Related UN Events
The World Summit on Sustainable Development is, in many respects,
the culmination of a series of intergovernmental events over
the past few years. Most of these events are usually referred
to by the cities they were held in, since they have unwieldly
official titles like "The Seventh Session of the Council
of Parties and Fifteenth Sessions of the Subsidiary Bodies
of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change"
(don't you prefer "Mararakesh" as well?)!
City/Conference Quick Reference
To assist you, here is a brief list of key conferences
you may hear referenced in Johannesburg which have fed into
the Summit process.
Rio (Brazil): UN Conference on Environment
and Development [the Earth Summit] (1992)
Bali (Indonesia): World Summit on Sustainable
Development [PrepCom 4] (2002)
Kyoto (Japan): UN
Framework Convention on Climate Change (1997)
Marrakesh (Morocco): UN
Framework Convention on Climate Change (2001)
Seattle (United States): World Trade Organization
round of trade negotiation (1999)
Doha (Qatar): World Trade Organization
round of trade negotiation (2001)
Monterey (Mexico): Financing for Development
Conference (2002)
Other Resources
SDIN's Issues
pages each have a Documents section which links to the
key documents for particular issues to be discussed at the
Summit.
Stakeholder Forum's "Roadmap
to 2002", also mentioned in the Timelines page,
links to UN events related to specific issues.
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