{"id":1086,"date":"2012-04-29T17:57:27","date_gmt":"2012-04-29T17:57:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/2012\/04\/29\/building-a-global-network-of-national-councils-for-sustainable-development\/"},"modified":"2012-04-29T17:57:27","modified_gmt":"2012-04-29T17:57:27","slug":"building-a-global-network-of-national-councils-for-sustainable-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/building-a-global-network-of-national-councils-for-sustainable-development\/","title":{"rendered":"Building a Global Network of National Councils for Sustainable Development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Date: <\/strong>April 28, 2012<strong><br \/><\/strong> <strong>Time: <\/strong>10-16:00<br \/><strong>Location: <\/strong>The Church Centre, 777 United Nations Plaza, New York, NY 10017<\/p>\n<p>The  Ministry of the Environment of Finland and Stakeholder Forum, along  with partners, are working together to establish a network through which  NSDCs can share best practice and promote sustainable development  domestically and internationally. The aims of this work are to:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Identify and map existing national sustainable development councils;<\/li>\n<li>Classify each council given its purpose and modality;<\/li>\n<li>Create a library of material from each council;<\/li>\n<li>Build a global network of national councils to engender engagement;<\/li>\n<li>Build capacity through sharing best practice and lessons learnt;<\/li>\n<li>Identify the implementation potential on the themes for&nbsp;Rio+20; the Green Economy and IFSD.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Please join us at a workshop in&nbsp;New York&nbsp;to discuss this work to date:<\/p>\n<p>National  Sustainable Development Councils (NSDCs) and National Strategies for  Sustainable Development (NSSD) were products of Agenda 21. Both were  given new life and support at World Summit on Sustainable Development  (WSSD) in 2002 as integral elements of work on sustainable development,  and countries agreed to have councils and strategies in place by 2005.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>NSDCs  directly link to the themes and objectives of Rio+20. The position of  the national councils allows them to be actively engaged in the  implementation of the&nbsp;<strong>Green Economy<\/strong> and  bring global recommendations on this theme to the national and local  level. As the councils are multi-stakeholder in nature, they may  represent the best of bottom-up approaches and may function as important  vehicles for developing and contributing to good governance at all  levels and thus strengthen&nbsp;<strong>Institutional Framework for Sustainable Development<\/strong> <strong>(IFSD)<\/strong>efforts at national and local level.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The  workshop will entail a presentation of research and analysis done to  date in mapping out the know NSDCs, as well as perspective on NSDCs from  council officials, national governments, the UN and and civil society.  There will also be opportunities to actively engage in the debate.  Speaker include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Ms Annika Lindblom<\/strong> &#8211; Senior Adviser, Ministry of the Environment; Deputy Secretary General, Finland&#8217;sNational Commission on Sustainable Development<\/li>\n<li><strong>Elizabeth Thompson<\/strong> \u2013 Executive Coordinator, Rio+20<\/li>\n<li><strong>Dr. G\u00fcnther<\/strong><strong> Bachmann<\/strong> &#8211; Director, German Council for Sustainable Development<\/li>\n<li><strong>Vladimir Zakharov<\/strong> &#8211; Director of the Institute of Sustainable Development, Civic Chamber of the Russian Federation<\/li>\n<li><strong>Jean-Francois<\/strong> \u2013 Director, European Economic and Social Committee (EESC)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Paula Caballero<\/strong> &#8211; Director for Economic, Social and Environmental Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Government of Colombia<\/li>\n<li><strong>Farooq Ullah<\/strong> \u2013 Head of Policy and Advocacy, Stakeholder Forum<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>\n<p>The workshop&#8217;s full program can be viewed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stakeholderforum.org\/fileadmin\/files\/NCSDs programme.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Please RSVP to:<a href=\"mailto:mreadingsmith@stakeholderforum.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><\/strong><\/a><strong><a href=\"mailto:mreadingsmith@stakeholderforum.org\">mreadingsmith@stakeholderforum.org<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Date: April 28, 2012 Time: 10-16:00Location: The Church Centre, 777 United Nations Plaza, New York, NY 10017 The Ministry of the Environment of Finland and Stakeholder Forum, along with partners, are working together to&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/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":[112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prep-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1086","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=1086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1086\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}