At Summit End:
 At Summit end,
Kofi Annan says it's just the beginning
Highlights
agreed on at the Summit
WWF: Final Update from the WSSD
WWF says Nothing for the Poor, Nothing for the Climate
Birdlife
International: The
summit has not shown sufficient commitment to the people of the world to make
real changes to the quality of their lives, especially in developing countries.
The Future
of Multilateralism: Address by Dr Claude Martin,
Director General of WWF International at WSSD
Daily News during the Summit
Exploiting a natural resource: Geothermal Energy
“Everybody’s cup of tea” NGO of the Day: Environmental Monitoring Group
A bucket a day keeps the companies at bay.
NGO of the day: Ecolink
Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual University-NGO - "The world's largest solar
cooker"
Many summit goals realised at midpoint... but breakthroughs still needed
on some of the toughest issues.
Sustainable software at the Summit -
Can software go green, free and cost-effective?
Consumption barometer at the Summit: "In Sandton, delegates are driving too many cars,
washing too much, and burning too much electricity."
A 71-year-old farmer becomes tearful as he explains how his farm of
three generations has been handed over to multinational GM
(genetically modified) seed producer Monsanto.
Ivory Park’s
EcoCity: an oasis in a
scrubland of pylons, smoke and tin roofs.
Privatisation of SA water - who benefits?
The Water for Food Movement, an NGO from Limpopo Province, approaches
environmental issues such as water shortages, and life holistically.
African leaders will now be able to keep their colleagues in check through
Nepad's Peer Review Mechanism. Or will they? The African Peer Review
Mechanism (APRM) was reviewed by a panel of speakers at Summit.
Developing countries
call for a commitment from the world's richest
nations to scrap billions of dollars in farm subsidies, which they say undermine
their market access.
The UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO)
on Tuesday warned that there could be no sustainable development as long as
millions of people suffered from chronic hunger and extreme poverty.
Over one billion people in the world do not
have access to water, and at least 2.4 billion do not have proper sanitation
A provision
calling for restoration of depleted fisheries not later than 2015 was agreed to
by negotiators at the World Summit on Sustainable Development.
Robert Swan’s campaign to
clean up Antarctica shows that action is better than
words
Korean eco-artist's ice sculptures show the effect of global warming.
Fearing that economic growth will overtake environmental concerns, a group of
activists and academics have produced a memorandum on "what the real
agenda" of the World Summit on Sustainable Development should be.
Conservation in Action - wildlife rehabilitation in Johannesburg.
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