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Preferred term
World Summit on Sustainable Development
Definition
- The World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD), which convened in Johannesburg, South Africa, from August 26 to September 4, 2002, aimed to reaffirm and assess the progress of the multilateral commitments launched at the Rio Conference 10 years earlier. Specifically, the WSSD was designed to evaluate the progress of the Millennium Goals and Agenda 21 and to set new priorities and goals to counter global poverty and environmental degradation in the coming years. [Source: Encyclopedia of Geography; World Summit on Sustainable Development]
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https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/World_Summit_on_Sustainable_Development
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