Transcript Post Rio+20: Where Do We Stand 21 Months Later Felix Dodds www.felixdodds.net From Rio+20 to a New Development Agenda 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. The run-up to Rio+20 My take.

Post Rio+20: Where Do We
Stand 21 Months Later
Felix Dodds
www.felixdodds.net
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From Rio+20 to a New Development Agenda
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2.
3.
4.
5.
The run-up to Rio+20
My take on the outcome
Where we are now
The challenges
What could be achieved
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The run-up to Rio+20
• Election of President Bush
• 9/11 impacts on the World Summit on
Sustainable Development
• UN Commission on Sustainable Development
failures 2007 and 2011
• President Mbeki's speech (2006)
• President Lula to the rescue (2007)
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From Rio+20 to a New Development Agenda
• Financial crisis 2008 mid September 2008 Lehman
Brothers
• G20 v G192
• G77 tables resolution for Rio+20 (November 4th
2008)
• United Nations Review Conference on Financing for
Development –Qatar starts November 29th 2008
• Conference on the World Financial and Economic
Crisis and its Impact on Development 2009
• Copenhagen Climate Conference (December 2009)
• Rio+20 resolution December 24th 2009
• July 2011 Solo Indonesia – SDGs put on the table
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Where we are now
• The objective of the Conference is to
– secure renewed political commitment for sustainable
development,
– assess the progress to date and the remaining gaps in
the implementation of the outcomes of the major
summits on sustainable development, and address
– new and emerging challenges
• The Conference will focus on two themes
– Green Economy in the context of sustainable
development and poverty eradication
– Institutional Framework for Sustainable Development
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Set up processes for
• Institutional Framework for Sustainable
Development
– High Level Political Forum
– Reform of UNEP
– Intergovernmental Committee of Experts on Sustainable
Development Financing
• Green Economy
• 10-year framework of programmes on sustainable consumption
and production patterns
• taking steps to go beyond gross domestic product to assess the
well-being of a country; - Natural capital accounting
• Sustainable Development Goals
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SDGs---19 focus areas into 8 goals areas?
1. Poverty eradication –
promote equality
2. Gender equality and
women's empowerment,
education, employment
and decent work for all,
health and population
dynamics
3. Water and sanitation,
agriculture, food security
and nutrition
4. Economic growth,
industrialization,
infrastructure, energy
5. Sustainable cities and
human settlements, promote
SCP, Climate
6. Conservation and
sustainable use of marine
resources, oceans and seas,
ecosystems and biodiversity
7. Peaceful and non-violent
societies, rule of law and
capable institutions
8. Means of Implementation,
Global partnership for
sustainable development
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Term
How it is Used in this Report
Goal
Expresses an ambitious, but
specific, commitment. Always
starts with a verb/action.
Target
Quantified sub-components that will contribute in a major way to achievement
of goal. Should be an outcome variable.
Indicator
Precise metric from identified
databases to assess if target
is being met (often multiple
indicators are used).
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Challenges
• Means of Implementations
• Nexus eg water-energy-food-climate
• Financing – beyond traditional resources eg
capital markets – sovereign wealth funds 20
Trillion
• Corporate accountability – report on ESG
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The Integrating Approach
Water
Health
Food security
Inclusive
economic
growth
Increase agricultural productivity by x%,
with a focus on sustainably increasing
smallholder yields and access to
irrigation.
Reduce by x% stunting, wasting
by y% and anemia by z% for
all
Interlinkages: employment, water, food
children under 5. security
Bring freshwater withdrawals in line
Interlinkages: health and
with supply and increase water
food security
efficiency in agriculture by x%,
industry by y% and urban areas by z%.
Interlinkages: Water and food
security
What can be achieved?
• An agreed vision of what we are trying to achieve
• 10 Goals to guide the world to a new form of
development
• Integrated targets that change the way we live on
this planet
• A REAL commitment to the Means of
Implementation to do the work above
• A further reform of governance at all levels
• A Global Partnership for Sustainable
Development
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Einstein
"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of
thinking we used when we created them.”
or
"Two things are infinite: the universe and
human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the
universe.“
Nexus Conference outcome:
https://nexusconference.web.unc.edu/
Blog: http://earthsummit2012.blogspot.com/
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