Contents:

• NGO Action
• Press
• Links

NGO Action

• USCAN Press briefing on the WSSD - A briefing on key environmental issues in the upcoming Summit in Johannesburg,
• South Africa Environment and development NGOs' letter to Prepcom 4 on the need for real targets in the WSSD for clean and affordable energy for the 2 billion people in the world who don't have access to even basic energy requirements (June 2002)
• Friends of the Earth International and BUND Germany website
• National Compliance with Agenda 21 reporting mechanisms. Report by VERTIC (UK)
• The Johannnesburg Memorandum from the Heinrich Boell Foundation
• CAN ECO newsletter from WSSD PrepCom3, New York, March/April 2002
• CAN ECO newsletter from WSSD PrepCom2, New York, Feb 2002
• Friends of the Earth International open letter responding to the lack of clear targets in the Chairman's Paper March 2002
• Who to Blame 10 years after Rio?: The role of the USA, Canada and Australia in undermining the Rio Agreeements. Greenpeace, Jan 2002
• Earth Summit 2002: Energy and climate change: Lots of excellent links and information including Energy and Climate Change Briefing Paper
• The REAL (NGO) Marrakesh Declaration: What the ministers should have said
• Power to tackle poverty and climate change. A message from CAN to the WSSD
• See CAN Europe's ratification pages. As early results of the summit, a number of countries have announced their ratification of the Kyoto Protocol, or their intention to join soon.

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Press

• 9th September: Earth Summit produced 290 000 tonnes of carbon dioxide - Reuters
• 4th September: The outcome of the Summit is presented in the Plan of implementation (advance unedited text)
• BBC Full Coverage
• Independent Media Center
• Linkages from the IISD

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Links

• Johannesburg Summit Official UN website
• UN Summit website
• Johannesburg Renewable Energy Coalition (JREC) -, have adopted the joint declaration “The Way Forward on Renewable Energy”.
• UNED Forum's Rio+10
• The Marrakesh Ministerial Declaration: A message from Ministers at COP7 to the WSSD (go to page 204 of document)
• G8 Renewable Energy Task Force Report This report was presented to the G8 in Genoa, July 2001. It sets out a clear set of recommendations for supporting renewable energies. The focus is on developing countries. It should be a key document for WSSD