The World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) International Eminent Persons Meeting on Inter-linkages: Strategies for Bridging Problems and Solutions to Work Towards Sustainable Development, took place from 3-4 September 2001 at the United Nations University Centre in Tokyo, Japan.

The meeting, organized by the United Nations University, the Japanese Ministries of the Environment and Foreign Affairs, and the Global Legislators Organization for a Balanced Environment (GLOBE) International, was attended by over 70 invited participants, including representatives of governments, the academic and scientific communities, intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations, and the secretariats of multilateral environmental agreements (MEAs).
The purpose of this meeting was to: review the state of the environment based on linkages between issues; examine the problems and challenges arising from such linkages, and the appropriate policy responses; and assess how such issues could best be addressed within preparatory processes leading to the WSSD to be held in Johannesburg in 2002. Participants met in three working groups focusing on inter-linkages in Agenda 21, inter-linkages among MEAs, and strategies for sustainable development. The meeting built on earlier international and regional conferences on synergies and coordination between MEAs held in Tokyo (July 1999) and Kuala Lumpur (February 2001). The Sustainable Developments report outlining these discussions in detail can be found at: http://enb.iisd.org/crs/interlinkages/interlink3/