United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development
The United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development ( English United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development , in short UNCSD ) was held from 20 to 22 June, 2012. Rio de Janeiro instead. Briefly referred to as Rio 2012 , or in reference to the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development also called Rio + 20 , the UNCSD should achieve the following three goals:
- Ensure renewed political commitment to sustainable development
- Recording of progress and persistent problems in implementing goals that have already been decided
- Addressing new and emerging challenges.
The UNCSD should focus on two topics:
- the green economy in the context of sustainable development and poverty reduction
- the institutional framework for sustainable development.
Around 190 countries took part in the conference.
Decision and preparation process
The General Assembly of the United Nations made the decision to hold the Rio + 20 conference at a meeting on December 24, 2009. In the run-up to the UNCSD, a total of three meetings of a Preparatory Committee ( PrepCom ) will be held to deal with thematic and organizational Questions to clarify. PrepCom 1 ran from May 16-18, 2010, and PrepCom 2 ran from February 28 to March 4, 2011. PrepCom 3 was held from June 13-15, 2012, just before the conference. In addition, informal so-called intersessionals took place between the meetings of the preparatory committee , at which the delegates had the opportunity to exchange their positions and to approach each other in terms of content.
Further preparations
Germany
From March 9 to 11, 2012, 65 environmental award winners met in Freiburg im Breisgau at the first Freiburg environmental convention organized by the European Environmental Foundation . In their final paper, Call for Action , they called for rapid and concrete progress to limit global warming and promote sustainable developments in emerging and developing countries . Governments, as “pioneers of change”, should drive social renewal; Among other things, one percent of the global gross domestic product (GDP), which was around 600 billion US dollars at the time, was to be invested in the maintenance or restoration of natural resources.
Result of the Rio + 20 conference
In the final declaration of the UNCSD, unanimously adopted by the participants, the text of which corresponds to the draft developed before the conference negotiations, the commitment to both sustainable management and the model of the green economy is expressed, common goals in the fight against hunger, poverty, soil erosion , formulated climate change and its consequences and affirmed the Millennium Development Goals for 2015 and the results of previous environmental summits. The final declaration does not contain any binding agreements for the implementation of the stated goals, so that non-governmental organizations and representatives of civil society declare the negotiations to have failed.
History of the UN Environment and Sustainability Conferences
The UNCSD is the fourth major UN conference in the field of environment and sustainable development:
- 1972 was held in Stockholm , the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment (UNCHE) exhibition, where, among other things, the environmental program of the United Nations was founded.
- In 1992, the community held in Rio de Janeiro , the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development from (UNCED), inter alia, the adoption of Agenda 21 , and a political agreement on three major international environmental agreements brought.
- In 2002 the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) was held in Johannesburg .
Web links
- UNCSD 2012 - Official website of the United Nations
- Final declaration of Rio + 20
- Final declaration of Rio + 20: The Future we want , The future that we want
- Earth Summit 2012 - Info page of the Stakeholder Forum
- Online learning archive for the conference at the Hessian education server
- Educational magazine "Global Learning" on the topic of "World Conference Rio + 20" (PDF; 2.9 MB)
- Videos, photos and information about the conference in Brazil (English, Spanish and Portuguese)
Individual evidence
- ^ Badische-zeitung.de , Nachrichten, Wirtschaft , March 10, 2012: Petra Völzing: The long way to Rio (March 10, 2012)
- ↑ badische-zeitung.de , Nachrichten, Wirtschaft , March 13, 2012, Petra Völzing: Environmental experts call for money and reforms (March 25, 2012)
- ^ Final declaration of Rio + 20