1. Part 3:
The Rio+20 Agenda
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2. 1. Secure renewed political commitment for
sustainable development,
2. Assess the progress to date and the
remaining gaps in the implementation of
the outcomes of the major SD
3. Address new and emerging challenges
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3.  a green economy in the context of
sustainable development and poverty
eradication;
 the institutional framework for
sustainable development;
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5.  Efforts to designate ‘planetary
boundaries’, which are intended to
define a ‘safe operating space’ for
humanity with respect to Earth systems,
have begun. The economy must be seen
in this perspective
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6. • Climate change rate (exceeded)
• Biodiversity loss (terrestrial and marine)
(exceeded)
• Interference with the nitrogen and
phosphorous cycles (exceeded)
• Stratospheric ozone depletion
• Ocean acidification
• Global freshwater use
• Change in land use
• Chemical pollution
• Atmospheric aerosol loading
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7.  A green economy is one that results in
improved human well being and social
equity, while significantly reducing
environmental risks and ecological
scarcities
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8. • Achieving sustainability rest almost
entirely on getting the economy right
• Present economic models have not
substantially addressed social
marginalisation and resource depletion
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9. 1. Reduce, reuse and recycle, including
making all production green
2. De-growth or a critical approach to the
system of economy, based on what is
known as “strong sustainability”
3. Distributive growth, looks at SCP in a
’frugal’ way
4. Global transition – incremental change via
strengthening key institutions
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11.  The term governance refers to the
process or method by which society is
governed, or the ‘condition of ordered
rule’.
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12. • Participation
• Accountability
• Transparency
• Implementation
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13.  Need to further develop and strengthen
functions and systems within the UN
and at national level on sustainable
development
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14.  Make sure that environmental issues are
handled by knowledgeable elements of
the UN, and allow the environmental
institutions a stronger political
authority, decision power over financial
institutions, power of implementation
etc.
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16.  Create a Council on Sustainable
Development as a subsidiary body of the
General Assembly (on par with the
Council on Human Rights)
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17.  Elevate UNEP to a specialised agency in
order to add political clout and authority
to environmental issues, instead of its
present position in the UN hierarch as a
’programme’.
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18.  Strengthen the governance system for
sustainable development at all levels,
local, national, regional and global
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19. Design and • Food security
develop a system • Climate security
which can handle • Energy security
emerging issues • Water security
and which can • Ecosystems
actually security
strengthen the • Other issues
merging issues,
e.g.,
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20.  Develop a basis for three new
frameworks conventions at Rio
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1 - Principle 10: access to
information, participation and
justice; (WRI)
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21. 2 Advance Corporate Social
Responsibility, CSR, based on the ISO
26 000 outcome (Stakeholder Forum)
3 Develop the precautionary principle
to a framework convention to
include issues on emerging
technologies, bio-engineering and
nano-technology (The ETC Group)
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22.  Develop a new and visionary document
on how the world should look like in
2030 complete with concepts visions,
values, all elements that should be
brought into the expressed political
commitments for sustainable
development
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23. A political initiative from G-77
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24.  Colombia and Guatemala propose a key
outcome of the Rio + 20 process that
can be the definition and agreement of a
suite of Sustainable Development Goals
(SDGs), similar and supportive of the
MDGs.
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25.  Defined internationally, the SDGs would
serve both for comparing results as well as
furthering opportunities for cooperation,
including South-South cooperation.
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 The SDGs and the MDGs should be fully
complementary. It is worth noting that while
the MDGs applied only to developing
countries, the SDGs would have universal
application.
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26.  Objectives agreed to internationally
could eventually be underpinned by
targets .
 They would thus be fully aligned with
national contexts and could therefore be
a useful tool for guiding public policies.
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27.  The process would build upon the
Johannesburg WSSD Plan of Implementation
as well as Agenda 21.
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 The SDGs would be based on Agenda 21
given that it already maps our requirements
for sustainable development. This would also
avoid reopening debates as Agenda 21 does
not need to be renegotiated.
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28.  The process should result in the definition of
a small number of key Objectives that could
be later elaborated through a suite of targets,
much like the MDGs.
 The proposal is that a reasonable deliverable
reached by June 2012 at Rio would be
agreement on a suite of Objectives at a
broad level.
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29.  This would mean prioritizing those
themes and issues that are considered
critical factors in moving forward the
sustainable development agenda,
inspired by Agenda 21. These could
broadly include issues such as:
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30. • Changing Consumption Patterns
• Promoting Sustainable Human
Settlement Development
• Biodiversity and Forests
• Combating Poverty
• Oceans
• Water Resources
• Advancing Food Security
• Energy, including from renewable sources
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31. Just recently.....
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32. • Employment creation is important to
focus on
• A framework for SCP (sustainable
consumption and production) can be a
contribution to green economy
transition
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33. • The 9 planetary boundaries
• A council for SD
• Principles of equity
• A global SD economy
• Energy, a possible forum or council
• Non state actors
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34.  Are on-line and contain about 14 000
pages
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35.  About the direction and outcome of
the document –
 Governments will keep inputting
until the very last possible moment
in May -
 The formal informals, held every
month January until May, will be
important for the final document
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36.  Know Your Own Goals
 Know the Decision-making Process in Your Country
 Know When To Work at What Level
 Know the Decision-making Context
 Know the Tools at Your Disposal
 Know When To Make Your Position
 Know the Government Officials
 Know the Key UN Officials
 Know Your Allies
 Know Your Adversaries
 Know Your Limits
 Know Your Brackets and Terms
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37.  It is too late to be a pessimist. Play to
win!
 THANK YOU!
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38.  Jan-Gustav Strandenaes
 Mobile: +47 470 18 337
 jg_str946@hotmail.com
 Don Edwards
 Mobile: +202-297-1603
 don@justicesustainability.com
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