Earth Summit 2002:
http://www.earthsummit2002.org/
International Environmental Governance
http://www.unep.org/ieg/Background.asp
IUCN on Global Environmental Governance
http://www.iucn.org/info_and_news/press/globalgov.html
http://www.sdgateway.net/ Sustainable Development Gateway
SD In-Depth - Introduction to Sustainable Development
http://www.sdgateway.net/introsd/
Learn about the future of our interlocked ecological and economic systems in a highly populated world that is characterized by major social disparities.
Solutions: * Produce differently - apply concepts of eco-efficiency and sustainable livelihoods (This will require us to think about the cradle-to-grave impact of all goods and services to make wise choices. It will also require a reorientation of industrial economies.)
* Consume differently The ranking of ecological footprints shows which countries are ecologically most sustainable and which are running an ecological deficit. The average American has an ecological footprint 1.7 times larger than a person in Sweden, 3.8 times that of someone in Hungary or Costa Rica, and more than 9 times that of an individual in India. Policies must be developed that promote consumption patterns which reduce our ecological footprint while meeting the needs of all people to enjoy a good quality of life. These policies must also raise the consumption of the world's more than a billion poor who are unable to meet their basic food, shelter and clothing needs.)
* Organize ourselves differently - increase public participation while reducing corruption and perverse subsidies (Good governance will require reforming decision-making processes to increase opportunities for public participation, including a wide variety of activities including co-management of natural resources. In its deepest form, public participation seeks to involve civil society in all steps of planning, implementation and evaluation of policies and actions. The misuse of power for private benefit or advantage, is also necessary to achieve sustainable development. As recent studies from the Earth Council and the International Institute for Sustainable Development have noted, the world is spending nearly $1.5 trillion annually to subsidize its own destruction.)
ENDA - This new approach says that local problems can be solved by local communities, by all groups in the community, including women and young people, working and taking decisions together. The newly empowered local community, through democratic decision-making and problem-solving, matures into a body capable of interacting productively with the local authority and even with the state.
LEAD - Leadership for Environment and Development
http://www.lead.org/
LEAD's mission is to create and sustain a global network of leaders who are committed to promote change towards patterns of economic development that are environmentally sustainable and socially equitable.
The Earth Forum
http://www.ecouncil.ac.cr/ecinfocom.htm
National Councils for Sustainable Development
http://www.ncsdnetwork.org/
The Van Lenepp Programme on Economics and Sustainable Development. (The realization of sustainable development requires the mobilization of resources (including a transfer of resources to developing countries)
This will chill you to the bone: education for sustainability: an agenda for action
http://www.gcrio.org/edu/pcsd/toc.html (This report is the product of work initiated at the "National Forum on Partnerships Supporting Education about the Environment," a demonstration project of the President's Council on Sustainable Development, held at the Presidio, San Francisco, California, in the fall of 1994.)