India endorses a Rio+20 Earth Summit in 2012
November 2009: India has roundly endorsed the idea of a new summit and in a statement to UN Committee II said “In this regard we also support the holding of a ‘Rio+20’ event in...
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Stakeholder Forum Workshop Series in New York on Earth Summit 2012
22nd- 24th October 2009: Stakeholder Forum facilitated two workshops to discuss the themes and focus of the proposed Rio+20 Earth Summit in 2012. The workshops sought to address the issues that will need to...
European Union calls for the Green Economy to be a major focus of an Earth Summit in 2012
In a joint statement from the Third European Union-Brazil Summit in Stockholm, the EU has welcomed the Brazilian Government’s offer to host a United Nations high-level event on sustainable development in Rio de Janeiro in 2012....
Stakeholder Forum and the European Economic and Social Committee host multi-stakeholder conference: ‘Uniting For Sustainability’: Towards a World Summit on Sustainable Development 2012
1st – 2nd October 2009: Together with the European Economic and Social Committee, Stakeholder Forum hosted a two-day multi-stakeholder conference on Earth Summit 2012 in Brussels. It was the first major event to be...
US Coalition of NGOs and Civil Society Organisations deliver open letter to President Obama to support Earth Summit 2012
29th September 2009: A number of prominent civil society organisations have come together to deliver a letter to President Obama urging him to support the current proposal before the United Nations to host an...
France and Germany call for reform of Global Environmental Governance
21st September 2009: In a joint letter to the UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon, Angela Merkel and Nicolas Sarkozy have suggested that the ‘broad lines of agreement’ for Copenhagen need to be ‘clarified’....
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....
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...
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...
European Union responds to call by UN Division for Sustainable Development to submit views for Secretary General’s report on a possible Earth Summit in 2012
28th May 2009: In a letter to Tariq Bunari, Director of the Division for Sustainable Development (DSD) within UN DESA, the Czech Republic on behalf of the European Union has announced that it is...