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On sustainable development
The Rio Declaration
http://www.unep.org/Documents.Multilingual/Default.asp?documentid=78&articleid=1163
Johannesburg World Summit on Sustainable Development - Plan of Implementation:
http://www.johannesburgsummit.org/html/documents/summit_docs/2309_planfinal.htm
The Future We Want:
http://www.un.org/en/sustainablefuture/
This was adopted at the Rio+20 Summit in Rio in 2012.
The Reith Lectures 2000:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/events/reith_2000/default.stm
Keynote lectures from a range of speakers on various aspects of sustainable development (text, audio and video)
Securing the Future:
http://www.defra.gov.uk/publications/2011/03/25/securing-the-future-pb10589/
The latest version of the Government's sustainable development strategy, launched in March 2005. Replaces the 1999 strategy A Better Quality of Life: A Strategy for Sustainable Development for the United Kingdom.
Sustainable Development across the UK: Alongside 'Securing the Future' there is a Strategic Framework for the period to 2020 ('One future ' different paths: The UK's shared framework for sustainable development: http://archive.defra.gov.uk/sustainable/government/documents/SDFramework.pdf).
This provides the basis for national strategies, see:
England: See Defra’s website for more general information: http://sd.defra.gov.uk/
Scotland: Choosing our future: Scotland's Sustainable Development Strategy (2005): http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/SustainableDevelopment
Wales: One Wales, One Planet: the Sustainable Development Scheme of the Welsh Assembly:
http://wales.gov.uk/topics/sustainabledevelopment/publications/onewalesoneplanet/;jsessionid=7CF23E60772AACF964F54F59EF2CDE0C?lang=en
Northern Ireland: Everyone's Involved: A Sustainable Development Strategy for Northern Ireland (2010):
http://www.ofmdfmni.gov.uk/sustainable-development-strategy-lowres__2_.pdf
Sustainable Development Commission: http://www.sd-commission.org.uk
The Commission has now been abolished. Despite this its website still has valuable information about the Commission's advisory, advocacy and watchdog roles.
The EU’s Proposal for a Seventh Environmental Action Programme: Environment 2010: Living well, within the limits of our Planet:
http://ec.europa.eu/environment/newprg/
On the precautionary principle
European Commission Guidelines on the Precautionary Principle (COM(2000)1):
http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/health_consumer/library/pub/pub07_en.pdf
The European Commission’s understanding of what the precautionary principle entails (which must be read alongside the judgments of the Court of Justice mentioned in the chapter)
Cartagena Biosafety Protocol:
http://bch.cbd.int/protocol/
The most developed precautionary international law instrument. (For a helpful overview see the guide produced by FIELD and IUCN at http://www.unep.org/biosafety/files/IUCNGuide%20on%20the%20CPB.pdf
On the polluter pays principle
1974 OECD Recommendation on the Implementation of the Polluter-Pays Principle [C(74)223]:
http://www.oecd.org (and search on 'polluter-pays principle')
On 'wild law'
UK Environmental Law Association:
http://www.ukela.org/rte.asp?id=5