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The Future of Global Sustainable Development
A Civil Society Workshop to Follow-up on the World Summit on Sustainable
Development (WSSD)

Participants will share their analysis of the WSSD and address the following questions:
* What were the outcomes of the WSSD? How do these outcomes measure up to civil society's demands for action?
* How can we as civil society organizations ensure that governments act upon the commitments made at Johannesburg?
* How can civil society organizations become involved in the WSSD implementation plan?
* How can we generate the interest and commitment of both nation-states and individuals to work towards integrating principles of sustainability into policy and our daily lives?

Date: October 23rd, 2002
Location: Museum of Nature, Ottawa, ON
Space is limited - please confirm your participation by October 15th by contacting Clarisse Kehler Siebert (Youth Summit Team) by e-mail: wssd@canada.com or phone: (514) 895-7664.

Event organized by Action Canada for Population and Development, Canadian Council for International Cooperation, Canadian Environmental Network, One Sky, United Nations Association in Canada with the Youth Summit Team and the World Conservation Union (IUCN).

N.B. The workshop organizers are working to ensure that simultaneous translation is available. There are presently no subsidies available for travel, but please let us know in your RSVP if your participation is contingent on funding.

"Key Messages Emerging from Civil Society following the World Summit on
Sustainable Development, Ottawa, 23-24 October 2002"

NGO WSSD Media Kit!

The WSSD needs press coverage! A group of CESC members have developed a media kit that we encourage you to use when you are contacted by the media or when you send out press releases. A number of kits have already been mailed to key journalists. To avoid duplication, please contact Marta Blackwell for a list of names at marta@acpd.ca.

Key elements - Civil society demands, Why WSSD is a newstory, Spokespeople, FAQs
Background information: About CESC, Summary of the 4 Prep Coms, Summit Background, Useful Links, NEPAD
CESC outcomes - Letter to the PM, Summary of "Summit or Plummet" report

 

CESC Listserv

If you are interested in staying up-to-date on the CEN's Forum for the WSSD and other related activities, send an e-mail to Nikki asking to join our listserv.

 

 

Calender of Events

Date (2002) Event Location
January 28 - Feb.8 WSSD Prep Com II New York
January 31 - Feb.4 CEN WSSD Steering Ctee Mtgs New York
February 13 -15 UNEP Environment Ministerial Mtg. Cartegena
February 19 CESC Conference Call Canada
February 21 ICLEI Local Gov't International Prep Meeting North Van
March 5 CESC Meeting with Secretariat Ottawa/phone
March 13 - 15 Globe 2002 Vancouver
March Ministerial Health Conference Montreal
March 18 -22 International Conference for Financing for Development Monterrey
March 28 IISD/EC WSSD, Globalization and the International Governance Agenda meeting Ottawa
March 25 - April 5 WSSD Prep Com III New York
April 5 Rough draft of NGO report done  
April 8 - 9 CIELAP's Partnering for Sustainability conference Toronto
April 22 Earth Day! Everywhere
May 7 Alternatives, McGill and IUCN WSSD Panel and Activities Montreal
May 15 CESC Conference Call with Secretariat Canada
May 24 - June 7 NGO/Peoples Forum Bali
May 27 - June 7 WSSD Prep Com IV Bali
June 5 - 9 Sierra Club's People and Power Conference Kingston
June 6 Official release of NGO report Kingston
June 13-15 Sustainable Justice 2002 conference - CISDL Montreal
June 26 - 27 G8 Conference Kananaskis
August 26 - Sept. 4 World Summit on Sustainable Development Johannesburg
October 23 Post-WSSD workshop Ottawa

 

The CEN Forum for the WSSD presented their report "Summit or Plummet?" in workshops at the CEN AGA, People and the Planet conference and Prep Com IV in Bali in early June, and the Summit in Johannesburg. .