CIEL Comments on the Draft Plan of Implementation for the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg, South Africa

25 August to 4 September 2002

The last formal preparatory negotiations (PrepCom 4) before the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg broke up in Bali in mid-June, leaving a host of issues unresolved. As a consequence, essential elements (about 25%) of the Draft Plan of Implementation (formerly the "Chairman's Text"), are subject to further negotiation. Contentious issues include:

• Time-bound targets, such as reducing the number of people without access to sanitation by half by 2015 or a review by 2007 of progress in developed countries on phasing out energy subsidies, as well as the target to restore depleted fish stocks by 2015;
  
  
• Human Rights;
  
  
• Replenishment of the Global Environment Facility (GEF);
  
  
• Globalization;
  
  
• Chapter IX on the means of implementation covering finance and trade
  issues;
  
  
• Chapter X on the institutional framework for sustainable development.

CIEL has prepared comments on trade related issues on the WSSD Draft Plan of Implementation.

Also available is the Draft Plan for Implementation for the World Summit on Sustainable Development, advanced draft version, released by the Commission on Sustainable Development acting as the prepatory committee for the World Summit on Sustainable Development.

Please contact Nathalie Bernasconi-Osterwalder for more information, or view the side events and issue briefs currently scheduled for the WSSD.