Sustainability: A Critical Analysis of the 1992 and 2002 Summits
This six-page postgraduate paper critically evaluates the outcomes of the 1992 Earth Summit and the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development. The author explains why there are differences between the two in terms of what they achieved, and notes that the participants of both summits emphasized that the international community must meet the challenges facing us, or all of humanity will face the consequences. He also concludes that proclamations and declarations are useless unless they are supported by coordinated, determined, effective efforts to reduce natural resource depletion, fight poverty, control pollution, fine-tune globalization, and foster unity and cooperation among all of the nations on this earth.
