Issue 15: March - April 2002

Report calls for strategic approach
to implementing Agenda 21

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The world needs a more strategic approach to achieving the priority objectives for the environment and development set out 10 years ago in Agenda 21, according to a new UNU report.

In its submission to recent global preparatory meetings in New York for the
2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg, UNU called for a new and widespread appreciation of the need to approach sustainable development in a more comprehensive and integrated manner, saying there has been an obvious decline in the condition of the natural environment since the 1992 Earth Summit on environment and development in Rio de Janeiro.

"This decline, coupled within the obviously widening gap between the world's richest and poorest peoples, has generated a global appreciation of the urgency with which we prepare for the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development. It is becoming increasingly clear, that this summit must serve as a turning point on the path to global sustainable development."
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