Experts gather
to discuss
sustainable
development
inter-linkages
Sept. 3-4
Sustainable development experts, policy makers and academics will gather in Tokyo September 3 to discuss new strategies for sustainable development, focusing on the inter-linkages among multilateral environmental agreements and links between globalization and sustainable development.
United Nations University (UNU), in cooperation with Japan's Foreign Affairs and Environment ministries and Global Legislators Organization for a Balanced Environment (GLOBE) International, is organizing the event – International Eminent Persons Meeting on Inter-Linkages – Bridging Problems and Solutions to Work Towards Sustainable Development. The results of the meeting will feed into next year's World Summit for Sustainable Development (WSSD) in Johannesburg.
As the
World Summit approaches, most experts agree that progress towards the goals set in Agenda 21 has been unsatisfactory.
The countries of the world have
have
failed to prepare the socio-economic systems needed
to deal with these complex, inter-linked issues.
Laws, conventions, treaties, institutions, mechanisms and information are developed in isolation,
and often segregated based on topic or theme.
Jan Pronk Norman Myers To promote the further implementation of Agenda 21, the gap between perception and solution making process
must be bridged through strategic processes, such as Inter-Linkages, that can clarify the linkages between ecosystems and socio-economic institutions.
A number of eminent policy makers and scholars will participate in the
Inter-Linkages meeting, to be held at UNU headquarters in Tokyo September
3 and 4. They include:
