From Rio+20 to a new development agenda : building a bridge to a sustainable future / Felix Dodds, Jorge Laguna-Celis, and Elizabeth Thompson.

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Dodds, Felix

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Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Routledge, 2014.Description: xxii, 240 pages : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:

9780415716543 (pbk.)

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DDC classification:

338.927 DOD 23 005277

Contents:

1.The rebirth of sustainable development -- President Lula da Silva's and Brazil's case for a Rio+20 -- The 2008 crisis as a catalyst for breaking the silos between development and sustainable development -- The old order changes and new players in the developing world emerge -- The science underpinning an integrated approach towards development -- 2. Chronicling the key impacts on Rio+20 -- How Rio+20 was constructed -- The formal preparations process and the lessons to be drawn -- The political role of the UN Secretary-General -- Innovative partnerships supporting Rio+20 -- The informal process in New York and its importance for consensus-building -- International meetings that gave Rio+20 a global impact -- Stakeholders' preparations and their growing influence in the policy definition process -- The transition from the informal and the global to the textual of "The future we want" -- Enabling UN leaders behind Rio+20 -- The Rio+20 Secretariat -- 3. How did it all come to happen? -- The decisions that were required in order to start building a new development framework -- Key divergences as the meeting started -- The group of developing countries : too diverse to negotiate as a single block? -- The European Union and Rio+20 -- The United States of America and Rio+20 -- A final push to conclude the process -- No perfect outcome : the gaps in "The future we want" -- 4. Multiplying commitments -- Introduction -- The stakeholder Dialogue Days -- Voluntary commitments -- National Councils for Sustainable Development and economic and social committees -- Sub-national and local government -- Future Earth -- Education and training -- The World Congress on Justice, Governance and Law for Environmental Sustainability -- Initiatives on transparency and access to information -- Sustainable Energy for All (SE4All) and commitments and achievements on energy at Rio+20 -- Financial commitments -- 5. From Rio+20 to 2015 and the new development agenda -- Was Rio+20 a failure or a success? -- A new, inspiring narrative : development for all within the limits of our planet -- Institutions for a new development agenda -- How can universal Sustainable Development Goals build a single yet differentiated development agenda? -- Resource mobilization and financing for sustainable development -- A reformed Economic and Social Council and the High-Level Political Forum -- The United Nations Environment Assembly and a new governance model for environmental sustainability -- The role of stakeholders in global policy-making -- Ahead of January 2016.

Summary: "Twenty years after the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, "The Earth Summit," in Rio, the Rio+20 conference in 2012 made major progress in refocusing the goals of sustainable development and an agenda for the future. Written by practitioners and participants involved in the multilateral process of negotiations, this book presents a unique insider analysis of not only what happened and why, but also where the outcomes might impact in the future, particularly around the development of a new set of development goals. It is shown that Rio+20 brought life back to sustainable development by putting it at the centre of a future United Nations development framework beyond 2015. It broke new ground on seminal concepts and ideas including the Green Economy, zero tolerance on land degradation, the introduction of Sustainable Development Goals, the creation of national measurements of consumption, production and well-being that are intended to go beyond GDP, the introduction of national green accounting and the commitment of billions of dollars for sustainable development activities, including Sustainable Energy for All. The achievements of Rio+20 are shown to be all the more remarkable because weeks away from the date of the conference no political grouping had any firm agreement on any of the themes or major ideas which were being negotiated. The authors conclude by setting out a new agenda for development, incorporating the challenge in 2015 when the current Millennium Development Goals framework is due to expire"--Summary: "Written by practitioners and participants involved in the multilateral process of negotiations, this book presents a unique insider analysis of not only what happened at the Rio+20 conference in 2012 and why, but also where the outcomes might impact in the future, particularly around the development of a new set of development goals"--

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

1.The rebirth of sustainable development --
President Lula da Silva's and Brazil's case for a Rio+20 --
The 2008 crisis as a catalyst for breaking the silos between development and sustainable development --
The old order changes and new players in the developing world emerge --
The science underpinning an integrated approach towards development --
2. Chronicling the key impacts on Rio+20 --
How Rio+20 was constructed --
The formal preparations process and the lessons to be drawn --
The political role of the UN Secretary-General --
Innovative partnerships supporting Rio+20 --
The informal process in New York and its importance for consensus-building --
International meetings that gave Rio+20 a global impact --
Stakeholders' preparations and their growing influence in the policy definition process --
The transition from the informal and the global to the textual of "The future we want" --
Enabling UN leaders behind Rio+20 --
The Rio+20 Secretariat --
3. How did it all come to happen? --
The decisions that were required in order to start building a new development framework --
Key divergences as the meeting started --
The group of developing countries : too diverse to negotiate as a single block? --
The European Union and Rio+20 --
The United States of America and Rio+20 --
A final push to conclude the process --
No perfect outcome : the gaps in "The future we want" --
4. Multiplying commitments --
Introduction --
The stakeholder Dialogue Days --
Voluntary commitments --
National Councils for Sustainable Development and economic and social committees --
Sub-national and local government --
Future Earth --
Education and training --
The World Congress on Justice, Governance and Law for Environmental Sustainability --
Initiatives on transparency and access to information --
Sustainable Energy for All (SE4All) and commitments and achievements on energy at Rio+20 --
Financial commitments --
5. From Rio+20 to 2015 and the new development agenda --
Was Rio+20 a failure or a success? --
A new, inspiring narrative : development for all within the limits of our planet --
Institutions for a new development agenda --
How can universal Sustainable Development Goals build a single yet differentiated development agenda? --
Resource mobilization and financing for sustainable development --
A reformed Economic and Social Council and the High-Level Political Forum --
The United Nations Environment Assembly and a new governance model for environmental sustainability --
The role of stakeholders in global policy-making --
Ahead of January 2016.

"Twenty years after the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, "The Earth Summit," in Rio, the Rio+20 conference in 2012 made major progress in refocusing the goals of sustainable development and an agenda for the future. Written by practitioners and participants involved in the multilateral process of negotiations, this book presents a unique insider analysis of not only what happened and why, but also where the outcomes might impact in the future, particularly around the development of a new set of development goals. It is shown that Rio+20 brought life back to sustainable development by putting it at the centre of a future United Nations development framework beyond 2015. It broke new ground on seminal concepts and ideas including the Green Economy, zero tolerance on land degradation, the introduction of Sustainable Development Goals, the creation of national measurements of consumption, production and well-being that are intended to go beyond GDP, the introduction of national green accounting and the commitment of billions of dollars for sustainable development activities, including Sustainable Energy for All. The achievements of Rio+20 are shown to be all the more remarkable because weeks away from the date of the conference no political grouping had any firm agreement on any of the themes or major ideas which were being negotiated. The authors conclude by setting out a new agenda for development, incorporating the challenge in 2015 when the current Millennium Development Goals framework is due to expire"--

"Written by practitioners and participants involved in the multilateral process of negotiations, this book presents a unique insider analysis of not only what happened at the Rio+20 conference in 2012 and why, but also where the outcomes might impact in the future, particularly around the development of a new set of development goals"--

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