INFORME ACTIVIDADES REALIZADAS EN EL MARCO DE LA CUMBRE MUNDIAL, JOHANESSBURGO, AFRICA DEL SUR

This report details the activities of the Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (IAI) during the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) held in Johannesburg, South Africa, in August and September 2002. It outlines the IAI's participation in official sessions and alternative forums, specifically focusing on climate change, biodiversity, and ecosystem monitoring.

• The World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) in Johannesburg aimed to address the integration of human development and environmental sustainability, following a similar summit held ten years prior in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
• The decade between the Rio and Johannesburg summits is characterized as a 'lost decade' because market interests and transnational corporations dominated government priorities over human-centered development, leading to unsustainable living conditions for the poor and an increase in poverty-related diseases like malaria and tuberculosis.
• The official 'Johannesburg Declaration on Sustainable Development' contains 37 points, with at least three directly relating to IAI activities: point 13 on global climate change and natural disasters, point 16 on the conservation and use of biodiversity, and point 18 on basic requirements including clean water, food security, and biodiversity protection.
• The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MEA) forum, held on August 26, emphasized human dependence on ecosystems for food, energy, and clean water, and aimed to create a scientific model to compare ecosystem states across various scales from forests to global analysis.
• In Africa, approximately 180 million people lack sufficient food for a productive life, making them susceptible to HIV-AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria. To combat this, the International Center for Agroforestry developed a soil recovery program using fast-growing legume plantations to improve food production and remove carbon from the atmosphere.
• The global water crisis is described as primarily a problem of governance rather than water scarcity, with one billion people lacking access to pure water and at least half of the world's population living in inadequate sanitary conditions.

APA

Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (2002). INFORME ACTIVIDADES REALIZADAS EN EL MARCO DE LA CUMBRE MUNDIAL, JOHANESSBURGO, AFRICA DEL SUR. https://archive.iai.int/admin/site/sites/default/files/6_Johannesburg_SP.pdf

Chicago

Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research. INFORME ACTIVIDADES REALIZADAS EN EL MARCO DE LA CUMBRE MUNDIAL, JOHANESSBURGO, AFRICA DEL SUR. 2002. https://archive.iai.int/admin/site/sites/default/files/6_Johannesburg_SP.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{interamericaninstituteforglobalchangeresearch2002informe, author = {{Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research}}, title = {{INFORME ACTIVIDADES REALIZADAS EN EL MARCO DE LA CUMBRE MUNDIAL, JOHANESSBURGO, AFRICA DEL SUR}}, institution = {Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research}, year = {2002}, month = nov, url = {https://archive.iai.int/admin/site/sites/default/files/6_Johannesburg_SP.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }