Johannesburg 2002 - Calendar of Meetings

Calendar of meetings

June 2001	October 2001	February 2002	June 2002
July 2001	November 2001	March 2002	July 2002
August 2001	December 2001	April 2002	August 2002
September 2001	January 2002	May 2002

june 2001	Meeting	OUTCOME
Subregional Preparatory MEETINGS	Southern Cone Santiago, Chile, 14 - 15 June Contact	Southern Cone Final Report
	Central and Eastern Europe Bucharest, Romania, 27 - 28 June Contact	CEE Outcome
	Caribbean Havana, Cuba, 28 - 29 June Contact	Caribbean Final Report
regional roundtables	Europe and North America Vail, Colorado, USA, 6 - 8 June Contact	Europe Roundtable Report Press Release
	Latin America and the Caribbean Bridgeport, Barbados, 18 - 20 June Contact	LAC Roundtable Report Press Release
	Africa Cairo, Egypt, 25 - 27 June Contact	Africa Roundtable Report
other preparatory MEETINGS	Think Tank Meeting and Stavenger Forum for Rio + 10 Organized by The International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI) Stavenger, Norway, 9 - 12 June Contact	Brief Outcome
	North American Local Government Conference Organized by the ICLEI Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA, 20 - 22 June Contact	Summary
	The Arctic Council Regional Conference on the Tenth Anniversary of the Arctic Environmental Protection Strategy Organized by the Arctic Council Rovaniemi, Finnish Lapland, 11 June	Outcome of the Meeting
	Preparation of the African Civil Society and NGOs to the World Summit on Sustainable Development Cape Town, South Africa, 14 - 16 June Contact
	Fifth Global Environmental Governance Dialogue Organized by the World Conservation Union IUCN and Yale University Gland, Switzerland, 20 - 22 June	IUCN Report
	Sustainable Development: Fact or Dream 10 Years After the Rio Summit Havana, Cuba, 17 – 24 June
	Partnerships and Social Responsibility in the New Economy Organized by the Copenhagen Centre Copenhagen, Denmark, 27 - 29 June Contact	Outcome
july 2001
GLOBAL PREPARATIONS	Second Meeting of the Bureau Geneva, 16 - 18 July 2001	Note on the Outcome of the Second Meeting of the Bureau
Subregional PreP MEETINGS	Andean Zone Quito, Ecuador, 2 - 3 July 2001 Contact	Andean Zone Outcome
	Meso-America Central America + Mexico San Salvador, El Salvador, 17 - 18 July 2001 Contact	Meso-America Outcome
	Northeast Asia Beijing, China, 26- 28 July 2001 Contact	Northeast Asia Outcome Prep meeting Outcome Stakeholder's meeting Outcome
regional roundtables	East Asia and the Pacific Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 9 - 11 July 2001 Contact	East Asia Pacific Final Report and Press Release
regional roundtables	Central and South Asia Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, 30 July - 1 August 2001 Contact	Central and S. Asia Final Report
other preparatory MEETINGS	ECE Regional Consultative Meeting: Geneva, 12 - 13 July 2001	Elements for a ministerial statement Assessment report
august 2001
other preparatory MEETINGS	National Stakeholder Consultations: Cameroon Yaoundé, Cameroon, 22 August 2001	Outcome
september 2001
GLOBAL PREPARATIONS	Third Meeting of the Bureau Held in conjunction with the Business Forum organized by Indonesia in collaboration with the WSSD Secretariat Jakarta, 5 - 6 September 2001	Note on the Outcome of the Third Bureau Meeting
GLOBAL PREPARATIONS	International Eminent Persons' Meeting on Inter-Linkages Tokyo, Japan, 3 - 4 September 2001	Sustainable Development Coverage UNU's Report
regional PreP MEETINGS	Europe and North America Regional Ministerial Meeting Geneva, Switzerland, 24 - 25 September 2001 Contact	ENB's Coverage ECE Ministerial Statement
Subregional PreP MEETINGS
	South Pacific PrepCom In conjunction with the South Pacific Regional Environment Programme Ministerial Governing Council Meeting Apia, Samoa, 5 - 7 September 2001 Contact	Outcome
	Northern Africa Tunis, Tunisia, 5 - 7 September 2001 Contact	Summary report - in French
	East Africa Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa COMESA and Inter-governmental Authority on Development Djibouti, Djibouti, 17 - 19 September 2001 Contact
	Central Africa Economic Commission for Central African States meeting Libreville, Gabon, 17 - 19 September 2001 Contact
