Plain Language Guide to the World Summit on Sustainable Development

Janet R Strachan is an adviser at the Commonwealth Secretariat on sustainable development policy and negotiation. She has 20 years experience working with over 45 countries in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Pacific, and the Mediterranean. Georgina Ayre is an environmental sustainability policy advisor with experience in multi-stakeholder dialogues. She recently joined the UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, and is predominantly working with the United Nations system. Jan McHarry is an independent consultant on sustainable development, local sustainability, waste and recycling issues. Rosalie Call way is an international policy officer at the Local Government International Bureau. Her work focuses on sustainable development and governance issues.

'The guide will be widely used in the Commonwealth and beyond to promote understanding and engagement in the WSSD process at all levels' From the Foreword by DON MCKINNON, Commonwealth Secretary General.

• Foreword * Preface * Background * Part I: The JPOI - Introduction * Poverty Eradication * Changing Unsustainable Patterns of Consumption and Production * Protecting and Managing the Natural Resource Base of Economic and Social Development * Globalization * Health and Sustainable Development * Small Island Developing States * Sustainable Development for Africa * Other Regional * Initiatives * Means of Implementation * Institutional Framework for Sustainable Development * Part II: Implementing the JPOI - WSSD Partnerships for Sustainable Development * The Role of the UN Commission on Sustainable Development * Annexe A: Plan of Implementation of the World Summit on Sustainable Development * Annex B: Johannesburg Declaration on Sustainable Development * Index