{"id":677,"date":"2011-08-30T10:54:33","date_gmt":"2011-08-30T10:54:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/2011\/08\/30\/stockholm-2011-www-rio20-statement\/"},"modified":"2011-08-30T10:54:33","modified_gmt":"2011-08-30T10:54:33","slug":"stockholm-2011-www-rio20-statement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/stockholm-2011-www-rio20-statement\/","title":{"rendered":"World Water Week closes with &#8216;Stockholm Statement&#8217; to the Rio+20"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 2011 World Water Week in Stockholm closed today with  assembled participants supporting a &#8220;Stockholm Statement to the 2012  United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development in Rio de Janeiro  (Rio+20 Summit)&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The &#8216;Stockholm Statement&#8217; calls on leadership at all levels of  government that will participate at the Rio+20 Summit (4-6 June 2012) to  commit to achieving &#8220;universal provisioning of safe drinking water,  adequate sanitation and modern energy services by the year 2030&#8221; and to  adopt intervening targets to increase efficiency in the management of  water, energy and food.<\/p>\n<p>The targets include to be achieved by the year 2020:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>20% increase in total food supply-chain efficiency <\/li>\n<li>20% increase in water efficiency in agriculture <\/li>\n<li>20% increase in water use efficiency in energy production <\/li>\n<li>20% increase in the quantity of water reused <\/li>\n<li>20% decrease in water pollution <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The &#8216;Stockholm Statement&#8217; has been supported by UN-Water, the German  Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear  Safety and the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development  and endorsed by a number of international organisations, including:  Conservation International, International Water Management Institute,  IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre, Stakeholder Forum,  Stockholm International Water Institute, Wateraid and Worldwide Fund for  Nature (WWF), among others.<\/p>\n<p>To download the Stockholm Statement on Rio+20 click <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.stakeholderforum.org\/fileadmin\/files\/2011-Stockholmwww-Statement.pdf\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 8pt;\"><em>Article originally publised at <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.worldwaterweek.org\/stockholm-statement-rio20\" rel=\"noopener\">worldwaterweek.org<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2011 World Water Week in Stockholm closed today with assembled participants supporting a &#8220;Stockholm Statement to the 2012 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development in Rio de Janeiro (Rio+20 Summit)&#8221;.<\/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-677","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\/677","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=677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}