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"UN World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD): Johannesburg Declaration and Plan of Implementation, 2002" [2005] ELECD 300; in Tully, Stephen (ed), "International Documents on Corporate Responsibility" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2005)

Book Title: International Documents on Corporate Responsibility

Editor(s): Tully, Stephen

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781843768197

Section: Chapter 77

Section Title: UN World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD): Johannesburg Declaration and Plan of Implementation, 2002

Number of pages: 5

Extract:

77. UN World Summit on Sustainable
Development (WSSD): Johannesburg
Declaration and Plan of Implementation,
2002

Commentary: The Johannesburg Declaration and Programme of Action (see
WSSD Report, UN Doc A/CONF.199/20 (2002)) builds upon the Copenhagen
Declaration on Social Development and Programme of Action of the 1995 World
Summit on Social Development (UN Doc A/CONF.166/9 (1995)) and the 1992 Rio
Earth Summit. The UN Secretary-General in his Opening Statement observed that:
`Without the private sector, sustainable development will remain only a distant
dream. We are not asking corporations to do something different from their normal
business: we are asking them to do their normal business differently'. See also, UN
Secretary-General Report (2001), `Business and development', UN Doc A/56/442.
Specific economic sectors prepared reports in preparation for the WSSD: see UNEP
(2001), `Guidelines for Industry Sector Reports for the WSSD 2002', Paris;
WRI/UNEP/WBCSD (2002), `Tomorrow's Markets: Global Trends and Their
Implications for Business', Washington, DC. These were subsequently evaluated by
UNEP: see UNEP (2002), `Industry as a Partner for Sustainable Development, 10
Years After Rio: The UNEP Assessment', Paris. During the Summit itself, business
statements were submitted at roundtable sessions, the Chairman of Business Action
for Sustainable Development (BASD) addressed the multistakeholder event and
BASD hosted `Lekgotla [a dialogue of leaders]: a business day'.
Public­private partnerships were the dominant means of implementation. The Plan
of Implementation also contemplated inter alia private sector contributions to a world
solidarity fund to ...