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Sustainable development: 10 successes and 10 failures

This brief prepared by the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) documents the top 10 sustainable development successes stories and also the 10 failures in the decade following the 1992 UN 'Earth Summit' in Rio de Janeiro.

The 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) in Johannesburg reviewed global progress on commitments made at the 1992 UN Conference on Environment and Development (the 'Earth Summit') in Rio de Janeiro.

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http://www.iisd.org/briefcase/ ten+ten.asp
Published: 2002
Source: International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) (http://www.iisd.org)
Added to ADG on: 22 August 2007 , contributed by: ADG team
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