Date: 5-14 December
Host: UNITAR
Where: Online
Focus: Participants will learn about the current institutional architecture concerned with sustainable development, emerging policy issues requiring an effective institutional response, and political challenges to advance reform as reflected in the negotiations leading up to, and during Rio+20.
Date: Tuesday June 5
Time: 10:00-11:00 AM EST
Location: Online
Focus: What does Rio+20 need to deliver to create a sustainable world?
Webchat with the World Bank's Vice President of Sustainable Development, Rachel Kyte
Date: 22 June 2012
Focus: to build capacity and expertise on how to develop a post-Rio+20 work plan of implementation.
Date: Saturday 14 July 2012
Time: 10:00-18:00 GMT
Location: London, Institute of Education
Focus: To bring together UN experts, policy-makers and opinion-shapers with a wide cross-section of the public to discuss peace and security, human rights, development and environmental issues.
Date: June 15
Location: RioCentro T-2, Rio de Janeiro
Time: 13:30-15:00
Focus: How to incorportate biodiversity into the sustainable development goals
Date: Thursday, May 24
Time: 7pm GMT
Where: Online
Focus: One hour panel discussion on the Rio+20 themes lead by UNEP and Stakeholder Forum
Date: Today (June 14th)
Time: 13:00 – 14:45
Where: UNEP Pavilion, Athletes Park, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Focus: Green economy innovation: A look at case studies from Asia and the Pacific.
Note: Please take a shuttle bus from Rio Centro Convention Center to the Athlete Park for 5 minutes.
When: 13 June 2012
Time: 15:30pm—17:00pm
Location: T-6 RioCentro (Rio de Janerio, Brazil)
Focus: The Bahá'í International Community invites you to a participatory discussion to explore perspectives on the elimination of extremes of wealth and poverty in the context of the green economy and sustainable development.
Date: Wednesday, 16 May 2012
Time: 10 am EDT
Location: On the internet around the world, available here
Focus: Review the history of sustainable development governance;
Prepared by the UN Non-Governmental Liaison Service in Cooperation with Practical Action
Organized by Practical Action, Christian Aid and ONE, this consultation meeting brought together six members of the UN Secretary-General's High-level Group on Sustainable Energy for All and representatives from 31 civil society organizations and academic institutions from across the UK and Europe to exchange views on the Secretary-General's Sustainable Energy for All Initiative (SE4ALL). A list of the civil society organizations and academic institutions that participated is available here. The two-hour meeting occurred in London on the margins of the 24 April meeting of Principal Members of the High-level Group, as well as the 25-26 April Clean Energy Ministerial.
When: Tuesday, June, 19, 2012
Time: 8:30-5:30
Where: Fundacao Getulio Vargas Praia de Botafogo, 190Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Focus: Highlight governance commitments from around the world, develop an agenda of good governance reforms for the coming decade and advance ideas on how to build legal frameworks at the national, regional and international levels to implement Principle 10