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UN Reports & Resources

Latest publications & communications (Nov 2011/Jan 2012). Recommendations of the Global Sustainability Panel, zero draft of outcomes by the UNCSD, webinar on participation process.

The report of the Global Sustainability Panel contains a 'Call for action' and the following vision paragraph:

"The need to integrate the economic, social and environmental dimensions of development so as to achieve sustainability was clearly defined a quarter of a century ago. It is time to make it happen. The opportunities for change are vast. We are not passive, helpless victims of the impersonal, determinist forces of history. And the exciting thing is that we can choose our future."

We are in the heart of our subject. Now is the time to collate the positive in this thread and join our voice to the voice of others to get things to move at Rio and get the conversations and actions going beyond that.

The themes of focus of Rio 20+ are the following:
.1. Green economy in the context of sustainable development and poverty eradication
.2. Institutional framework for sustainable development
.3. Seven critical issues:
.Jobs
.Energy
.Cities
.Food
.Water
.Oceans
.Disasters

The major organizations including the states have presented proposals that have been compiled and made searchable here: http://www.uncsd2012.org/rio20/index.php?menu=115 there are many themes listed here.

This consultation has led to a Zero draft of outcomes for Rio that I recommend reading: http://www.uncsd2012.org/rio20/index.php?page=view&type=12&nr=324&menu=23 and position ourselves in regard to a possible output of our discussions, as the stakeholders and civil society are invited to refine this draft and to make further suggestions on their implementation.

Here is the recap of what is under way all aimed at fostering the engagement of civil society in the outcomes of Rio+20.

.1) The report from the Un Global Sustainability Panel appointed end of 2010 and mentioned in the original UN call referred to in my question by the Secretary general to which I linked a couple of days ago: http://www.un.org/gsp/

.2) A Future We Want initiative announced on November 22 for people to share their visions of the future first by posting short stories, then in a wider crowdsourcing operation announced initially for February but which has disappeared from the dedicated website. Those with which I have been in contact to know a bit more -with no response to date which is understandable considering the activity around all this that has been going on in the past week: http://www.futurewewant.org/

.3) A wide consultation of major stakeholder groups by the UN Conference on Sustainable Development that has generated a compilation document and a zero draft of an outcome document published around two weeks ago: http://www.uncsd2012.org/rio20/ The draft document comes under a heading of The Future We Want. The site provides possibilities for sharing messages and pictures, as well as proposals of input to the draft. See below.

.4) There has been a webinar on Tuesday from the World Federation of UN Associations that I have referred to a while. The role of the webinar was to give an idea on how to bring more input through organized groups into the zero draft framework referred to above. An interesting watch: http://www.wfuna.org/sustainable-development

I suspect that The crowdsourcing initiative of the Future we want as I described it in 2. will allow members of civil society to provide input independently from major groups.

The webinar explains quite well how we can alternatively submit further modifications and proposals through the existing feedback process.

The themes and issues are exposed here: http://www.uncsd2012.org/rio20/objectiveandthemes.html
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