{"id":335,"date":"2010-11-03T17:23:58","date_gmt":"2010-11-03T17:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/2010\/11\/03\/es-forum-dc-161110\/"},"modified":"2010-11-03T17:23:58","modified_gmt":"2010-11-03T17:23:58","slug":"es-forum-dc-161110","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/es-forum-dc-161110\/","title":{"rendered":"Earth Summit 2012 Forum , Washington D.C 16th November"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Natural Resources Defense Council, United Nations Foundations and Worldwatch Institute are hosting the Earth Summit 2012 Forum on Tuesday, 16 November, in Washington D.C.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The event is for key UN, governmental and non-governmental representatives to discuss prospects for the &#8220;Rio+20&#8221; Summit, with a particular focus on one of the conference&#8217;s major themes \u2013 the green economy. The forum will be an opportunity to help shape what could be a turning point in addressing progress on the critical sustainability challenges we face.<\/p>\n<p>Speakers include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Rick Barton<\/strong> &#8211; U.S Representative to the Economic and Social Council of the UN<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Van Jones<\/strong> &#8211; Senior Felow, Center for American Progress<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Brice Lalonde<\/strong> &#8211; Ambassador for Climate Change, France<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Janos Pasztor<\/strong> &#8211; Designated Head, UN Global Sustainability Panel Secretariat<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Timothy E. Wirth<\/strong> &#8211; President, United Nations Foundations<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>RSVP to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"mailto:rsimon@worldwatch.org\" rel=\"noopener\">rsimon@worldwatch.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nrdc.org\/\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-332\" alt=\"nrdc\" src=\"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/nrdc.gif\" width=\"132\" height=\"123\" \/><\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.unfoundation.org\/\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-333\" alt=\"UN_Foundation_logo1\" src=\"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/UN_Foundation_logo1.jpg\" width=\"241\" height=\"57\" srcset=\"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/UN_Foundation_logo1.jpg 932w, https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/UN_Foundation_logo1-300x71.jpg 300w, https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/UN_Foundation_logo1-768x183.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 241px) 100vw, 241px\" \/><\/a> &nbsp; &nbsp; <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.worldwatch.org\/\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-334\" alt=\"wwi\" src=\"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/wwi.jpg\" width=\"159\" height=\"54\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Natural Resources Defense Council, United Nations Foundations and Worldwatch Institute are hosting the Earth Summit 2012 Forum on Tuesday, 16 November, in Washington D.C.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":332,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-workshops-meetings-events"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/nrdc.gif","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335","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=335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}