This note was prepared as an input to the ongoing discussion on priority issues for Rio+20. It provides an overview of global trends in science and technology1 for sustainable development since the Earth Summit in 1992, and reviews the related UN debate, global commitments and their achievement since. Only four time-bound targets were identified and overall delivery on these and related general technology commitments has not been encouraging.
Key Messages from "Improving the Institutional Framework for Sustainable Deve...uncsd2012
This workshop focused on discussions on promoting transparency, inclusiveness and accountability as
outcomes of Rio 2012. The discussion focused around means to enhance Principle 10 of the 1992 Rio
declaration on access to information, public participation and access to justice, as well as new means to
ensure accountability through public monitoring of commitments.
Planet Under Pressure 2012: State of the Planet Declarationuncsd2012
Scientists issue first “State of the Planet” declaration at the world’s largest gathering of experts on global environmental and social issues in advance of the major UN Summit Rio+20 in June.
This note was prepared as an input to the ongoing discussion on priority issues for Rio+20. It provides an overview of global trends in science and technology1 for sustainable development since the Earth Summit in 1992, and reviews the related UN debate, global commitments and their achievement since. Only four time-bound targets were identified and overall delivery on these and related general technology commitments has not been encouraging.
Key Messages from "Improving the Institutional Framework for Sustainable Deve...uncsd2012
This workshop focused on discussions on promoting transparency, inclusiveness and accountability as
outcomes of Rio 2012. The discussion focused around means to enhance Principle 10 of the 1992 Rio
declaration on access to information, public participation and access to justice, as well as new means to
ensure accountability through public monitoring of commitments.
Planet Under Pressure 2012: State of the Planet Declarationuncsd2012
Scientists issue first “State of the Planet” declaration at the world’s largest gathering of experts on global environmental and social issues in advance of the major UN Summit Rio+20 in June.
How Social Housing relates to the new urban agenda as it is shaped via the SDGs, the COP21 and the Habitat III processes? The presentation presents an overview of these three main processes, relates them to social housing and introduces UNEP's approach to Sustainable Social Housing (SUSHI Initiative)
Presentation on Resilient Cities made at the ICLEI conference on Resilient Cities 2015 held in Bonn, Germany, by Tadashi Matsumoto, Regional Development Policy Division, OECD.
www.oecd.org/gov/regional-policy/
Green growth can be seen as a way to pursue economic growth and development, while preventing environmental degradation, biodiversity loss, and unsustainable natural resource use.
For the short term, green growth can transform the opportunity of the crisis to ensure a more sustainable economic recovery.
For the long term, it will promote new, greener sources of growth.
The OECD is working on policy recommendations to help governments achieve greener growth. The presentation gives an overview of the findings to date and the next steps. It mentions innovation, taxes, jobs and development issues, as well as how to measure progress towards greener growth.
The NSW Government is committed to maintaining a strong
economy, improving the quality of life for the people of NSW
and protecting the environment.
That’s why the NSW Government’s objective is to achieve net zero
emissions by 2050 by creating new jobs, cutting household costs and
attracting investment.
This Net Zero Plan Stage 1: 2020–2030 (Plan) sets out how the NSW
Government will deliver on these objectives over the next decade.
The Plan is focused on the next decade because rapid changes in
technology make identifying the lowest cost path to net zero difficult.
Plans for the second and third decades of the net zero path will be
developed in the lead-up to the 2030s and 2040s respectively.
The purpose of the Plan is to give NSW families and communities
confidence that the challenges posed by climate change can be
solved by improving – not eroding – their prosperity. It will also
send a clear message to local and international investors that New
South Wales is open for business when it comes to delivering on our
economic, social and environmental ambitions.
The Plan is financially supported by a Bilateral Memorandum of
Understanding on Energy and Emissions Reduction Policy between
the Commonwealth and NSW Governments (Bilateral).
The Plan is set out in four parts:
1. A global challenge with local opportunities – the trends and
opportunities arising from global climate change action
2. Progress and projections – progress within New South Wales
to date to reduce emissions and future projections
3. The net zero priorities – the NSW Government’s net zero
priorities
4. Keeping track – the Government’s approach to keeping track
of its progress.
The Case for a Green Resilient RecoveryNigel Topping
As the impact of COVID-19 continues to be felt, non state actors (NSA) including business leaders, investors, and local government leaders globally have (in alignment with the UNSG) been vocal in their support for a Green, Resilient Recovery (GRR) and the opportunity to “build back better” by accelerating the transition to a resilient, zero emissions future.
