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Johannesburg, 26th August – 4th September 2002

WSSD - documents available now! (4th September)

- Johannesburg declaration (doc1, doc2)
- Implementation plan (one document)

Find below how to contact FoE representatives at the Summit  in Johannesburg, where to find relevant documents and interesting  background information, and how to get active yourself!

Contact of FoE Press Officers and Spokespeople at the Earth Summit
    
www.foei.org/media/2002/contacts_wssd.htm


Link to FoEE key demands 
    
www.foeeurope.org/publications/FoEEWSSDdemandsJuly2002.pdf


Link to the special FoEI Summit Website ‘Rio-plus-10.org’

 

  Visit the Friends of the Earth International’s guide to the World Summit for Sustainable Development (WSSD) in Johannesburg. There you will find latest information on the issues discussed, reports from all over the world illustrating the real extent of the problems to be addressed, and background information as much as position papers.
http://www.rio-plus-10.org/
     
  And there are ways YOU can make a difference! You can send your message to the Heads of State and become part of a major art installation that FoEI is commissioning outside the conference center.
     
  Radio Earth Summit is a project of Friends of the Earth International. It is focusing on gathering stories from people who have been affected by the activities of multinational corporations. Listen to the messages from Manu Chao, Thom Yorke from Radiohead, or from Arundhati Roy, the Booker Prize winning fiction writer. http://www.radioearthsummit.org/

 

    Want to know more?

 • Background information from Friends of the Earth International

*  Official FoEI site for the WSSD
www.rio-plus-10.org/

* FoEI Position Paper: ‘Towards binding corporate accountability’
www.rio-plus-10.org/en/positions/26.php

* Media briefing: Why a global framework for binding corporate accountability must be agreed at the WSSD in Johannesburg!
From Friends of the Earth England, Wales and Northern Ireland
Media Briefing

* New FoEI publication: "Clashes with corporate giants: 22 campaigns for biodiversity and community"
www.foei.org/publications/corporates/clashes_corporate_giants.pdf

* FoEI position Paper: ‘International environmental governance’
www.rio-plus-10.org/en/positions/29.php

* Statement: Save Multilateral Environmental Agreements from the WTO
www.rio-plus-10.org/en/positions/35.php

* ‘Eco Equity’: Comments and annotations on the advance unedited text of the draft plan of implementation for the World Summit on Sustainable Development arising from the Bali Prepcom. (15th July 2002)
Download text here (pdf)

* Comments on Chairman’s paper, unedited version, June 12th (20th June 2002)
www.rio-plus-10.org/en/positions/59.php

* Proposed elements for the FoEI Political Declaration of WSSD
In progress (no link available yet)

• Background information from the United Nations

* Official site for the WSSD
www.johannesburgsummit.org./index.html

* ‘Type II’ Partnership Initiatives
-UN general information on ‘Type II’ Partnership initiatives
www.johannesburgsummit.org./html/sustainable_dev/type2_part.html
-UN document on ‘guiding principles for Type II Partnerships Initiatives’ (7th June 2002)
www.johannesburgsummit.org/html/documents/prepcom4docs
/bali_documents/annex_partnership.pdf
-Partnership Initiatives submitted to the Summit Secretariat
www.johannesburgsummit.org./html/sustainable_dev/partnership_initiatives.html

  Press Releases

04 Sept 02 
EARTH SUMMIT WRAP UP: Governments miss historic opportunity


28 August  2002 

EU LOSES EARTH SUMMIT LEADERSHIP ROLE

26 August  2002 

RICHEST NATIONS TRY TO TRADE AWAY EARTH SUMMIT - EU must make the difference                  

Click here for daily updates and press releases on Johannesburg
 

FoE "art action" giant
unveiled !!!
See photos

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