World Summit on Sustainable Development Resources

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Press Release

World Summit on Sustainable Development Resources

Published on Aug 6, 2002

Source: Carnegie

World Summit on Sustainable Development
Resource Center

On August 26, the world will come together in Johannesburg, South Africa to tackle issues ranging from the global environment to global poverty. Following on the ambitious "Agenda 21" developed at the historic Rio Summit in 1992, the Johannesburg discussion will be filled with complex and contentious issues. As a resource for the media, experts, and activists engaged on the WSSD, the Carnegie Endowment is pleased to present a number of works by our scholars that can help clarify and edify key topics that will be addressed on this historic occasion.

For expert availability, please contact communications manager Scott Nathanson-202.939.2211

Events
	• Workshop on Capacity Building on Environment, Trade, and Development July 16, 2002. The Carnegie Endowment and the United Nations Environment Programme co-sponsored a symposium on how to help developing countries engage the world trading system in a sustainable manner. Remarks and by Congressman J.C. Watts, Jr. and U.S. Undersecretary of Commerce Grant D. Aldonas, as well as presentations from noted experts in the field. • Fair Trade and the Fight Against Poverty - Live at Carnegie Event July 2, 2002. Carnegie's Trade, Environment, and Development Project and Public Role of the Private Sector Project host Oxfam Senior Policy Advisor Kevin Watkins as he discusses his controversial new report on how to make free trade work for the world's poor. • Caring Greatly Is Not Enough June 5, 2002. U.S. Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill urged more accountability in foreign aid after returning from a 10-day tour of four African countries with rock star Bono of U2. From the Foreign Policy-sponsored event at Georgetown University.

Publications
	• Reforming Global Trade in Agriculture: A Developing-Country Perspecitive Former Indian trade negotiator and current WTO official Shishir Priyadarshi's analysis of current barriers and opportunities to sustainable and profitable agricultural policies for the developing world. • Bush Faces a Credibility Challenge at the Johannesburg Development Summit John Audley, director of the Endowment's Trade, Equity, and Development Project, determines that the Bush administration's WSSD agenda has some validity, but the conflicting and often incoherent international development policy actions it has taken up until now have robbed President Bush of what he would need the most in order to successfully press his agenda at the Johannesburg Summit-credibility. • Global Challenges: Beating the Odds - Policy Brief P.J. Simmons of the Endowment's Managing Global Issues Project uses a multi-year study to find key commonalities to successful international approaches to pressing worldwide issues, and provides a critique of current U.S. policy vis-à-vis the new reality of globalization. • Doha: Is It Really a Development Round? In the first issue of Carnegie's Trade, Environment, and Development series, Kamal Malhotra, a senior civil society advisor for the United Nations Development Programme, delves into the areas where developing nations were seeking progress, and concludes that the November 2001 negotiations in Doha, Qatar were less than successful (available in Spanish). • The G-8 and Africa: A Kernel of Hope - Issue Brief Marina Ottaway, co-director of the Carnegie Endowment’s Democracy and Rule of Law Project, analyzes the core issues of the African New Partnership for African Development (NEPAD) proposal and possible G-8 policy alternatives. • Politics and Parallel Negotiations: Environment and Trade in the Western Hemisphere - Working Paper John Audley and Edward Sherwin describe the dual challenges of building economies and protecting the environment. Demonstrating how political pressures in industrial and developing countries force linkages between efforts to achieve both objectives simultaneously, they conclude with a prescription for policy makers that addresses the environment and development needs of the hemisphere's countries by giving new mandates to existing multilateral institutions (available in Spanish). • Foreign Direct Investment: Does Rule of Law Matter? - Working Paper The Democracy and Rule of Law Project's John Hewko analyzes the relationship of foreign direct investment and the rule of law. The author takes a hard look at the proposition that developing and transitional countries must establish a well-functioning rule of law to attract foreign direct investment. • U.S. Climate Policy After Kyoto: Elements for Success - Policy Brief University of Washington professor Daniel Bodansky argues that the decision by the Bush administration to abandon the Kyoto Protocol and go its own way on climate change is not necessarily the disaster for climate policy often portrayed by environmentalists. • Future Shock: The WTO and Political Change in China - Policy Brief February 2001. Carnegie senior associate Minxin Pei notes that China's impending WTO entry will pose unprecedented economic and political challenges to the Chinese government. He cautions that U.S.-China relations could deteriorate as bilateral tensions over trade and human rights increase.


