One Earth

The first prepcom for Rio+20 has finished and has given people much food for thought. The Summit will need to have some time to discuss the key issues: review of commitments, sustainable development governance, green economy and emerging issues.

On review of commitments there needs to be a list of those commitments taken from 1992 to now and where we are on implementing them. As we heard no country has delivered on the biodiversity target for this year. This follows a list of many others but we need to know where we are before new commitments are made.

On suustainable development governance -- there needs work on the global level reform of the CSD, financial instituions to mainstream sustainable development governace and maybe two conventions on corporate accountability and principle 10 of the Rio Declaration. Green Economy needs a strong social pillar and some principles and emerging issues is starting to focus on the environment and security agenda.

A lot to address in now 14 days of negotiations -- the addtion of 6 days by this prepcom will be a first stage expect more additions in future prepcoms.

Aril issue of MEA Bulletin article on Rio+20p

The April issue of MEA Bulletin has a guest article by Felix Dodds on Rio+20.

Stakeholder Forum and UN NGls to host Rio+20 Conference in New York on the 15th of May just before the first preparatory meeting. It will cover

• One Planet Living: Green economy in the context of sustainable development and poverty eradication
• Emerging Issues
• Scenarios for 2032
• Sustainable Development Governance
• Role of Stakeholders

Register through Hannah Stoddart at hstoddart (at) stakeholderforum.org

Revamped 2012 Web site launched

To help people and organizations keep abreast of 2012 developments the web site has undergone a transformation have a look at it click here.