Stakeholder Forum launches Paper on Sustainable Development Governance
22nd February 2010: Stakeholder Forum has launched a concept paper on Sustainable Development Governance at the UNEP Governing Council meeting in Bali.
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UNEP Governing Council to release Ministerial Declaration
The 11th Special Session of the UNEP Governing Council and Global Ministerial Environment Forum is to issue a Ministerial Declaration in addition to the usual summary of the Ministerial Discussions.
President Lula of Brazil proposes a ‘Rio+20’ Earth Summit in 2012
25th September 2007: Standing before the United Nations General Assembly one day after the High Level Event on Climate Change, the President of Brazil proposed convening in 2012 a World Summit on the environment,...
Rio+5, 1997
The description of sustainable development in Agenda 21 called for a total shift in the status quo of prevalent value systems and institutional processes. Such global change could never have occurred over night. When progress...
World Summit on Sustainable Development, Johannesburg 2002
Stakeholder Forum and a number of governments worked from 1998 to 2000 to create momentum for an Earth Summit in 2002. South Africa hosted the Summit, beating South Korea, Brazil and Indonesia in the...
Global Environmental Governance Forum: Reflecting on the past, moving into the future
June 28th –July 2nd 2009, Glion, Switzerland: The Global Environmental Governance Forum: Reflecting on the Past, Moving into the Future, hosted by the Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy and the College of...
Stakeholders in the United States meet to discuss the a Rio+20 Earth Summit in 2012
July 2009: Meetings were held throughout July in Washington DC to bring together a range of stakeholders to discuss and share ideas on the possible focus of a Rio+20 Earth Summit in 2012. International...
France endorses Earth Summit 2012
6th– 7th Sept 2009: In a statement issued after a State visit by France to Brazil on 6th – 7th September 2009, Nicolas Sarkozy has announced France’s support for an Earth Summit in 2012....
Stakeholder Forum Executive Director Felix Dodds addresses Event on Rio+20 Earth Summit held at the 17th Session of the Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD17)
17th May 2009: At a side event hosted by the Brazilian government during CSD17, Felix Dodds presented his vision for a Rio+20 Earth Summit in 2012, building on many of the multi-stakeholder discussions and...
Stakeholder Forum hosts informal government dinner on Earth Summit 2012 in New York
February 2009: During the Intergovernmental Preparatory Meeting for the 17th session of the Commission on Sustainable Development, Stakeholder Forum convened a number of governments from North and South to informally discuss the possibility of...