From Foreign Policy Magazine
	• The Cartel of Good Intentions William Easterly writes that the world’s richest governments have pledged to boost financial aid to the developing world. So why won’t poor nations reap the benefits? Because in the way stands a bloated, unaccountable foreign aid bureaucracy out of touch with sound economics. The solution: Subject the foreign assistance business to the forces of market competition. • Globalization's Last Hurrah? Ireland beat out Switzerland and Singapore to capture the top spot in the second annual A.T. Kearney/Foreign Policy Magazine globalization Index, a ranking of economic and political integration in 62 countries. • Recycling Environmentalism James Gustave Speth argues that talks and treaties have failed to avert environmental destruction predicted two decades ago. It’s time for environmentalists to change their tactics.

Experts
	• John Audley is a senior associate and director of the Trade, Environment, and Development Project. Before joining the Endowment, Mr. Audley was the trade policy coordinator at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency since 1999. • Moisés Naím is editor of Foreign Policy magazine. He has written extensively on the political economy of international trade and investment, multilateral organizations, economic reforms, and globalization. He is the author or editor of eight books, numerous essays, professional articles and his opinion columns are regularly published in the world’s leading newspapers. • Robert Cavey is senior associate and the Endowment’s first director of the Public Role of the Private Sector Project. Before joining the Endowment in July 2001, Cavey was vice president of government and public affairs at American Standard Companies in New Jersey. • Thomas Carothers is Vice President for Studies and founder and co-director of the Democracy and Rule of Law Project. He is an international lawyer and political scientist, and a leading authority on democracy promotion. • Minxin Pei is a senior associate of Carnegie's China Program. His research covers a wide range of subjects: Chinese politics, economic reform, East Asian politics, U.S. relations with East Asian countries, and democratization in developing countries. He has published extensively on these topics, and his current research project is on the politics of legal reform in China.


Books
	• A Public Role for the Private Sector: Industry Self-Regulation in a Global Economy August 2001. Increasing economic competition and the powerful threat of transnational activism are pushing the private sector to respond with new political strategies. Over the past decade, a growing number of corporations have adopted policies of industry self-regulation such as corporate codes of conduct, social and environmental standards, and auditing and monitoring systems. A Public Role for the Private Sector is the first book to explore this self-regulation phenomenon on an international level across three different policy issues—environment, labor, and information privacy. • Funding Virtue: Civil Society Aid and Democracy Promotion 2000. A diverse, distinguished collection of democracy experts and civil society practitioners from both donor and recipient countries analyze civil society aid in five regions, including country case studies of South Africa, the Philippines, Peru, Egypt, and Romania. The authors focus on crucial issues and dilemmas, such as the relationship between donor conceptions of civil society and local realities, the effects of civil society programs, and how aid can be improved. The book's broad geographic reach, practical focus, and analytic rigor make it an invaluable guide to this vital new area of international affairs. • THE THIRD FORCE: The Rise of Transnational Civil Society 2000. Transnational networks of civil society groups are seizing an ever-greater voice in how governments run countries and how corporations do business. This volume brings together a multinational group of authors to help policy makers, scholars, corporate executives, and activists themselves understand the profound issues raised. How powerful are these networks? Is their current prominence a temporary fluke or a permanent change in the nature of international power? What roles should they play as the world struggles to cope with the new global agenda? The book's six case studies investigate the role of transnational civil society in the global anti-corruption movement, nuclear arms control, dam-building and sustainability, democracy movements, landmines, and human rights.

Carnegie does not take institutional positions on public policy issues; the views represented herein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of Carnegie, its staff, or its trustees.

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