{"id":717,"date":"2011-09-20T17:36:42","date_gmt":"2011-09-20T17:36:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/2011\/09\/20\/green-economy-coalition-outlines-policy-thinking-for-rio20\/"},"modified":"2011-09-20T17:36:42","modified_gmt":"2011-09-20T17:36:42","slug":"green-economy-coalition-outlines-policy-thinking-for-rio20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/green-economy-coalition-outlines-policy-thinking-for-rio20\/","title":{"rendered":"Green Economy Coalition Outlines Policy Thinking for Rio+20"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">The Green Economy Coalition (GEC) has presented its initial policy thinking for the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD, or Rio+20). The GEC is a grouping of NGOs, research institutes, UN organizations and trade unions working to accelerate the transition to a green economy while ensuring that stakeholders&#8217; voices are incorporated in the process.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>GEC shared its views on a range of policy suggestions in anticipation of the UNCSD, including: public procurement contracts and the need to include specifications for labor and environmental sustainability standards; generating new funds through a financial transaction tax, with such funds being earmarked for environmental goods and services, social protection, poverty eradication and climate change mitigation and adaptation; recognition of the monetary value of ecosystem services within their national accounting systems; developing ways of measuring national welfare, going beyond Gross Domestic Product (GDP); and catalysing a transformation in the poorest countries.<\/p>\n<p><em>original article published at<a href=\"http:\/\/www.uncsd2012.org\/rio20\/index.php?page=view&amp;nr=312&amp;type=230&amp;menu=38\"> www.uncsd2012.org<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Green Economy Coalition (GEC) has presented its initial policy thinking for the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD, or Rio+20). The GEC is a grouping of NGOs, research institutes, UN organizations and trade&#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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-717","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\/717","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=717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}