WSSD: Post-Johannesburg

The World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) was an international conference to draw up a global plan of action for further implementing Agenda 21, the Earth's sustainable development blueprint. It took place in Johannesburg (South Africa) from 26 August to 4 September 2002.

The World Summit followed up on the developments since the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development. The event was organised by United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD) through a series of consultative meetings.

For more details on the WSSD, please click on the following links to the UNEP Division of Technology, Indsutry and Economics website on WSSD.

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News / Media	Press releases Virtual exhibit

For more details on Johannesburg Summit, visit the Johannesburg Summit website.

The three WSSD Sector Reports related to Mining and Minerals

UNEP, in partnership with various industry organisations, has launched a reporting initiative to gauge progress by the private sector towards sustainable development. This effort will contribute to the wider review of progress with the implementation of Agenda 21, under the framework of the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD), UNEP DTIE is facilitating the production of 22 sectoral reports, each addressing the following issues:

economic, environmental and social profile;
strategies, approaches and measures for progress; and
future challenges and targets.

Ultimately, this effort will result in an unprecedented industry-driven initiative to outline the way ahead towards sustainable entrepreneurship. Such an undertaking will set the basis for developing sectoral agendas against which to track progress in the years to come— to the benefit of all stakeholders.

Three industry organisations developed sector reports on their respective sectors in coordination with partner in the sector.

Aluminium - International Aluminium Institute (www.world-aluminium.org)

Coal - World Coal Institute (www.wci-coal.com)
Iron and Steel - International Iron and Steel Institute (www.worldsteel.org)

Related initiatives

This page gives information on related initiatives for the World Summit on Sustainable Development that address industry and sustainability issues. Contact mining@unep.fr if you are interested in having your work posted on this site.

Some national industry associations developed their reports for WSSD.

The WBCSD-facilitated "Mining, Minerals and Sustainable Development" project

Web site of the "Mining, Minerals and Sustainable Development" (MMSD) project

Report on key findings from the MMSD project ( 44 KB)
To view the Final Report, click here.
Send your comments on the report to the project team

Trade unions, industry and sustainability

A key component of sustainable business is the respect of labour rights and conditions. The International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU) has prepared a series of documents that present viewpoints on what key issues a particular industry should address in order to move itself closer to sustainability.

Input was solicited from labour groups, including the appropriate International Trade Secretariats (ITS). The reports however are not necessarily official policy of any ITS nor are they comprehensive given the limited time-frame for writing and research. Moreover, there are other relevant trade union policy documents and points of view than those represented here.

These documents should therefore be considered an introduction to trade union thinking on these issues rather than a final or complete position. This work feeds directly into the UNEP-led sector report process.

The ICFTU examined mining and metals sector. The report is available as PDF.