The United Nations held an international convention in 2002 at Johannesburg, South Africa. The World Summit on Sustainable Development was however widely criticized by many environmental groups.
They said that the summit did not produce any productive international agreements; rather it tried to create new timetables for fulfilling Agenda 21 from the Rio Conference, and that took 10 years after its introduction.
However, the World Summit did make an agreement to restore the world’s depleted fisheries and implemented an action plan. The Johannesburg Declaration was the major outcome of the summit. The declaration was based on the declarations of the Stockholm Conference of 1972 and Earth Summit of 1992.
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