Rio 20

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Rio20

• Felix Dodds
• Executive Director
• Stakeholder Forum

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Stakeholder Forum

• Set up in 1987 as UNEP-UK then became UNED-UK
  (1993) and then Stakeholder Forum (2000)
• Internation Advisory Board includes NRDC,
  National Wildlife Federation, WRI and World
  Information transfer from USA others include
  WWF Int, IUCN, Development Alternatives, ENDA
  WBCSD, IUSU, ICLEI, Global Unions, NRG4SD

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What does Stakeholder Forum do?

• Help facilitate stakeholder engagement in
  intergovernmental processes- Organised
  stakeholder preparations for the Ad Hoc
  Environment Ministers (Norway 2000), Bonn Water
  (2001), WSSD Regional Prep Coms (2001) , Bonn
  Energy (2004), UNEP GPA IGR-2 (2006), Stakeholder
  engagement in the UN ECOSOC AMR and MDG8 Summit
  (2008)
• Global Public Policy Network on Water Management
  working on water and climate
• Sustainable Development Governance eg High Level
  Panel on System Wide Coherence (2006) , review of
  the CSD, UNEP

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What does Stakeholder Forum do?

• Capacity Building - to engage in
  intergovernmental meetings eg Negotiating and
  Implementing MEAs, workshops for UNEP and UNDP
• Informing people about sustainable development
  Outreach newsletter since 1996 and now
  Stakeholder radio with BBC World Service Trust
  and UN Radio, developing a web 2.0 platform for
  the Summit
• Promoting dialogue on sustainable development eg
  through books

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Stakeholder Forum Books
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Adapted from John Elkingtons Waves and Down waves
Future
2001 September 11th
1992 Earth Summit
2002 WSSD
1991 Gulf War
High interest
1987 Montreal Convention
1993 Climate Bio-div. Conventions
2001 Genoa G8
2003 Gulf War II
1985 Vienna Convention
1994 Desertification Convention
Medium interest
1999 Battle of Seattle
2004 Madrid Bomb
1995 Straddling Fish Stocks, Copenhagen, Beijing
1972 - Stockholm
1973 Oil Crises
Low interest
Fourth Wave Environmental/ Economic and Human
Security
Third Wave Globalisation and Governance
First Wave Limits
Second Wave Regulation
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Albert Einstein

• "We can't solve problems by using the same kind
  of thinking we used when we created them.
• Or
• "Two things are infinite the universe and human
  stupidity and I'm not sure about the universe."

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Preparations for 2012 to date

• 2007 September President Lula of Brazil calls for
  a new Earth Summit
• 2008 September G77 backs call for a Summit
• 2008 November 4th G77 tables GA resolution
  calling for a Summit
• 2008 November 12th Stakeholder Forum host
  workshop on Rio20 Donostia Declaration
• 2008 December GA decides to defer decision to
  2009
• 2008 December Stakeholder Forum sets up
  www.earthsummit2012.org
• 2009 February Stakeholder Forum hosts dinner for
  governments on Rio20

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Donostia Declaration

• Economic, Environment and Human Security
• A new Brundtland Commission on a Green New Deal
• A review of Agenda 21 and JPoI
• Reform of Sustainable Development Governance
• convention on access to information,
  participation and justice (Principle 10 of the
  Rio Declaration)
• Convention on Corporate Accountability

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February Non Paper

• Newly Emerging Spirit of International
  Cooperation
• The need for Global Governance
• Recognising Common but Differentiated
  Responsibilities
• Importance of Focus and Measurable Outcomes
• Options Facing Humanity
• Not to Distract from or Delay Progress Elsewhere
• New Green Deal

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Brazilian Submission to the UN Secretary General

• Review of implementation
• (i). Review of the implementation of the Rio
  Declaration on Environment and Development,
• (ii). Review of the implementation of Agenda 21
  the Program for the Further Implementation of
  Agenda 21 and the Johannesburg Plan of
  Implementation.
• (iii). Review of the implementation of the 3 Rio
  Conventions CBD, UNFCCC, UNCCD.
• (iv)For the UNFCCC, 2012 will mark the conclusion
  of the first commitment period of the Kyoto
  Protocol. The 2012 Conference will provide an
  opportunity to contribute to the review of its
  implementation.

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International governance for sustainable
development

• Look at reform of UNEP
• Deal with the fragmentation of the system
• Reform of the CSD
• convergence for deliberation on the reform of
  the international institutions for sustainable
  development

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Green economy

• economic and financial crises has highlighted the
  need to reinstate the role of the State both as
  regulator and driver for sustainable development
• structural changes are required to sustain a true
  transformation.
• several alternatives of reform, regulation,
  fiscal stimulus, capacity building and
  prioritization of sectors and regions should be
  analyzed

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Green Economy

• Stimulating the world economy through policies
  that give priority to sustainable patterns of
  consumption and production
• New investment opportunities - in fields such as
  energy, transport, agriculture and infrastructure
  - can be coupled with incentives to sustainable
  innovation and technology transfer.
• creation of green jobs

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Water

• Water is essential for socioeconomic development
  and for maintaining the integrity of the
  environment
• Access to water
• A place setter for Environmental Security Issues?

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Brazilian Outcomes

• A comprehensive political declaration that would
  indicate new areas of convergence and consolidate
  the international consensus on the paradigm of
  green economy to recall and reaffirm Agenda
  21, the Rio Declaration and the Johannesburg Plan
  of Implementation identify gaps and propose
  actions for bridging them.
• A plan of action for the achievement of the
  objectives set forth by the Conference, including
  with regard to the implementation of the green
  economy paradigm.

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Earth Summit 2012

• A NEW GREEN ECONOMY
• New Paradigm Human Environmental and Economic
  Security
• Earth Charter
• Agenda 2030
• Possibly Conventions access to information,
  participation and environmental justice and
  corporate accountability
• Obama approach
• Engage stakeholders and people

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Senator Robert Kennedy (1968)

• A revolution is coming a revolution which will
  be peaceful if we are wise enough Compassionate
  if we care enough successful if we are fortunate
  enough. But a revolution is coming whether we
  will it or not. We can affect its character we
  cannot alter its inevitability.
• A more fundamental revolution is needed, not in
  40 years time and not only in one country, but in
  the next ten to twenty years and across the
  globe..

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What to do

• Discuss what you think the Summit should be about
• Coordinate a response to the White House and the
  State Department calling for a Summit in 2012
• Start a country wide conversation on how to
  create a green economy