The World Summit on sustainable development. Stakes and consequences

Abstract

Ten years after the first "Earth Summit? at Rio in Brazil in June 92, a second Summit was flagged of on August 26th and was concluded on September 4th. Indeed, this Summit has a more practical motive than Rio's, according to the Summit Secretary General, Nitin Desai, who declared that we didn't need to hope for great declarations but for new concepts and added that time was right to combat the existing problems.