Rio+20 A 10,000-foot Overview

Felix DoddsStakeholder Forum

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1How did we get here?

2 3What Happens

on Monday?What will Rio+20 achieve?

How did we get here?

Lessons learnt from the last twenty years

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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

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

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)

2 What will Rio achieve?

Building a more sustainable, safe, and secure world

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Agenda for Rio+20

Objectives– Review of previous commitments– New Emerging issues– Renewed political willAnd themes– Green Economy in the context of sustainable

development and poverty eradication– Institutional Framework for Sustainable Development

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.

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

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

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

Sustainable Development Goals

• MDGs – just developing countries• SDGs – universal application

– Water– Energy– Oceans and Seas– Food Security– Green Cities– Resilience– Jobs and skills

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

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.

A challengeThe 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.

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

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

3 What happens on Monday?

Looking ahead and putting plans into action

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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