{"id":95,"date":"2009-07-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/2009\/07\/01\/geg-forum-2\/"},"modified":"2009-07-01T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-01T00:00:00","slug":"geg-forum-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/geg-forum-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Stakeholders in the United States meet to discuss the a Rio+20 Earth Summit in 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>July 2009: <\/strong>Meetings were held throughout July in Washington DC to bring together a range of stakeholders to discuss and share ideas on the possible focus of a Rio+20 Earth Summit in 2012. International NGO <a href=\"http:\/\/www.justicesustainability.com\">Justice and Sustainability<\/a> held a meeting on 6<sup>th<\/sup> July, which was followed by a meeting on 7<sup>th<\/sup> July hosted by US-based <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nrdc.org\">Natural Resources Defence Counci<\/a>l.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stakeholder Forum Executive Director Felix Dodds and NRDC Director of International Program, Jacob Sheer, both presented on the need for an Earth Summit in 2012. Jacob Sheer pointed out the \u2018implementation gap\u2019 of international commitments on sustainable development, highlighting the failure to reduce unsustainable consumption and pollution in the industrialised world, as well as inadequate support for international sustainable development institutions and foreign assistance. He presented an Earth Summit in 2012 as an opportunity to address the lack of progress, and boost political will and improve governance to implement commitments.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Felix Dodds outlined discussions and progress towards a possible Earth Summit in 2012 to date, providing an overview of the Donostia Declaration, Brazil\u2019s submission to the UN Secretary General&nbsp; as well as elaborating on some of the possible themes for an Earth Summit \u2013 including sustainable development governance and the green economy. In his presentation, Felix Dodds called for US stakeholders to \u2018start a country-wide conversation on how to create a green economy\u2019.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">View the Presentations by clicking on the links below<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stakeholderforum.org\/fileadmin\/files\/Earth_Summit_2012\/Jacob_Scherr_earth_summit_2012_july_14_2009_meeting.ppt\">Jacob Sheer, Head of International Program, NRDC<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stakeholderforum.org\/fileadmin\/files\/Earth_Summit_2012\/Felix_Dodds_-_Rio_20_presentatiom_July_14_2009_nrdc.ppt\">Felix Dodds, Executive Director, Stakeholder Forum<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July 2009: Meetings were held throughout July in Washington DC to bring together a range of stakeholders to discuss and share ideas on the possible focus of a Rio+20 Earth Summit in 2012. International&#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-95","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\/95","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=95"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}