United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD) - Rio+20: What an effort for such a meager result
Year: 2013
Type: article
Abstract: Looking back 20 years after the "UN Conference on Environment and Development" in Rio de Janeiro and 10 years after the "World Summit on Sustainable Development" in Johannesburg, the world community met again to look at the achievements of the far reaching action programmes from the previous conferences.At this year's "World Summit on Sustainable Development" in Rio (Rio+20) a number of new topics were on the agenda for consultations: The so called "Green Economy" and the development of "Sustainable Development Goals" as political goals.In the institutional arena the upgrading of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) to a United Nations Environment Organisation and a change in the UN--Sustainability Architecture.Originally the Rio+20 summit was not in the long term conference programme of the United Nations.It was the initiative of Brazil with a speech from its the President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva before the UN General Assembly in 2007, which lead one year later, on the basis of an application by the G--77 States, to the decision to hold the UNCSD in Rio in 2012.In contrast to the 2 previous
Authors: H. Vogtmann, Jürgen Maier
Language: English
Subfield: Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
Field: Environmental Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1756063232