Many global academic and technical experts have published widely on core principles to underpin a successful recovery, and have outlined emerging evidence on the compelling economic case for GRR, alongside critical co-benefits in public health, decent jobs and enhanced resilience to climate change.
This document seeks to bring together in a single place an analysis published by key members of the NSA community on GRR, with four key objectives:
– Summarize and consolidate key insights, providing a centralised reference point for the broad base of published work to date
– Lay out the definitive economic and social case for GRR, and its implications to climate crisis, as it exists so far
– Highlight sector-specific asks for GRR in the areas of transport, power, buildings, heavy industry and nature
– Provide a view on the policy action and NSA proof points (evolving daily) that demonstrate ongoing commitment from NSA actors to GRR
This paper draws directly upon the exceptional body of work and perspectives to date published by leading organizations, initiatives and partners of the Marrakech Partnership for Global Climate Action, including:
• IMF
• ETC, MPP, WEF
• Smiths School of Economics
• WMB
• PRI
• VividEconomics
• ICP Hub
The situation is evolving at pace, and members of the NSA community are continuing to advance the GRR work and action agenda. In addition to supporting positive action on GRR by policymakers and NSA as part of our broader objectives, these members will:
– Continue to represent and provide a platform for the best thinking of the NSA community in advocating positive response to GRR from policymakers
– Investigate and publish a more detailed business case to reflect the benefits of GRR as an opportunity to accelerate climate action and the transition to a resilient, zero emissions future, to be published in September 2020.
A commitment to provide social protection to all workers, ensuring that all workers and their families are protected against the multiple environmental and economic crises they face. This we call the Social Protection Floor.
How Social Housing relates to the new urban agenda as it is shaped via the SDGs, the COP21 and the Habitat III processes? The presentation presents an overview of these three main processes, relates them to social housing and introduces UNEP's approach to Sustainable Social Housing (SUSHI Initiative)
Presentation on Resilient Cities made at the ICLEI conference on Resilient Cities 2015 held in Bonn, Germany, by Tadashi Matsumoto, Regional Development Policy Division, OECD.
www.oecd.org/gov/regional-policy/
Green growth can be seen as a way to pursue economic growth and development, while preventing environmental degradation, biodiversity loss, and unsustainable natural resource use.
For the short term, green growth can transform the opportunity of the crisis to ensure a more sustainable economic recovery.
For the long term, it will promote new, greener sources of growth.
The OECD is working on policy recommendations to help governments achieve greener growth. The presentation gives an overview of the findings to date and the next steps. It mentions innovation, taxes, jobs and development issues, as well as how to measure progress towards greener growth.
The NSW Government is committed to maintaining a strong
economy, improving the quality of life for the people of NSW
and protecting the environment.
That’s why the NSW Government’s objective is to achieve net zero
emissions by 2050 by creating new jobs, cutting household costs and
attracting investment.
This Net Zero Plan Stage 1: 2020–2030 (Plan) sets out how the NSW
Government will deliver on these objectives over the next decade.
The Plan is focused on the next decade because rapid changes in
technology make identifying the lowest cost path to net zero difficult.
Plans for the second and third decades of the net zero path will be
developed in the lead-up to the 2030s and 2040s respectively.
The purpose of the Plan is to give NSW families and communities
confidence that the challenges posed by climate change can be
solved by improving – not eroding – their prosperity. It will also
send a clear message to local and international investors that New
South Wales is open for business when it comes to delivering on our
economic, social and environmental ambitions.
The Plan is financially supported by a Bilateral Memorandum of
Understanding on Energy and Emissions Reduction Policy between
the Commonwealth and NSW Governments (Bilateral).
The Plan is set out in four parts:
1. A global challenge with local opportunities – the trends and
opportunities arising from global climate change action
2. Progress and projections – progress within New South Wales
to date to reduce emissions and future projections
3. The net zero priorities – the NSW Government’s net zero
priorities
4. Keeping track – the Government’s approach to keeping track
of its progress.
The Case for a Green Resilient RecoveryNigel Topping
As the impact of COVID-19 continues to be felt, non state actors (NSA) including business leaders, investors, and local government leaders globally have (in alignment with the UNSG) been vocal in their support for a Green, Resilient Recovery (GRR) and the opportunity to “build back better” by accelerating the transition to a resilient, zero emissions future.
Many global academic and technical experts have published widely on core principles to underpin a successful recovery, and have outlined emerging evidence on the compelling economic case for GRR, alongside critical co-benefits in public health, decent jobs and enhanced resilience to climate change.
