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Natural
Resources and Sustainable Development
 SD
& Agenda 21
Capacity
Building
& Networking
UN Events
UNCTAD Exhibition X
WSSD
Related
Links
Minerals
Offshore
Oil and Gas
Biodiversity
Energy
Water
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The
World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD)
Johannesburg, South
Africa
26
August - 4 September 2002
General
Information Resources
- www.rio10.dk - A website
to promote information sharing and coordination among the organizations
and networks involved in the civil society preparations for the WSSD.
The website is provided freely to Southern organisations, especially
developing nations in Africa, Asia and Latin America, to assist in preparations
for the Summit. The website has been created by the Danish 92 Group,
a coalition of 21 NGO's. (English,
French, Portuguese and Spanish)
UN
Regional Commission Activities
UN Economic Commission
for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)
UN Economic Commission
for Europe (UN/ECE)
Activities
in the Natural Resources Area in Relation to the WSSD
Minerals
- UNEP-DTIE - WSSD
Sector Reports
- Mining
- Fertilizer
- Encompasses the mining of potash and phosphate minerals as raw
materials for fertilizer production.
- Participating
industry sectors involved in mining include: Aluminium ,Coal, Fertilizer,
and Iron and Steel.
- Mining,
Minerals and Sustainable Development (MMSD)
- Government of Canada
- Mining Communities
Charter - London
Declaration, September 20, 2001.
- IIED - International
Institute for Environment and Development - The Future is Now Volume
2 - November 2001 (Adobe PDF) - Chapter
2 on 'Standards and Certification' discusses in part the
potential for an independent mining environmental performance certification
system based on the FSC model.
- CSD 8 - Land
Management - Land management was the major cross-sectoral theme
for the 8th session of the UN Commission for Sustainable Development
(CSD) held in 2000.
- IISD - Mining background
paper.
Offshore
Oil and Gas
Biodiversity
Energy
- Agenda 21
- UNEP-DTIE -
WSSD Sector Reports
- CSD
9 - Energy was one of the major focuses of the ninth session
of the UN Commission for Sustainable Development (CSD) held in 2001.
Water
- Agenda 21
- UNEP-DTIE -
International Environmental Technology Centre - WSSD Sector Report
- Water Management
- CSD
6 - Freshwater Management was the sectoral theme of
the sixth session of the UN Commission for Sustainable Development (CSD)
held in 1998.
- CSD
7 - Oceans and Seas was one of the major themes of the
seventh session of the UN Commission for Sustainable Development (CSD)
held in 1999.
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