United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development

The United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development ( United Nations Conference on English Sustainable Development, short UNCSD ) was held from 20 to 22 June 2012 in Rio de Janeiro instead. Short as Rio in 2012 called, or on the 1992 carried out the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development called in allusion Rio 20, the UNCSD should achieve the following three objectives:

  • Securing renewed political commitment for sustainable development
  • Progress measurement and ongoing problems in the implementation of already agreed policy objectives
  • Addressing new and emerging challenges.

Thematically should be on the UNCSD two main challenges:

  • The green economy in the context of sustainable development and poverty reduction
  • The institutional framework for sustainable development.

The conference was attended by around 190 countries.

Decision and preparation process

The United Nations General Assembly met the decision to hold the Rio 20 Conference, at a meeting on December 24, 2009. Ahead of UNCSD, a total of three sessions of a Preparatory Committee ( Preparatory Committee, in short PrepCom ) be held to thematic and organizational to clarify questions. PrepCom 1 ran from 16 to 18 May 2010, and PrepCom 2 took place from 28 February to 4 March 2011. PrepCom 3 was held from 13 to 15 June 2012 and immediately in front of the conference. In addition found between the meetings of the Preparatory Committee held informal so-called intersessionals on which the delegates had the opportunity to exchange their positions and to approach content.

Other preparations

Germany

From 9 to March 11, 2012 65 carriers of awards met in Freiburg im Breisgau on the environmental front a conference organized by the European Environment Foundation meeting. In their final paper Call for Action calling for rapid and concrete progress to limit global warming and promote sustainable development in emerging and developing countries. Governments should promote as " change agents " social innovations; among others, should one percent of global gross domestic product ( GDP), which is about 600 billion dollars will be invested to maintain or restore natural resources.

Outcome of the Rio 20 Conference

In the unanimously adopted by the participants Final Declaration of the UNCSD, matches the text with the developed before the conference negotiations draft, the commitment is expressed both on sustainable business management as well as the model of the Green Economy, common goals in the fight against hunger, poverty, soil erosion, climate change and its consequences formulated and reiterated the Millennium Development Goals for 2015 and the results of previous environmental summit. In the final declaration, no binding agreements for the implementation of the stated goals are included, so that non-governmental organizations and representatives of civil society explain the negotiations failed.

History of UN environmental and sustainability conferences

The UNCSD is the fourth major UN conference on environment and sustainable development:

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