presentation for webinar for WHO on Rio+20

1. Rio+20 A 10,000-foot Overview
Felix Dodds
Stakeholder Forum

2. How did we What will Rio+20 What Happens
get here? achieve? on Monday?
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3. How did we get here?
Lessons learnt from the last twenty years

4. Rio Outcomes
• Agenda 21
• Rio Declaration
• Forest Principles
• Commission on Sustainable Development
• Stakeholder engagement
• Local Agenda 21 (6000)
• National Councils and Strategies on SD (100)
• 2 conventions: climate and biodiversity

5. 1992-2002
– Desertification Convention (1994)
– Straddling Fish Stocks (1995)
– Prior Informed Consent (1998)
– Persistent Organic Pollutants: POPs,(2001)
– Aid flows fell ($60 billion 92 back up to $60 billion
02)
– New Global Deal (EU/USA 2001)
– 9/11

6. 2003-2012
– Climate talks increasingly gaining public attention
– President Mbeki declares Sustainable
Development dead (2006)
– CSD falls on energy (2007)
– President Lula (2007)
– Copenhagen (2009)
– CSD failure on SCP (2011)

7. What will Rio achieve?
Building a more sustainable, safe, and secure world

8. Agenda for Rio+20
Objectives
– Review of previous commitments
– New Emerging issues
– Renewed political will
And themes
– Green Economy in the context of sustainable
development and poverty eradication
– Institutional Framework for Sustainable Development

9. Review of previous commitments
– Review of Agenda 21 and the Rio Declaration (SF)
• Findings showed there was a huge lack of
implementation
• Successes:
– Arguably the biggest success has come through driving
ambition on what sustainable outcomes are achievable on a
sector by sector basis, e.g. biodiversity.
– Engendered a much stronger notion of participation in
decision-making, e.g. Major Groups.
– Local Agenda 21 has been one of the most extensive follow-
up programmes.

10. A few conclusions from the review
• Need Stronger implementation strategy e.g.
guidelines for implementation
• Lost chapter -> Convention on CSRA
• Longer term thinking in institutions e.g. SD
Council, UN High Commissioner for Future
Generations
• Long term thinking in integrating sustainability
into the global economy e.g. sustainability in
sovereign wealth funds, credit rating agencies,
pension funds
• Needed clear Sustainable Development Goals

11. New Emerging issues
• Food Security
• Water Security
• Climate Security
• Food Security
• Resilience
• Nexus: the inter-linkages between issues
significantly advance the impact of the SD agenda
• Planetary boundaries – social foundation

13. Renewed Political Will
• 2006 President Mbeki – SD dead
• 2009 climate/MEAs dead?
• 2010 CBD agreement, Cancun, CMS agreement
• 2012 Rio+20 120-130 Heads of State (so far)
• 2012 50,000 stakeholders
• Media interest again
• 2013 MDG review, 2014 SIDS and Population
Conference, 2015 MDG new targets, Beijing+20
2016 Habitat III

14. Sustainable Development Goals
• MDGs – just developing countries
• SDGs – universal application
– Water
– Energy
– Oceans and Seas
– Food Security
– Green Cities
– Resilience
– Jobs and skills

15. Green Economy in the Context of
Sustainable Development and Poverty
Eradication
• Agree principles to guide a green economy
• Address sovereign wealth funds - $7 trillion by
2012 – long term funds but no sustainability
criteria. Potentially amend the Santiago principles
• Knowledge Sharing Platform
• Agree to develop and implement new measures
of economic success
• Agree to negotiate a convention on corporate
sustainability – (Lost) Chapter 41 of Agenda 21

17. Energy EU Non Paper
• SD Goal: By 2030 to provide sustainable energy for all.
• Three interlinked Global Targets to be met by 2030:
– Target 1: Achieve universal access to modern energy
services.
– Target 2: Double the rate of improvement in energy
efficiency.
– Target 3: Double the share of Renewable Energy sources in
the global energy mix.

18. A challenge
The parallels of the ecological problems with the
financial crisis are clear.
The banks and financial institutions privatized the
gains and socialized the losses.
We are doing the same with the planet’s natural
capital.
Our present lifestyles are drawing down the
ecological capital from other parts of the world and
from future generations.

19. Institutional Framework for
Sustainable Development Governance
• New sustainable development body
• UNEP reform
• Intergovernmental Panel on sustainable
development
• National, sub-national and local multi-
stakeholder platforms
• Set up an INC for a P10 Convention

20. What else in Rio?
• Three day dialogue on ten themes including
energy, forests
• Peoples’ Forum
• Industry Days
• Local and Regional Government
• Personal Pledge campaign
• Commitments register
• 560 side events
• 50,000 people inspired to make a change

21. What happens on
Monday?
Looking ahead and putting plans into action

22. The beginning not the end!!
• 2012 CBD and UNFCCC
• 2013 MDG review and UNFCCC
• 2014 SIDS and Population Conference, CBD
and UNFCCC
• 2015 MDG new targets, Beijing+20, UNFCCC
2016 Habitat III, CBD and UNFCCC

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