	South Africa Southern African Development Community Meeting Port Louis, Mauritius, 17 -18 September 2001 Contact	Summary report Progress report
	Central Asia Almaty, Kazakhstan, 19 - 21 September 2001	Outcome Ministerial Statement Link to outcome report
	South Asia Colombo, Sri Lanka, 27 - 29 September 2001	Outcome
regional roundtables	Western Asia Stakeholders Round Table Meeting Bahrain, 23 - 25 September 2001 Contact
other preparatory MEETINGS	What Earth Summit 2002 should be trying to achieve Online debate organized by UNED Forum Throughout September 2001	Debate Summaries
	Youth Earth Summit, YES2001 Organized by Peace Child International Baku, Azerbaijan, 2 - 9 September 2001 Contact	YES2001 Summary, Action Statement
	Business Forum Organized by the government of Indonesia in collaboration with the WSSD Secretariat, as part of preparations for the Summit. Jakarta, 3-5 September 2001	Press story
	Accelerating Local Sustainability: Evaluating European Local Agenda 21 Processes Organized by ICLEI London, UK, 20 - 21 September 2001 Contact	Project findings, reports
	Meeting for NGOs in the UNECE working towards the WSSD Hosted by ANPED Geneva, Switzerland, 22 - 23 September	NGO Statement

october 2001
GLOBAL PREPARATIONS	Fourth Meeting of the Bureau New York, 1-2 October 2001	Note on the Outcome of the 4th Bureau Meeting
regional PreP MEETINGS	Africa: Nairobi, Kenya, 15 - 18 October 2001 Contact	-- ENB coverage of Africa Regional Prep -- African Ministerial Statement -- Addendum to statement -- African NGO statement
	Latin America and the Caribbean: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 23 - 24 October 2001 Contact 13th Meeting of the Forum of Ministers of Environment of LAC Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 21-23 October 2001	-- ENB coverage of LAC Regional Prep -- Draft Report of 13th Meeting of Ministers -- LAC Ministerial Platform for Action
	West Asia: Cairo, Egypt, 24 - 25 October 2001 Contact	ENB coverage of West Asia Regional Prep
Subregional PreP MEETINGS	West Africa: Economic Commission For West African States and Inter State Committee on Fight Against Drought in the Sahel Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire, 1 - 3 October 2001 Contact
Subregional PreP MEETINGS	Southeast Asia Manila, Philippines, 17 - 19 October 2001	Link to outcome documents
other preparatory MEETINGS	Reykjavik Conference on Responsible Fisheries Reykjavik, Iceland, 1-4 October 2001	SD coverage and report
	Business Action for Sustainable Development (BASD) Strategy Meeting Paris, France, 9-10 October 2001	Press Releases: Oct 9, Oct 10 OUTCOME
	Meeting of Main Groups Networks of Latin America and the Caribbean For NGOs in the Latin America and Caribbean region Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 18 - 20 October 2001	Declaration
	Rio+10 International Forum For Private Sector in the LAC region Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 18 - 19 October 2001	OUTCOME Recommendations
	5th Annual Conference of the International Environment Forum - Knowledge, Values and Education for Sustainable Development 19 - 21 October 2001 Hluboka nad Vltavou, South Bohemia, Czech Republic	Report
	Asia-Pacific Forum of Environmental Journalists Annual Congress: WSSD: the Role of the Media Manila, Philippines, 22 - 26 October 2001
	Special Session of the Joint Committee on Environment and Development in the Arab Region JCEDAR Cairo, Egypt, 21 - 22 October Contact
	Council of Arab Ministers Responsible for the Environment CAMRE Bureau Meeting Cairo, Egypt: 23 October Contact
	GLOBE Southern Africa First Parliamentary Conference South African Parliament, Cape Town, 23 - 24 October 2001 This conference is the first event of GLOBE Southern Africa's Earth Summit Campaign. It will bring together about 80 parliamentarians throughout the Southern and East African region in a forum that will examine some of the most pertinent issues relating to the World Summit and Africa's role in it.	Press statement Speech on Africa's priorities Presentation
	Council of Arab Ministers Responsible for the Environment CAMRE Council Meeting Cairo, Egypt, 24 - 25 October Contact
	General Conference of the Third World Academy of Sciences New Delhi, India, originally scheduled for 27 - 31 October has been postponed.
