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Sustainable Development Policy.
The Rio-Johannesburg Process
The sense of a dawning of a new era in Rio was soon followed by disillusionment. After the United Nations ‘Earth Summit’ in Brazil in 1992, the subjects of development and sustainability quickly faded into the background again. Funds for development and environmental policy were cut instead of increased, as promised in Rio. The Environment Minister of the German State of North Rhine-Westphalia, Bärbel Höhn, recalls that in her foreword to the latest InWEnt Themendienst. The conditions for the follow-up conference in Johannesburg (‘Rio plus 10’) in September 2002 also were not good. Nevertheless, Johannesburg delivered some important results. Among them, it confirmed the link between poverty and environmental destruction and further promoted the networking of international civil society. The path from Rio to Johannesburg – read about it in InWEnt Themendienst No. 13.
Daniel Eisermann: Die Politik der nachhaltigen Entwicklung. Der Rio-Johannesburg-Prozess. [ Sustainable Development Policy. The Rio-Johannesburg Process. ] Bonn, InWEnt 2003, 193 pp., ISBN 3-934068-77-4 [In German] Obtainable free from InWEnt Development Information Centre. Tel.: +49 (0)228 2434-5, Fax: +49 (0)228 2434-766, e-mail: izep@inwent.org)
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