TY - JOUR
T1 - No WSSD + 5? Global Environmental Diplomacy in the twenty-first century
AU - Death, Carl
N1 - Carl Death, ‘No WSSD + 5? Global Environmental Diplomacy in the twenty-first century’, Environmental Politics, 17, 1, (2008), pp. 121 – 125.
PY - 2008/2/1
Y1 - 2008/2/1
N2 - The fifth anniversary of the World Summit on Sustainable Development
(WSSD) in August–September 2007 passed largely unnoticed. Yet, ten years
earlier the fifth anniversary of the Rio Earth Summit was marked by ‘Earth
Summit II’, held in New York, and in 2002 the WSSD–or ‘Rio + 10’–was
convened to review the progress made in the ten years since Rio. Despite this
predilection for marking anniversaries, there was no ‘Jo’burg + 5’, and it will
be 2016–2017 before the next overall review of progress, according to the
programme of work of the UN Commission on Sustainable Development
(CSD). Thus the ‘WSSD may well come to be seen as the last of the UN megasummits,
where success is measured by the number of participating heads of
state and the conference is preceded by years of negotiation’ (Bigg 2004, p. 4).
AB - The fifth anniversary of the World Summit on Sustainable Development
(WSSD) in August–September 2007 passed largely unnoticed. Yet, ten years
earlier the fifth anniversary of the Rio Earth Summit was marked by ‘Earth
Summit II’, held in New York, and in 2002 the WSSD–or ‘Rio + 10’–was
convened to review the progress made in the ten years since Rio. Despite this
predilection for marking anniversaries, there was no ‘Jo’burg + 5’, and it will
be 2016–2017 before the next overall review of progress, according to the
programme of work of the UN Commission on Sustainable Development
(CSD). Thus the ‘WSSD may well come to be seen as the last of the UN megasummits,
where success is measured by the number of participating heads of
state and the conference is preceded by years of negotiation’ (Bigg 2004, p. 4).
M3 - Article
SN - 0964-4016
VL - 17
SP - 121
EP - 125
JO - Environmental Politics
JF - Environmental Politics
IS - 1
ER -