	Regional Electronic Consultations In preparation for the Southern NGO Summit Online discussions, starting from 29 October 2001 For more information go to Other Prep Processes
	Rethinking the industry-sustainable development challenge: How can industries be part of the solution to problems of sustainable development?' Organized by LEAD Online live panel, 30 October 2001	OUTCOME
november 2001
GLOBAL PREPARATIONS	Fifth Meeting of the Bureau In conjunction with the 56th UNGASS New York, 1 November 2001	Notes on outcome to 5th Bureau meeting
regional PreP MEETINGS	Asia and the Pacific: Phnom Penh, Cambodia, 27 - 29 November 2001 Contact	-- ENB coverage of Asia and Pacific regional prep meeting -- Link to Asia-Pacific Regional Platform for WSSD
other preparatory MEETINGS	Global Forum for Sport and Environment Nagano, Japan, 3 - 4 November 2001 At this Conference, there will be a review of the contributions of the Olympic Movement to the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD), which will take place in Johannesburg in September 2002. Participants will also review the implementation of the Agenda 21 for Sport and Environment and environmental dimensions of preparations for Olympic Games in Salt Lake City, Athens, Torino and Beijing. There will be discussions on the topic of environmental sustainability and sporting events. Contact: Tore J. Brevik, email: cpiinfo@unep.org
	International Forum on National Sustainable Development Strategies Organized by UN Division of Sustainable Development Accra, Ghana, 7 - 9 November 2001 Contact	SD Summary Report
	WASTE Summit – Women Assessing the State of the Environment Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, 9-10 November 2001 Summit participants will produce a U.S. women’s environmental action agenda, which includes a status report on U.S. progress since the Earth Summit 1992 and a set of policy recommendations for action.
	Equity for a Small Planet: An International Forum on the WSSD 2002 Organized by IIED London, 12 - 13 November 2001	SD coverage of event and Summary Report
	International Scientific-Practical Forum of Young Scientists The Sustainable Development Issues, View by the Young Generation. On the way to the World Summit Rio + 10. Moscow 15-16 November 2001 e-mail: forum@vernadsky.ru
	PLANET’ERE 2 – International Forum on Environmental Education Paris, France, 18-23 November 2001 Promoting environmental education at the WSSD Contact: Michèle Dubromelle; tel: +33-1-4607-1721; e-mail: m.dubromelle@lespetitsdebrouillards.org
	Online Forum - The road to Johannesburg 2002 after 11 September 2001 19-24 November 2001 Jointly organized by Heinrich Boell Foundation and UNED Forum	OUTCOME
	2001 Asia Pacific Earth Charter Conference Purpose: To promote awareness, acceptance and adoption of the Earth Charter in the Asia-Pacific Region. This conference will also contribute to the regions preparation for the Johannesburg Summit. Brisbane, Australia, 29 November - 2 December 2001 Contact
december 2001
global preparations	Sixth Meeting of the Bureau Washington, DC, 7 December 2001	Notes on the Outcome of the 6th Bureau Meeting
other preparatory MEETINGS	Fourth Meeting of the Open-ended Intergovernmental Group of Ministers or their Representatives on International Environmental Governance Montreal, Canada, 30 November - 1 December 2001	-- ENB coverage -- ENB Summary report
	International Conference on Freshwater Water - a Key to Sustainable Development Bonn, Germany, 3 - 7 December 2001	-- SD coverage of event, including images and real audio -- SD summary report
	Global Conference on Oceans and Coasts at Rio+10 - Assessing Progress, Addressing Continuing and New Challenges Paris, France, 3 - 7 December 2001	-- SD coverage of event -- SD summary report

january 2002
GLOBAL PREPARATIONS	Seventh Meeting of the Bureau New York, 14 January 2002
	Bureau brainstorming sessions To discuss the main thematic outcomes of regional preparatory processes with delegations in preparation for the second PrepCom. New York, 16-17 January 2002	ENB Summary Report
