Stakeholder views for a sustainable future: A synthesis of views from different major groups across the globe on possible the outcomes of the World Summit on Sustainable Development

Stakeholders throughout the world are helping in many different ways to make the incremental transition towards amore sustainable society. Several groups have made significant progress on sustainable development over the past ten years in their own activities both on the ground and at national and international levels. However, all groups recognise that there is much more to be clone and most want to help achieve further progress. Many Stakeholders are now actively preparing to play a major part in the World Summit for Sustainable Development (Earth Sumrnit 2002) and the activities that come out of it. Stakeholders have been actively engaged in the regional preparatory processes, and representatives of the nine major groups have recently prepared global syntheses on behalf of their groups as an input to the second Preparatory Comrnittee for the WSSD in New York in January. In this paper Stakeholder Forum for Our Common Future (formerly UNED Forum) has pulled together some key recommendations from the different stakeholder submissions as a contribution to the debate on options to be addressed at the Sumrnit and beyond. Much of the findings from the review of progress since Rio is common to all the stakeholders, and indeed to the UN Secretary General's report. This paper does not repeat that analysis. Rather it concentrates on those recommendations for action that are emerging from the various stakeholder inputs.