Summit review

From the above studies has come a composite picture of hydrate formation at Hydrate Ridge, with particular emphasis on the southern summit. While a composite picture is attempted in the following few pages, the interested reader will turn to the above review articles for a detailed expansion. 

UN (2001a) Report of the United Nations Secretary-General Kofi A. Annan We the children End-decade review of the follow-up to the World Summit for Children. New York, UNICEF for the United Nations (A/S-27/3 http //www.unicef.org). 

UNICEF (2001a) Progress since the Worid Summit for Children A statistical review. New York, United Nations Children s Fund. 

Progress in these areas after 10 years was reviewed at the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg. Its Plan of Implementation (WSSD 2002) set the goal that by the year 2020 chemicals should be produced and used in ways that minimise significant adverse impacts on the environment and on human health. This has been the portal goal that has since been at the forefront of global chemical safety efforts, not least SAICM (Section 12.2.4.1). 

This chapter is not by any means intended to be a review of ice-core research. Our purpose is rather to select a few illustrations of the specific scientific challenges raised by the ice-core records— especially the most recent, high-resolution records from Antarctica and the Greenland Summit—and to outline an interdisciplinary research strategy for tackling these challenges. 

A further meeting. The World Summit on Sustainable Development, was held in Johannesburg (South Africa) to review progress in the ten years since UNCED. 

The precautionary principle states that where there are threats of serious or irreversible damage, lack of scientific certainty shall not be used as a reason for postponing cost-effective measures to prevent environmental degradation. In its Communication of 2/2/00 the European Commission emphasised that regulatory measures that invoke the Precautionary Principle should start from a scientific evaluation. This should be as complete as possible and should identify at each stage the degree of scientific uncertainty. The European Council endorsed the Precautionary Principle at the Nice Summit in December 2000, and recalled measures should be periodically reviewed and amended as necessary. 

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