	NY meeting on IEG UN Headquarters, New York, 25 January 2002	Working documents ENB Summary report
	WSSD PrepCom 2 UN Headquarters, New York, 28 January - 8 February 2002	-- ENB daily coverage of PrepCom II -- ENB Summary Report
regional preparations	ALLIANCE OF SMALL ISLAND STATES (AOSIS) INTER-REGIONAL PREPARATORY MEETING FOR WSSD Singapore, 7-11 January 2002 For more information contact: UNDP Capacity 21; tel: +1-212-906-6121; fax: +1-212-906-5896; e-mail: marie-michele.arthur@undp.org	Singapore Declaration
other preparatory MEETINGS	Mediterranean NGO Meeting Nice, France, 11-12 January 2002	Mediterranean NGO Declaration
	International Conference on Financing for Development - PrepCom 4 New York, 14 - 25, January 2002	press release press release2
	Meeting of Senior Officials and Ministers of Health Johannesburg, South Africa, 19-22 January 2002	For information on Johannesburg Declaration on Health and Sustainable Development, contact vonschirndingy@who.ch
	GEF High-Level Roundtable on Energy UN Headquarters in New York, 29 - 30 January 2002
february 2002
other preparatory meetings	Delhi Sustainable Development Summit 2002. Ensuring Sustainable Livelihoods: Challenges for Governments, Corporates and Civil Society at Rio + 10 Organized by TERI New Delhi, India, 9 - 11 February 2002 Contact	synopsis of proceedings
	Final Meeting of the Open-ended Intergovernmental Group of Ministers or Their Representatives on International Environmental Governance Cartagena, Colombia, 12 February 2002 Global Ministerial Environmental Forum (UNEP Governing Council) Cartagena, Colombia, 13 - 15 February 2002	-- ENB daily coverage -- ENB Summary Report
	Copenhagen Round Table on Private Sector and Civil Society Contributions to Sustainable Development Copenhagen, 20-21 February 2002 Hosted by Danish Government The purpose of the event was 'to further a common understanding of the roles and contributions of the private sector and the civil society in bringing about sustainable development'. Representatives from governments, business, trade unions and NGOs addressed four themes: · Good governance for sustainable development · Private investment and trade for sustainable development · Promoting transfer of sustainable technology in the energy and water sector · How can the private sector and civil society contribute to the realization of a Global Deal?	IIED Background paper IIED Report
	Earth Dialogues: Globalization and Sustainable Development - Is Ethics the Missing Link? Organized by Green Cross International Lyon, France, 21 - 23 February 2002 Contact: : secretariat@gci.ch; http:// www.greencrossinternational.net	Compilation of Roundtable Reports: English - French
	Local Agenda to Action - Building a Sustainable Future Local Government International Preparatory Meeting organized by ICLEI North Vancouver, Canada, 22 February - 1 March 2002 For more information contact: Elena Lonero; e-mail: elonero@iclei.org; Internet: http://www.iclei.org/prepcom/	ICLEI Initiatives Report
march 2002
GLOBAL PREPARATIONS	WSSD PrepCom 3 UN Headquarters, New York, 25 March - 5 April 2002 This meeting is expected to produce the first draft of a "review" document and elements of the future work programme of the CSD. Internet: http://www.johannesburgsummit.org/	-- ENB daily coverage, including daily reports, photos, RealAudio recordings
other preparatory MEETINGS	Population Environment Research Network (PERN) Statement for Earth Summit 2002. 1-15 March, cyberspace PERN will be hosting a cyber seminar to review and critique the Statement on Population in Sustainable Development that has been prepared by the Global Science Panel. The aim of the Global Science Panel, an independent group of 30 distinguished scientists and policymakers, is to prepare a scientific assessment about the role of population in sustainable development strategies, in order to provide substantive input to the WSSD. To participate in the cyberseminar, SUBSCRIBE to the dedicated PERNSEMINARS list by sending an e-mail message to majordomo@ciesin.columbia.edu with the following text, 'subscribe pernseminars'