July 27, 2002
A coalition of Taiwanese environmental activist groups have called for greater efforts to promote international networking and participation by local NGO's at the United Nations World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) to be held in Johannesburg, South Africa from August 26 to September 4 this year.
These were some of the recommendations and points of discussion as government officials from the forestry and agricultural departments joined representatives from a number of environmental organizations at a round-table forum yesterday to foster exchanges of ideas and to formulate a new policy planning. Organized by the Society of Wilderness, the event yesterday is part of a series of public forums being held to support and publicize the environmental coalition's goal of taking part in the U.N. World Summit on Sustainable Development.
The forum dealt with several of the U.N.'s ongoing programs such as the WSSD, the Convention on Biodiversity, forest preservation projects, and other international environmental movements.
Legislator Chao Jung-ching, Director of the Forestry Council Yu Star Huang, representative from the Cabinet's Committee for Sustainable Development Wang Hsin, and NGO representatives spoke of the need for Taiwan's groups to co-ordinate better in their work, to take a greater role in the international network of environmental organizations and to discuss the importance of participating at the upcoming global summit conferences.
Focused on setting up global action plans and a strategy for sustainable development, the Johannesburg Summit 2002 looks at the results of implementation, progress of the agenda, and programs adopted at the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio. It also evaluates new goals for the international environmental movement.
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