Founded in 1972, ENDA is an association of autonomous entities co-ordinated by an Executive Secretariat. In general, ENDA works to enhance the visibility and value, in practice as well as theory, of the knowledge...
An International Centre for Learning and Promotion of Democratic Governance. It was founded in 1982, in response to the realisation that grassroots realities across much of India revealed that governments were unable to deliver...
Stakeholder Forum, UN NGLS and other partners, to be announced, will bring together a diversity of stakeholders at a conference to discuss Earth Summit 2012 on 15th May in New York. The conference will...
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...
The Summit brought environment and development issues firmly into the public arena. Along with the Rio Declaration and Agenda 21 it led to agreement on two legally binding conventions: the UN Convention on Biological...
To download this paper click here The 11th session of the UNEP Governing Council will offer Ministers the opportunity to discuss and debate the issue of a Green Economy, building on the fruitful discussions...
To download this paper click here. This paper addresses the following: Outcomes of the consultative group meetings on international environmental governance Recommendations of the Joint Inspection Unit arising out of the management review of...
In the first landmark Declaration issued by ministers of the environment in a decade, governments have welcomed the decision to organised a UN Conference on Sustainable Development in 2012 (UNCSD).
The General Assembly agreed on four thematic areas on whcih to focus the Earth Summit on. These thematic areas will replace the cluster cycles of the 20th CSD cycle which has been suspended and...
“”One of the fundamental prerequisites for the achievement of sustainable development is broad public participation in decision-making” Agenda 21 Chapter 23 Rio ’92 recognised the need to engage a diverse range of stakeholders from...
