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"We the Peoples": The Role of the UN in the 21st Century

MILLENNIUM REPORT
OF THE SECRETARY-GENERAL OF THE
UNITED NATIONS

World Summit on Sustainable Development

WORLD SUMMIT ON
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
Johannesburg, South Africa, 26 August - 4 September 2002

REPORT ON THE PROCESS
A report for individuals and communities interested in summit processes
with particular emphasis on ethical/spiritual issues and NGO collaboration

Comment on the Rio+20 zero draft

On 10 January the UNCSD Rio+20 bureau released the zero draft of the outcome document for Rio+20, "The Future We Want": http://www.uncsd2012.org/rio20/index.php?page=view&type=12&nr=324&menu=23. This draft is based on hundreds of submissions from governments and civil society, including IEF, compiled at http://www.uncsd2012.org/rio20/index.php?menu=115. It will serve as the basis for intergovernmental negotiations leading up to the conference in June, starting in New York on 25-27 January.

Ethical Support to Policy Making

INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENT FORUM* STATEMENT TO THE
UNITED NATIONS CONFERENCE ON SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

ETHICAL SUPPORT TO POLICY-MAKING

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, June 2012


Policy-making today is too often governed by political expediency and the pressures of vested interests. Governments pay lip service to declarations of principles, but seldom consider their relevance to “the real world”. The UN has adopted ethical principles in the UN Charter, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Rio Declaration, Article 3 of the United Nationas Framework Convention on Climate Change (1992) and other instruments, but too often they remain as generalities and their implications are not sufficiently considered in policy and decision-making. Paragraph 6 of the WSSD Plan of Implementation on the importance of ethics for sustainable development requires further action to be effective. Civil society has also completed drafting of the Earth Charter after the failure to agree on a text in Rio in 1992.

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Summary outcomes of Rio+20

For an excellent summary of the outcomes of Rio+20 (the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development in June 2012), see the article by Maria Ivanova "The Contested Legacy of Rio+20" at http://uncsd.iisd.org/guest-articles/the-contested-legacy-of-rio20/.
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UN Sustainable Development Knowledge Platform

The United Nations has created a new web site as its Sustainable Development Knowledge Platform: http://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/index.html. The UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA) website includes resources describing inter-governmental processes, the UN system and major groups as well as resources on sustainable development in action.

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