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Globalization and Health BioMedCentral Short report Open Access The World Summit on Sustainable Development: reaffirming the centrality of health Yasmin von Schirnding* Address: Sustainable Development and Healthy Environments Cluster World Health Organisation Geneva Switzerland Email: Yasmin von Schirnding* - vonschirndingy@ * Corresponding author Published: 10 May 2005 Received: 08 January 2005 Accepted: 10 May 2005 Globalization and Health 2005, 1:8 doi:10.1186/1744-8603-1-8 This article is available from: /content/1/1/8 ? 2005 von Schirnding; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract The World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) was held in Johannesburg in 2002 to review progress since the Rio conference in 1992, and to agree a new global deal on sustainable development. Unlike its predecessor, it was primarily concerned with implementation rather than with new treaties and targets, although a number of new targets were agreed, for example one on sanitation. Failure to agree a target on renewable energy was regarded as a major disappointment of the conference. While relatively modest in its achievements, and with difficulties in achieving consensus in key areas such as energy, trade, finance and globalisation, WSSD nevertheless succeeded in placing sustainable development back on the political agenda, giving new impetus, in particular to the environment and development needs of Africa, with a strong focus on local issues like household energy, water and sanitation. Health was singled out as one of five priority areas, along with water, energy, agriculture and biodiversity, and was devoted a separate chapter in the resulting Plan of Implementation, wh