This document provides information about the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20) happening in 2012. It discusses proposals for Sustainable Development Goals to commit stakeholders to achieving sustainability targets, similar to the Millennium Development Goals. Major groups are finding ways to scale up their initiatives and participate in the Rio+20 process. Upcoming events related to Rio+20 preparation are also listed.
DESA News is an insider’s look at the United Nations in the area of economic and social development policy. The newsletter is produced by the Communications and Information Management Service of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs in collaboration with DESA Divisions. DESA News is issued every month.
Voluntary commitments and partnerships for sustainable development are multi-stakeholder initiatives voluntarily undertaken by Governments, intergovernmental organizations, major groups and others that aim to contribute to the implementation of intergovernmentally agreed sustainable development goals and commitments in the Rio+20 outcome document “The Future We Want”, Agenda 21, the Programme for the Further Implementation of Agenda 21 or the Johannesburg Plan of Implementation of the World Summit on Sustainable Development.
The present report aims to synthesize current information on the 1,382 voluntary commitments, partnerships, initiatives and networks for sustainable development that have been registered to date with the Secretariat of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20), the Sustainable Energy for All Initiative (SE4All), United Nations Global Compact, Every Woman Every Child, the Higher Education Sustainability Initiative, the Sustainable Transport Action Network, and other similar initiatives.
DESA News is an insider's look at the United Nations in the area of economic and social development policy. The newsletter is produced by the Communications and Information Management Service of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs in collaboration with DESA Divisions. DESA News is issued every month.
Global dialogue on development: UNFF Forest Film Festival wins European Film Award, General Assembly highlights MDGs and the development agenda beyond 2015
Trends and analysis: Confronting family poverty and social exclusion, Reviewing responses to global job crisis, Principles and recommendations on Vital Statistics System
Capacity development: Platform for exchange of census data experience, Institutionalizing water accounts and statistics, Analyzing mortality, housing and the situation of the elderly in Ethiopia
DESA News is an insider’s look at the United Nations in the area of economic and social development policy. The newsletter is produced by the Communications and Information Management Service of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs in collaboration with DESA Divisions. DESA News is issued every month.
Voluntary commitments and partnerships for sustainable development are multi-stakeholder initiatives voluntarily undertaken by Governments, intergovernmental organizations, major groups and others that aim to contribute to the implementation of intergovernmentally agreed sustainable development goals and commitments in the Rio+20 outcome document “The Future We Want”, Agenda 21, the Programme for the Further Implementation of Agenda 21 or the Johannesburg Plan of Implementation of the World Summit on Sustainable Development.
The present report aims to synthesize current information on the 1,382 voluntary commitments, partnerships, initiatives and networks for sustainable development that have been registered to date with the Secretariat of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20), the Sustainable Energy for All Initiative (SE4All), United Nations Global Compact, Every Woman Every Child, the Higher Education Sustainability Initiative, the Sustainable Transport Action Network, and other similar initiatives.
DESA News is an insider's look at the United Nations in the area of economic and social development policy. The newsletter is produced by the Communications and Information Management Service of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs in collaboration with DESA Divisions. DESA News is issued every month.
Global dialogue on development: UNFF Forest Film Festival wins European Film Award, General Assembly highlights MDGs and the development agenda beyond 2015
Trends and analysis: Confronting family poverty and social exclusion, Reviewing responses to global job crisis, Principles and recommendations on Vital Statistics System
Capacity development: Platform for exchange of census data experience, Institutionalizing water accounts and statistics, Analyzing mortality, housing and the situation of the elderly in Ethiopia
In its second report, "A renewed global partnership for development," the UN System Task Team on the Post-2015 UN Development looks at the possible features for the global partnership for development in the post-2015 era. Building on a review of the current global partnership for development, as crystallized in Millennium Development Goal 8, the report provides recommendations on potential dimensions and contours of a renewed global partnership for development. In addition the report also provides some suggestions for a robust mutual accountability system.
For more information:
http://www.un.org/en/development/desa/policy/untaskteam_undf/report2.shtml
While Model UN and Model G20 share similarities, there are also significant differences between the two programs. Not only is MG20 unique to Model UN, but it also offers experiences that are more value-driven and relevant.
In its second report, "A renewed global partnership for development," the UN System Task Team on the Post-2015 UN Development looks at the possible features for the global partnership for development in the post-2015 era. Building on a review of the current global partnership for development, as crystallized in Millennium Development Goal 8, the report provides recommendations on potential dimensions and contours of a renewed global partnership for development. In addition the report also provides some suggestions for a robust mutual accountability system.
For more information:
http://www.un.org/en/development/desa/policy/untaskteam_undf/report2.shtml
While Model UN and Model G20 share similarities, there are also significant differences between the two programs. Not only is MG20 unique to Model UN, but it also offers experiences that are more value-driven and relevant.
