REPORT ON ACTIVITIES WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK OF THE WORLD SUMMIT, JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA

The report details the IAI's participation in the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) in Johannesburg. It highlights the 'Johannesburg Declaration on Sustainable Development', specifically articles 13, 16, and 18, which address climate change, biodiversity, and basic human requirements. The author notes a 'lost decade' between the Rio and Johannesburg summits, citing increased global warming and poverty. The report also covers unofficial forums, including the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment and discussions on African agriculture and the global water crisis.

• The decade between the Rio and Johannesburg summits is characterized as a "lost decade" where market interests and transnational corporations took precedence over human-centered development, leading to unsustainable living conditions for the poor.
• Environmental conditions have deteriorated over the last ten years, with reports of an increase in catastrophic events, rising global warming, and unpredictable meteorological patterns, which have negatively impacted food production and hunger, especially in Africa.
• The Johannesburg Declaration on Sustainable Development contains specific commitments relevant to IAI, including Article 13 on the evident adverse effects of climate change and the vulnerability of developing countries, Article 16 on using biodiversity for sustainable development, and Article 18 on increasing access to clean water, energy, food security, and biodiversity protection.
• The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MEA) initiative aims to generate scientific progress on ecosystem changes and human well-being by producing models to compare ecosystem states across various spatial scales, from forests to global analysis.
• In Africa, an intensive soil recovery program led by the International Center for Research in Agriculture and Forestry uses fertilization with quick-growing legumes to alleviate poverty and remove carbon from the atmosphere through "clean" mechanisms.
• The global water crisis is identified as a problem of socio-political governability rather than a physical shortage of water, affecting one billion people's access to pure water and leaving half the world's population in inadequate sanitary conditions.
• Despite the Johannesburg Summit, the global community remains divided on issues such as globalization, transgenesis, biodiversity, and climate change, with the Official Agenda (Agenda 21) still guiding policies despite various alternative environmentalist proposals.

APA

Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (2002). REPORT ON ACTIVITIES WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK OF THE WORLD SUMMIT, JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA. https://archive.iai.int/admin/site/sites/default/files/6_Johannesburg.pdf

Chicago

Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research. REPORT ON ACTIVITIES WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK OF THE WORLD SUMMIT, JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA. 2002. https://archive.iai.int/admin/site/sites/default/files/6_Johannesburg.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{interamericaninstituteforglobalchangeresearch2002report, author = {{Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research}}, title = {{REPORT ON ACTIVITIES WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK OF THE WORLD SUMMIT, JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA}}, institution = {Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research}, year = {2002}, month = nov, url = {https://archive.iai.int/admin/site/sites/default/files/6_Johannesburg.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }