From Africa Recovery, Vol.14#4 (January 2001), Watch page

RIO + 10
Earth Summit review set for South Africa

Ten years after the UN Conference on Environment and Development, a review of progress made in implementing its goals will be held in Johannesburg, South Africa, in 2002. The UN confirmed the venue on 8 December, in response to an offer by President Thabo Mbeki to host the event. South African Deputy Minister of Environmental Affairs and Tourism Rejoice Mabudafhasi said that holding the meeting in South Africa should be a major boost for the continent as a whole. No official date has been set, but sources at the South African Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism point to June as a likely time.

The summit will bring together world governments, concerned citizens, UN agencies, multilateral institutions and other major actors to review progress over the past 10 years in implementing the Agenda 21 goals set by the "Earth Summit," as it was known, held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in June 1992. The Johannesburg "Rio + 10" meeting also will set further goals for the next decade. "It is therefore significant that it should take place in the developing world, where the issues of development and the environment are fundamental to the daily struggle against poverty," Mr. Mabudafhasi said.

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