This document seeks to bring together in a single place an analysis published by key members of the NSA community on GRR, with four key objectives:
– Summarize and consolidate key insights, providing a centralised reference point for the broad base of published work to date
– Lay out the definitive economic and social case for GRR, and its implications to climate crisis, as it exists so far
– Highlight sector-specific asks for GRR in the areas of transport, power, buildings, heavy industry and nature
– Provide a view on the policy action and NSA proof points (evolving daily) that demonstrate ongoing commitment from NSA actors to GRR
This paper draws directly upon the exceptional body of work and perspectives to date published by leading organizations, initiatives and partners of the Marrakech Partnership for Global Climate Action, including:
• IMF
• ETC, MPP, WEF
• Smiths School of Economics
• WMB
• PRI
• VividEconomics
• ICP Hub
The situation is evolving at pace, and members of the NSA community are continuing to advance the GRR work and action agenda. In addition to supporting positive action on GRR by policymakers and NSA as part of our broader objectives, these members will:
– Continue to represent and provide a platform for the best thinking of the NSA community in advocating positive response to GRR from policymakers
– Investigate and publish a more detailed business case to reflect the benefits of GRR as an opportunity to accelerate climate action and the transition to a resilient, zero emissions future, to be published in September 2020.
A commitment to provide social protection to all workers, ensuring that all workers and their families are protected against the multiple environmental and economic crises they face. This we call the Social Protection Floor.
The "Joint Messages of Local and Sub-national Governmentsuncsd2012
The 8 recommendations stress the importance of acknowledging the positive role that urbanization plays in development. They advocate for a new multi-level governance that promotes effective partnerships in building sustainable cities and call on members-states to take into account the specific perspective of local and sub-national governments for addressing global challenges.
With the theme “Collaborate, Innovate, Act – Delivering the Green Economy”, the B4E Global Summit 2012 in Berlin set out to define the role of business as innovator and implementer of solutions for a sustainable world and discussed how policies can help to accelerate sustainable development. The Summit working groups gave specific recommendations and commitments from business for the Rio+20 conference that took place in June 2012. The outcome messages from the Berlin Summit were then carried through a global media campaign under the banner ‘Big ideas for a sustainable future’ over the weeks leading up to the 2012 Earth Summit and shared with key decision makers in Rio+.
You are given a task by the mayor of your hometown to evaluate and give suggestion on how to plan the town in accordance with Local Agenda 21. Write a brief report on your evaluation and suggestion.
KKKH4284 URBAN PLANNING OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
TASK 5 : LOCAL AGENDA
LECTURERS :
PROF. IR. DR. RIZA ATIQ ABDULLAH O.K. RAHMAT
DR NAZRI BORHAN
DR NORLIZA MOHD AKHIR
For full coverage of the third prepcom and Rio+20, visit the IISD website at http://www.iisd.ca/uncsd/rio20/
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Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
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Bob Boule
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Gopinath Rebala
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Joint Messages of Local and Sub-national Governments
1. Joint Messages of
Local and Sub-national
Governments
Cities, metropolises, regions and their association contributing to Rio+20
Presented to the UN Secretary General
Conference Room 7, United Nations Headquarters - New-York
23 April 2012
Good urban development is the key to sustainable development.
Urbanization is a driver for economic world growth and development. It is in the cities around the world that
the pressures of globalization, migration, social inequality, environmental pollution and climate change and
youth unemployment are most directly felt. On the other hand they have for centuries been cradle of
innovation and they produce currently above 75 % of the worlds of GDP. We should strive to achieve cities
that are environmentally sustainable, socially responsible and economically productive.
Local and sub-national authorities would like to transmit a sense of urgency: the need to act is now, this calls
for concrete actions and measurable commitments and results.
In consideration of the above, local and sub-national authorities put forward the following
recommendations:
Recommendation 1: A new multi-level governance architecture is needed
We commit to promoting effective partnerships in building sustainable cities, integrating all relevant partners
into plans of action for sustainable urban development at all levels. We should intensify exchange of
experiences and examples from cities, possibly through an e-platform and a global partnership for
sustainable cities, involving multi-stakeholder participation – cities and local governments, civil society,
national governments and the private sector.
We emphasize the importance of citizen participation and the ability of the local community to involve the
many actors including citizens and groups, civil society and the private sector.
