The primary aim of the Johannesburg World Summit on Sustainable Development was to hold a ten year review of the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro and to reinvigorate the global commitment to sustainable development.
The summit agreed the "Johannesburg Declaration on Sustainable Development", and a plan of implementation reaffirming commitment to existing targets in the UN Millennium Declaration and other international agreements, and including a range of new action-based commitments and time-bound targets in relation to access to sanitation, safer production and use of chemicals, access to energy and increasing the global share of renewable energy sources, reduction in the current rate of loss of biodiversity, development of programmes to achieve sustainable production and consumption, maintenance or restoration of depleted fish stocks, ratification of the Kyoto Protocol by those states which have not yet ratified, strengthening of health care systems for the delivery of basic health care to all, and, promotion of good governance and gender equity.