in the UN Conference on Human
Environment The focus of the conference was international
cooperation regarding the problems the Earths environment was
facing.
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Global Strategies Global Conferences provide a platform for the
development for the global strategies for sustainable development
Rio de Janeiro June 1992 Kyoto December 1997 Johannesburg September
2002 Bali December 2007 Check out the links
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Rio de Janeiro The next UN Conference on Environment and
Development took Place in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, 20 years after
Stockholm This time, as the theme of the conference suggests, the
participating countries focused on a broader issue, namely, the
relationship between environmental trends and development at the
national and international levels. The Rio Convention, also known
as the Earth Summit produced the Rio Declaration and Agenda 21 (a
plan of action for the UN organizations, Governments, and Major
Groups in areas where human activities have a negative impact on
the environment) And also led to agreement on two other conventions
which became open for signature the Framework Convention on Climate
Change (FCCC) Biological Diversity, both legally binding.
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Rio de Janeiro Outcomes The FCCC the most important of the
products of the Rio Convention in terms of leading to the
preparation of the Kyoto Protocol. The FCCC was signed by 154
countries in 1992. Its key points were: 1.Stabilization of the
amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, while also ensuring
food production is not put under threat, and allowing for economic
development to proceed. 2.Developed countries should take the
initiative in reducing levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere
3.No specific greenhouse-gas-reduction aims, time frames, or
penalties for violators were agreed on 4.the participating
countries decided on meeting at COPs (Conferences of the Parties)
on a regular basis to work on the implementation of the Conventions
objectives.
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Kyoto Protocol After 3 Conferences of the Parties (COPs)
meeting in Berlin and Geneva, eventually in Kyoto, Japan in
December 1997 the member countries prepared the Kyoto Protocol The
Kyoto Protocol decided upon: 1.Emission-reduction targets of
greenhouse gases for each of the member countries 2.A greenhouse
gas emission-trading program 3.Holding future meetings to set
penalties for violators of the established targets and regulation
rules of the emission-trading program Under The leadership of
President Bush, America did not support the Protocol The Kyoto
Protocol finally came into effect on February 16, 2005
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Johannesburg The World Summit on Sustainable Development
(WSSD), held in Johannesburg, South Africa from August 26 to
September 4 2002, focused the world's attention and direct action
on meeting difficult challenges, including improving people's lives
and conserving our natural resources in a world that is growing in
population, with ever-increasing demands for food, water, shelter,
sanitation, energy, health services and economic security.
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Johannesburg The main focus of the conference being: Oceans
Coasts Island One of the main successes was that governments agreed
to halve the number of people lacking clean drinking water and
basic sanitation by 2015.
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Bali United Nations Climate Change Conference in Bali December
2007 The Conference brings together representatives of over 180
countries together with observers from intergovernmental and
nongovernmental organizations, and the media The two week period
includes the sessions of the Conference of the Parties to the
UNFCCC, its subsidiary bodies as well as the Meeting of the Parties
of the Kyoto Protocol A ministerial segment in the second week will
conclude the Conference. Check out the links
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Bali The aim is to produce ambitious results capable of
providing a global response to the challenges of climate change and
in particular: The satisfactory implementation of the Kyoto
Protocol for the period 2008 - 2012 The adoption of a road map
leading to a global agreement by 2009 for post 2012 The need to
perpetuate and develop the Kyoto Protocol mechanisms And the
formulation of a differentiated contribution from emerging
countries and other developing countries
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Links & Bibliography
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/~danov20d/site/history.htm
http://www.un.org/geninfo/bp/enviro.html
http://www.globaloceans.org/globalconferences/2001/rio+10/index.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/2540445.stm
http://www.un-documents.net/k-000319.htm
http://www.ambafrance-uk.org/United-Nations-Climate-Change.html
http://www.businessday.co.za/articles/topstories.aspx?ID=BD4A660955
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2007/nov/30/bali.climatechange
http://www.businessday.co.za/articles/topstories.aspx?ID=BD4A660955
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=keZmg56ahdM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tec3alV8xkw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ki8Uv3xIlNk DVD Al Gore An
Inconvenient Truth Hawken, Lovins & Lovins (1999) Natural
Capitalism, Little, Brown