As governmental stakeholders, we call on member-states to take into account the specific perspective of
local and sub-national governments deriving from their proximity to citizens in international governance and
to take them into account in any future institutional frameworks for the Sustainable Development Agenda.
This is crucial to sustainability and to the implementation of good governance mechanisms, based on
transparency, participation, equity and accountability.
Recommendation 2: Sustainable Cities should be a crosscutting issue in the Sustainable
Development Agenda. Potential Sustainable Development Goals should include at least one Goal
on “Sustainable Cities for All” and make reference to:
2. A) Access to quality basic services. This is a fundamental responsibility of local and sub-national
governments; they should be empowered with adequate human and financial resources: unfunded
mandates should be avoided.
To improve living conditions in cities, we also need to upgrade basic services such as health,
nutrition, safe potable water, sanitation, and waste management. City leaders should protect and
sustain our natural and built environments, and foster the development of sustainable and efficient
infrastructure through the promotion of sustainable building regulations [codes] and incentives, as
well as the development of sustainable transport, infrastructure solutions and renewable energy
infrastructure that enables access to sustainable energy for all. An integrated approach to
infrastructure planning and provision should be maintained in the urban development process.
B) Social inclusion and equity. This includes gender equality, and the needs of children and youth, and
should be guaranteed through strong and accountable local governments. Only by investing on
human capital and ensuring a more equitable distribution of wealth in particular to reduce national
disparities, will it be possible to achieve a sustainable eradication of poverty and a territory balance
of the development process.
C) Environment. This implies recognizing a legal status for global public goods. The adaptation to
climate change, a disaster risk reduction and a resilience planning are key issues that should receive
increased attention and resources.
We see a need for comprehensive risk management strategies that would ensure greater resilience to
natural disasters due to geologic instability, weather and climate change impacts that can severely
hit cities.
Recommendation 3: Cohesion among territories in development policies should be fostered
As sustainability challenges and responsibilities go beyond political borders, consultation mechanisms,
solidarity among territories and integrated governance frameworks should be promoted in the outcomes of
Rio+20.
Strengthened structural capacities of territories and investments in infrastructures are crucial to poverty
eradication.
National Urban policies designed in full cooperation with sub-national authorities should enable them to
address sustainable urbanisation.
Recommendation 4: Culture should be acknowledged as an important dimension of sustainable
development.
We urge local authorities to use culture as a force for urban regeneration and social inclusion, by
encouraging heritage preservation, fostering creative industries, and recognizing the value-added of cultural
diversity.
We encourage the adoption of information and communication technologies in order to foster smart,
connected cities that provide access to the knowledge economy, enhance public services through e-
government websites.
Recommendation 5: Development of legal mechanisms for local and sub-national governments.
3. Sound rules are needed for local and sub-national authorities to set up good governance and management
systems which will allow them for instance a) to develop modern municipal solid waste management systems
that emphasize the 3Rs – reduce, reuse, recycle b) to enable urban land registration and land use planning
v) to optimize urban management through improved monitoring and intervention.
We commit to implement land policy development and regulatory and procedural reform programmes, if
necessary, so as to achieve sustainable urban development and to better manage climate change impacts,
ensuring that land interventions are anchored within effective land governance frameworks. In this context,
the link between rural and urban societies is of importance. The argument has been made that appropriate
rural policies might be important for the management of the urbanization process.
Recommendation 6: Development of financial mechanisms for local and sub-national
governments.
We call for increased investments in urban infrastructure and call on national and international financial
institutions to develop innovative financing mechanisms to enable improved service delivery including,
among others: i) sustainable transport options and services management, particularly mass transit and non-
motorized transport; ii) water supply networks and waste water treatment facilities;
Recommendation 7: Local and sub-national governments as hubs of green growth
A structurally and qualitatively different type of economic growth is needed. Incentives should direct growth
towards more resource-productive, resilient, low-carbon and low risk urban infrastructure, and renewed
urban design. A global Green Economy needs to comprise inclusive Green Urban Economies, and empower
Local and sub-national Governments.
Recommendation 8: The Rio+20 Conference should be considered as the first step towards
Habitat III which focus will be on the global commitment to reinvigorate the urban agenda.
We commit to develop national urban policies, defined in full cooperation with local and sub-national
authorities, integrating efforts across spheres of governments to support a holistic, integrated and multilevel
governance approach to urban design and development that empowers local and sub-national governments,
paying special attention to the unique and critical challenges of metropolitan areas.
We call upon all states to prioritize sustainable urban development through increased investment in and
attention to urban design, urban legislation, economy and governance.