"Global Sustainability Targets Building accountability for the 21st Century" provides an overview of the multitude of existing global targets for sustainable development. As the international community prepares for the UN Conference on Sustainable Development in 2012 ('Rio+20'), there will be pressure for new targets to be set and for new commitments to be made. Stakeholder Forum recognises that this is an important part of any Summit outcome, and hopes that this overview of existing targets may assist governments to consolidate targets where possible, and to identify gaps where new targets might be necessary. This document also intends to enhance accountability for previous commitments, by gathering together in one place all the time-bound targets that governments are obliged to deliver on sustainable development, as a tool for civil society to hold them to account.

The targets indentified in this document are drawn from the following global agreements:

? Agenda 21 ? Outcome from the UN Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED)
- 'Rio Earth Summit' ? in 1992
? Commission on Sustainable Development ? outcome documents from all sessions of the
Commission on Sustainable Development
? Millennium Development Goals ? goals and targets agreed at the Millennium Summit in
2000
? Johannesburg Plan of Implementation ? outcome document from the World Summit on
Sustainable Development (WSSD) in 2002
? Rio Conventions ? Rio Conventions ? the Convention on Biological Diversity (UNCBD), Kyoto Protocol to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)

To read the full report click the link below

http://www.stakeholderforum.org/fileadmin/files/globalsustainabiltytargets.pdf