This document provides the program of side events for informal consultations on the zero draft outcome document for the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD or Rio+20) held from 19-23 March 2012. It lists over 50 side events organized over the 5 day period covering topics such as the green economy, sustainable development, poverty eradication, food sovereignty, private sector engagement, gender, oceans, water management and more. The side events were organized by various UN bodies, governments, NGOs and organizations to inform discussions around the Rio+20 outcome document.

1.
INFORMAL CONSULTATIONS ON ZERO DRAFT OF UNCSD OUTCOME DOCUMENT
19-23 MARCH 2012
THIRD INTERSESSIONAL MEETING OF UNCSD PREPCOM
26-27 MARCH 2012
PROGRAMME OF SIDE EVENTS
Date Time Room Title Organizers
Brazilian Government – Ministry of Social Development
1:15-2:45 Eco Socio-Environmental Protection Floor and Fight against Hunger (MDS)
20 Years of the Rio Conventions: Opportunities and Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity
19 March 2012
1:15-2:45 B Challenges for Synergies (CBD)
The Role of Technology in the “Green Economy” Action Group on Erosion, Technology and Concentration
6:15-7:45 B and the need for Technology Assessment / Rio+20 – (ETC Group), Academic Council on the United Nations
A Global Innovation Summit? System (ACUNS)
Creating a more effective system of environmental Association of World Citizens and the World Alliance to
6:15-7:45 A and sustainable development governance Transform the UN (WATUN)

2. Date Time Room Title Organizers
1:15‐2:45 Eco The Sustainable and Just City Ford Foundation
The Role of Civil Society/Major Groups in the future CIVICUS
1:15‐2:45 B IFSD
20 March 2012
Achieving Green Societies through Education for UNESCO (on behalf of the UN Inter-Agency Committee
1:15‐2:45 7 Sustainable Development (ESD) for the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable
Development (IAC/DESD)
Tebtebba (Indigenous Peoples' International Centre for
6:15‐7:45 B Key Messages of Indigenous Peoples for Rio +20 Policy Research and Education)
The International Council for Science (ICSU), UN
6:15‐7:45 7 Science messages for Rio+20 Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
Date Time Room Title Organizers
The Future we want with ICTs and Innovation International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
1:15‐2:45 Eco
21 March 2012
Bringing Rio Principles back to Sustainable Gorakhpur Environmental Action Group (GEAG) in
1:15‐2:45 B Development Agenda at Rio+20 collaboration with PAIRVI Associates & CECOEDECON
Food Sovereignty and Agroecology – A New La Via Campesina
1:15‐2:45 A paradigm for Development

3. Rights for Sustainability and Sustainable IBON International and Both ENDS
6:15‐7:45 B Development Governance
Sustainable Development Goals and MDG post 2015; Organized by UN-Women, Switzerland, Women’s Major
6:15‐7:45 7 the gender dimension Group
Date Time Room Title Organizers
UN Country-level experience in supporting Rio+20 UNDG Task Team on Environmental Sustainability,
1:15‐2:45 Eco themes Climate Change and Rio+20
A Roadmap for Ocean Sustainability Pew Environment Group on behalf of the High Seas
22 March 2012
1:15‐2:45 7 Alliance
Agriculture at Rio+20: What should be decided – and Biovision, Millennium Institute, and the More and Better
what kind of agriculture should be promoted? Network
6:15‐7:45 7
Green Economy in the Context of Sustainable UNEP, UNDP, DESA
6:15‐7:45 Eco Development and Poverty Eradication: Sharing
National Experiences on Frameworks for Action
Date Time Room Title Organizers
Towards the people's Summit at Rio+20: Alternative UN-NGLS & Social Watch
23 March 2012
1:15‐2:45 Eco civil society perspectives on the zero draft
Planetary and social boundaries: a framework for Oxfam, Sustainlabour, Vitae Civilis
1:15‐2:45 B Rio+20 and Sustainable Development Goals?

4.
Date Time Room Title Organizers
Dialogue of Executive Coordinators with Major Office of the Executive Coordinators
8:15‐9:30 7
Groups
Panel Discussion on Integrated Water Resources Permanent Mission of Thailand to the UN
1:15‐2:45 E
Management in the Context of Rio+20
Sustainable Transport and Mobility: Essential Inter-American Development Bank
1:15‐2:45 7 Building Blocks for Global Sustainable Development
Why sustainable energy and equity matter: Lessons UNDP & UNECE
1:15‐2:45 Eco from the field
Combat Desertification and Sustainable Development China’s State Forestry Admin, National Development &
in Inner Mongolia of China - Maowusu Biomass Reform Commission of China, and Maowusu Biomass
1:15‐2:45 B
26 March 2012
Thermoelectric Project Thermoelectric Company (Inner Mongolia Autonomous
Region, China)
Private sector activities related to Rio+20 & views on Permanent Mission of Netherlands to UN
1:15‐2:45 1 the zero draft - briefing by Business Action for
Sustainable Development
Special Event on Fossil Fuel Subsidy Reform: New Zealand Mission on behalf of) Friends of Fossil Fuel
1:15‐2:45 6 Building Momentum at Rio and Beyond Subsidy Reform and International Institute for Sustainable
Development-Global Subsidies Initiative
Ombudspersons for Future Generations: a proposal World Future Council, UNEP & Rio+twenties
6:15‐7:45 E
for Rio+20
Five projects and 20 proposals from the Social Rencontres du Mont-Blanc (RMB) - International Forum
6:15‐7:45 B
Economy leaders to change the model with RIO+20 of social Economy Leaders
Oceans at Rio+20: Highlighting Oceans Issues in the International Coastal and Ocean Organization
Rio+20 Outcome Document;
6:15‐7:45 Eco
Moving the Ocean Agenda at and beyond Rio Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of
UNESCO
Moving to Safety - migration, emergencies and International Organization for Migration (IOM)
6:15‐7:45 7
adaptation strategies

5.
Date Time Room Title Organizers
Green Jobs for Youth International Labour Organization (ILO), UNEP
8:15‐9:30 7
Nation Proposal of the Republic of Kazakhstan for Permanent Mission of Kazakhstan to the UN
1:15‐2:45 E Rio+20 "Time for Radical Strategic Decisions"
Inter-agency Assessment of Sustainable Economic Commission for Latin America and the
Development in Latin America: Progress, gaps and Caribbean (ECLAC)
1:15‐2:45 7
strategic guidelines 20 years on from the Earth
Summit
27 March 2012
Women's Critical Perspectives on the "Green Women in Europe for a Common Future (WECF)
1:15‐2:45 Eco Economy" Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development
(APWLD)
Private and public solutions for ensuring Sustainable The Nordic countries
1:15‐2:45 B
Energy for All
Meeting the Challenge of Communicating Rio+20: NRDC, EMA, GCCA, Global Green and DPI
1:15‐2:45 1 Engaging the Global Public in the Transformation to
a Sustainable Future
Special Event on The Trade Dimension of Rio+20: UNCTAD, UNDESA and ECLAC
1:15‐2:45 6
Key Issues for the Outcome Document
A Global Call to End Plastic Pollution Natural Resources Defense Council, Aspen Catto Fellows,
6:15‐7:45 Eco Plastic Pollution Coalition
Dialogue on a convention for social responsibility Stakeholder Forum for a Sustainable Future
6:15‐7:45 E
and accountability