Ocean Sustainability: Monaco Message
Humanity has come to think of ocean resources and their potential as limitless. But the planet and its resources are finite. Humanity has carelessly exploited the oceans and its resources. This puts at risk...
Category: Preparatory Process News
Head of Rio+20 Addresses Eye on Earth Summit
Abu Dhabi, December 8, 2011: His Excellency Sha Zukang, United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs and the Secretary-General of the 2012 UN Conference on Sustainable Development, will share his vision regarding “The...
Launch of the “Future We Want: A Global Conversation”
Today the United Nations’ Secretary General and sustainable development experts are meeting in New York to discuss the challenges and opportunities of moving the green economy agenda at next year’s Earth Summit. For more...
NOW OPEN: Registration for the 2nd Intersessional Meeting of UNCSD (15-16 December)
We are pleased to announce that major groups registration for the Second Intersessional Meeting of UNCSD (known as Rio+20) is now open.
Stakeholder Forum Releases Summary Reports from Towards Bonn2011 Nexus Conference Workshops at Rio+20 Regional Preparatory Meetings
Stakeholder Forum has released two synthesis documents from workshops entitled ‘Towards Bonn2011 Conference: The Water, Energy and Food Security Nexus – Solutions for the Green Economy’ which took place during the recent UNCSD Regional...
BOND-DEG – UK NGO’s Joint Rio+20 Narrative
Humanity faces critical decisions. The scale of our current economic crisis will soon be overshadowed by the impending environmental crisis in both impacts and costs. Over the past 50 years our current global economic...
Stakeholder Forum – Rio+20 Zero Draft Submission
The total population of the world has just passed seven billion and is continuing to increase. Everywhere people aspire to higher living standards and higher levels of consumption. There is growing concern about the...
UN Secretary General meets with NGOs and welcomes UN DPI NGO Declaration “Chairs Text”
On 26th October 2011 UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon issued a statement in which he welcomed the “Chair’s Text” from the 64th Annual UN DPI NGO Conference held in Bonn in September.
Sustainable Development Proposal for Asia-Pacific
“The Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) Proposal for Rio+20” provides key messages and recommendations for achieving sustainable development based on perspectives and experiences from the Asia-Pacific region, and are delivered as part of...
Recommendations: ICSU-UNESCO RIO+20 Regional Workshop for Africa
The International Council for Science Regional Office for Africa (ICSU ROA) and the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Nairobi Office organised the RIO+20 Regional Workshop for Africa from the 30th of...