What we share is the deep concern about the organised irresponsibility that rules the globe, and the conviction that change towards a world more hospitable to people meanful of nature is possible - and indeed indispensable.

In 1992 Rio Earth Summit launched "sustainable development" as a new name of progress.. After ten years, in August 2002, the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg will be an occasion for reflection and re-assessment of Rio resolution.Many countries across the globe have launched National Environment Plans , budget lines have been established, and environmental legislation has been drafted. Moreover, monitoring and impact assessment has enriched the toolbox of administration, while nearly every country created environmental ministries. Environmental issues have thus been elevated onto political agenda. Rio helped establish environmental management as a duty of governments worldwide.

The concern for nature  has not only filtered into politics at the administrative level, but at the cognitive level as well. The very notion of "sustainable development", around which the Rio Conference  revolved, has evolved into highly successful compromise between opposing parties.