aug 26, 2002 - The Johannesburg World Summit on Sustainable Development

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The Johannesburg summit's main objectives were to renew global support for sustainable development at the highest political level and to quicken the pace of Agenda 21 implementation.

The Summit succeeded in achieving some of its goals, such as setting a time-bound sanitation target and recognizing the rights of communities in natural resource management. Yet it also had its share of failures, including the failure to address climate change and to reform global environmental governance.

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