The World Summit of Johannesburg on Sustainable Development

The commitment global towards Sustainable Development you strengthens during the Conference held in Johannesburg in 2002, called World Summit on Sustainable Development. Will be organized by the United Nations 10 years after the Summit on earth of Rio de Janeiro to discuss the state of implementation of decisions taken at Rio and for take note of a series of new experiences and knowledge that developed in the meantime. Will partake Heads of State and representatives of organizations of the world of the business and of associations.

The Summit was very important for the following novelties: economic growth is not the basis of development, indeed, is underlined as both necessary to distinguish between growth and development; the company is priority compared to economy and environment in the pyramid of the values; in any case none of these elements will be considered in its own right, but interdependent,.

The Declaration of Johannesburg will be probably the main result of the Conference. Also if, to distance of years the so-called “Piano di Implementation”, document key of the Summit, albeit long, complex and particularly articulated, you knew tool proved of address Political and action very important for numerous of countries and their Organizations that you They are engaged in the development sustainable. In the Declaration was written for the first time a critique to globalization. In this document he cites, in fact, that “globalization has added new challenges” to crises Ecological of the planet and inequalities social and that his “Speeds and benefits are unequally distributed”. The “novelty” of the Summit of Johannesburg is of give greater emphasis to the creation of “partnerships” rather than to the definition of new government agreements. These partnerships must represent the main instrument for the implementation of the Goals Millennium Development.