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Eurostep Vision for a Common EU Position towards Rio2012
In a letter sent to relevant EU representatives ahead of the informal meeting of Environment ministers on 18 and 19 April in Denmark and the second round of informal negotations for Rio+20 in N.Y., Eurostep in collaboration with ANND, Social Watch, Third World Network and ALOP call on the EU not to shy away from its commitments to human rights, equity and sustainable development.
On 9 March 2012 the Environment Council adopted new Conclusions on Rio+20, a brief Eurostep analysis of these Conclusions is available here.
Following the release of the Zero Draft to the UNCSD Conference (Rio2012), Eurostep has published its Full Response to the document as well as Key Recommendations.
On October 31st 2011 Eurostep sent its Contribution to the Zero Draft of the outcome Document for Rio2012.
Please also read the Eurostep Response to the Council's Conclusions (10 October 2011) and the Joint Political Recommendations for a common EU position towards Rio+20 in collaboration with Social Watch, ANND and Third World Network here.
Read our section on Rio+20 or the latest articles concerning Rio+20 in the Eurostep Weekly.
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In preparation for the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20) on 20-22 June 2012, the latest round of “informal informal negotiations” on the draft outcome document was characterised by significant tensions between developed and developing countries. Participants expressed diverging views particularly on the concept of green economy, the introduction of so called Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and to what extent weak implementation of previously agreed goals should be acknowledged in the outcome document.
Ahead of the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20) to be held in Rio de Janeiro, from 20-22 June 2012, the importance of reforming the current global economic governance system as a means of adhering to internationally agreed sustainable development principles has increasingly come to the fore. Civil society activists have called on the Rio+20 participants to address the influence of the business sector on sustainable development issues, with unchecked corporate interests believed to significantly undermine the right to development and other fundamental human rights of poor people.
With only three years left until the 2015 deadline for the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), discussion on the future development framework have begun but are raising more questions than answers so far. In light of the upcoming UN Conference on Sustainable Development, the central discussion is on how to reconcile the intended process towards a post-2015 framework with the social, environmental and economic aspects of sustainable development being discussed ahead of Rio+20.
According to the new Global Outlook Report, published by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the European Commission (EC), the shift towards sustainable consumption and production patterns is an indispensable precondition if a global sustainable development agenda is to be successfully implemented. Whereas the rhetoric on such patterns has been flourishing in recent times, these remain to be actively applied to existing policy frameworks, the report says.
