The categories of sustainability in local projects the equator prize at WSSD- Johannesburg- 2002

Abstract

In 1992, the Rio Earth Summit focused the international community on the critical linkages between environment and development. 1 In 2000, dealing with the concepts of globalization, the acceleration of environmental degradation, the development in policies, institutions and technologies, and the remaining of social inequality and poverty, 2 the world formalized goals that have been discussed since after 1992 through the United Nations Summits. 3 These goals of calling for reductions in poverty, improvements in health and education, and protection of environment were expanded and endorsed by 149 heads of state and the United Nations General Assembly in the Millenium Declaration. An integration of this Declaration with the International Development Goals resulted in the Eighth Millenium Development Goals, 4 which took into account the conservation of biodiversity, the combat of deforestation, the management of sustainable lands, the protection and promotion of human health and the combat of poverty. The Eighth Millenium Development Goals were the basis for the formulation of programs, by the UNDP, to respond to those challenges, and to be discussed at the World Summit on Sustainable Development, in Johannesburg, 2002. One of these programs came to be the Equator Initiative, and the institution of the Equator Prize. The communities nominated for this prize, as mister Kofi A Annan said, demonstrated that the Millenium Goals are within reach, and that there are effective local solutions to many of the * Ph.D.