[GreenYes] Fwd: NGOs Analyze End of the World Summit

[Gary Liss <gary@garyliss.com>]

> From: Michael Strauss
> <earthmedia@igc.org>
> Date: Tue, 03 Sep 2002 20:14:06 -0400
> NGO Press Conference TODAY
>
> Survival or Disaster?  
> NGOs Analyze End of the Summit
>
> Time:     
> Wednesday, 4 September 2002
> 2:00 P.M.
>
> Place:        
> U.N. Media Center 
> Sandton Convention Center
> Johannesburg, South Africa  
>
> Speakers:      
> Jennifer Morgan, Climate Director   WWF
> Martin Khor, Director      Third World Network
> Fred Kalibwani    PELUM [Kenya] 
> Andrew Hewett, executive Director   Oxfam International
> [Australia]
> Jocelyn Dow, President     Women s Environment and
> Development Organization 
>
> Subject:
> As the Johannesburg Summit finally reaches its conclusion teetering
> between qualified success and outright failure several key issues have
> shaped the last few days debate.  Successes on the Kyoto Protocol
> and rejection of supremacy for the WTO helped bring the Summit back from
> the brink.  But even those limited gains were threatened by the lack
> of any meaningful commitments in the Summits draft Implementation
> Agenda.  The last-minute action, led by the U.S., to block corporate
> accountability further tarnished the record of the Summit.
>
> Leaders of NGOs will react to the effectiveness of the entire Summit and
> its progress, or lack thereof, since Rio.  They will address these
> critical remaining issues:
>
>  -- Renewable Energy Will the E.U. and G 77 move forward
> independently after the Summit to act on renewable energy targets and
> implementation that were blocked by the U.S.?
>
>  -- Corporate Accountability The U.S. successfully attempted at the
> last minute to water-down the moderately effective provision on corporate
> behavior that had already been agreed.  What will be the
> effect?
>
>  -- Agriculture and GMOs Will developing countries continue to
> resist the effort of U.S. agribusiness to impose genetically modified
> crops on their countries?
>
>  -- Women s and Human Rights A few countries have been trying to
> block a key paragraph on health issues because of their fear that the
> language might somehow allow some countries to expand women s
> rights.  Will they succeed?
>
> contact: 
> EARTH MEDIA / INTERNATIONAL MEDIA ADVOCACY PROJECT
> Michael Strauss    + 27 (0)83 750 8594; 082 858 4113
> earthmedia@igc.org
> www.earthmedia-summit.org
> > _______________________________________
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> >  Michael Strauss, Director
> > INTERNATIONAL MEDIA ADVOCACY
> > PROJECT
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Gary Liss

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