{"id":1082,"date":"2012-04-24T17:03:45","date_gmt":"2012-04-24T17:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/2012\/04\/24\/130-world-leaders-confirmed-last-sprint-towards-rio20\/"},"modified":"2012-04-24T17:03:45","modified_gmt":"2012-04-24T17:03:45","slug":"130-world-leaders-confirmed-last-sprint-towards-rio20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/130-world-leaders-confirmed-last-sprint-towards-rio20\/","title":{"rendered":"130 World Leaders Confirmed: Last Sprint towards Rio+20"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Over 130 Heads of State, Vice Presidents, Heads of Government, and deputy Prime Ministers are currently inscribed on the speakers list for the Rio+20 Conference, from 20-22 June.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"> <\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Rio+20 is expected to be a tremendous example of wide-ranging popular participation: over 50,000 people are expected to attend the Conference and numerous side events in Rio de Janeiro, including thousands of business CEOs, parliamentarians, mayors, NGO leaders, academics, senior UN officials, representatives from miscellaneous groups and journalists.&nbsp; <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">As the world engages in the last sprint towards the Rio+20, time is ticking for the negotiations of the Conference&#8217;s Outcome document that will resume from 23 April to 4 May in UN Headquarters in New York. The 19-page &#8220;zero draft&#8221; issued in January was condensed from 6,000 pages of submissions from member states and other stakeholders. A large number of proposals were made by governments during intense negotiations in March. The draft was then significantly expanded, including with suggested alternate language by the Co-Chairs, bringing the text to some 270 pages. The revised draft identified 26 critical areas for action, including: water, energy, food, jobs, cities, oceans, disaster preparedness, poverty eradication, tourism, transport, climate change, sustainable consumption and production, lands, chemicals and forests, among others.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Over  130 Heads of State, Vice Presidents, Heads of Government, and deputy  Prime Ministers are currently inscribed on the speakers list for the  Rio+20 Conference, from 20-22 June.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"> <\/p>\n<hr id=\"system-readmore\" \/>\nRio+20  is expected to be a tremendous example of wide-ranging popular  participation: over 50,000 people are expected to attend the Conference  and numerous side events in Rio de Janeiro, including thousands of  business CEOs, parliamentarians, mayors, NGO leaders, academics, senior  UN officials, representatives from miscellaneous groups and journalists.&nbsp; <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">As  the world engages in the last sprint towards the Rio+20, time is  ticking for the negotiations of the Conference&#8217;s Outcome document that  will resume from 23 April to 4 May in UN Headquarters in New York. The  19-page &#8220;zero draft&#8221; issued in January was condensed from 6,000 pages of  submissions from member states and other stakeholders. A large number  of proposals were made by governments during intense negotiations in  March. The draft was then significantly expanded, including with  suggested alternate language by the Co-Chairs, bringing the text to some  270 pages. The revised draft identified 26 critical areas for action,  including: water, energy, food, jobs, cities, oceans, disaster  preparedness, poverty eradication, tourism, transport, climate change,  sustainable consumption and production, lands, chemicals and forests,  among others.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over 130 Heads of State, Vice Presidents, Heads of Government, and deputy Prime Ministers are currently inscribed on the speakers list for the Rio+20 Conference, from 20-22 June.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1082\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}