Today, 54 per cent of the world’s population lives in urban areas, a proportion that is expected to increase to 66 per cent by 2050. Projections show that urbanization combined with the overall growth of the world’s population could add another 2.5 billion people to urban populations by 2050, with close to 90 percent of the increase concentrated in Asia and Africa, according to a new United Nations report launched on 10 July 2014.
Part I: Our Future is Worth It: How YOUth can take ACTION for Sustainable Dev...EOTO World
Part I of a Rio+20 Toolkit Series designed for youth to learn about sustainable development and to become aware of Rio+20. This toolkit is made in collaboration with Earth Charter International and the UN CSD Major Group for Children and Youth.
The Financing for development program’s main objective is to familiarize more people with the new development agenda, the critical role of the private sector and the use of finance, including innovative solutions, to fund the SDGs and meet the Bank Group goals of ending poverty and boosting shared prosperity by 2030. It also deals with the terminologies, key concepts, sources of development finance, public, private and commercial, and multilateral, and the need for increased use of ODA and innovative financing solutions to mobilize and leverage domestic and official development resources alongside private funds.
DESA News is an insider's look at the United Nations in the area of economic and social development policy. The newsletter is produced by the Communications and Information Management Service of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs in collaboration with DESA Divisions. DESA News is issued every month.
For more information: http://www.un.org/en/development/desa/newsletter/desanews/index.html
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.
Hi, friends, a bit of our investment relations in 2021, while the world economy was falling with the covid illness and economic restrict. However, the Business Innovation Research Development was able to set sail in tidal and surge risk environmentally. We kept our investment to a level of self-empowerment in the agenda for action 2030.
Thanks, friends for your cooperation in the poverty reduction in 2021, with an eye on the future with this sustainable development indicators that we have designed in 2015
Future of Trade The Emerging View - 16 11 15Future Agenda
After multiple discussions around the world, this is an emerging view on the future of trade being shared for further comment and feedback. Hosted by DMCC (The Dubai Government) this included workshops in London, Hong Kong, Cape Town, Mumbai and Dubai that have explored key drivers of change. Other events elsewhere have added in additional perspectives.
CSR Collaboration Lab - Partnering on Best Case Practices, Procceding Beyond ...GlobalHunt Foundation
GlobalHunt Foundation has conducted such CSR Collaboration Hub among leading businesses and among diverse stakeholders. The outcome report is a compliation of the proceedings that took place in partnerships with Hindustan Power Projects Limited and the MoserBaer Trus. It encourages a match making platform wherein as a respective stakeholder receives an opportunity to review another’s ongoing or upcoming CSR initiatives and through mutual channels of communication. One of the highlighting aspects of the hub is to seek those areas of interventions that remain unexplored and require immediate attention. The hub are beyond the capacity of an event or a programme, but were conducted
in project series and received active engagement from diverse stakeholders. The main objective is to bring together business leaders, technology solution providers, civil society organizations, sustainability experts to form key collaborations and develop key projects which can be implemented within their respective zones. The other dimension of the hub was focused on imparting essential learnings to the personnel on the upcoming developments in the realm of sustainability and more so encourage an environment of sharing cross sector experiences, challenges and to align the principles of sustainable practices within their operational frameworks.
Similar to Rio +20 - Newsletter: Volume 2, issue 18 (30 september 2011) (20)
Millions of people’s lives have improved due to concerted global, regional, national and local efforts to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which serve as the foundation for the next global development agenda, according to the report launched by the Secretary-General on 7 July 2014.
For more information:
http://www.un.org/en/development/desa/publications/mdg-report-2014.html#more-873
DESA News is an insider's look at the United Nations in the area of economic and social development policy. The newsletter is produced by the Communications and Information Management Service of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs in collaboration with DESA Divisions. DESA News is issued every month.
For more information:
http://www.un.org/en/development/desa/newsletter/desanews/2014/08.html
DESA News is an insider's look at the United Nations in the area of economic and social development policy. The newsletter is produced by the Communications and Information Management Service of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs in collaboration with DESA Divisions. DESA News is issued every month.
For more information:
http://www.un.org/en/development/desa/newsletter/desanews/2014/07.html
DESA News is an insider's look at the United Nations in the area of economic and social development policy. The newsletter is produced by the Communications and Information Management Service of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs in collaboration with DESA Divisions. DESA News is issued every month.
For more information:
http://www.un.org/en/development/desa/newsletter/desanews/2014/06.html
DESA News is an insider's look at the United Nations in the area of economic and social development policy. The newsletter is produced by the Communications and Information Management Service of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs in collaboration with DESA Divisions. DESA News is issued every month.
For more information:
http://www.un.org/en/development/desa/newsletter/desanews/2014/05.html
DESA News is an insider's look at the United Nations in the area of economic and social development policy. The newsletter is produced by the Communications and Information Management Service of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs in collaboration with DESA Divisions. DESA News is issued every month.
For more information:
http://www.un.org/en/development/desa/newsletter/desanews/2014/04.html
DESA News is an insider's look at the United Nations in the area of economic and social development policy. The newsletter is produced by the Communications and Information Management Service of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs in collaboration with DESA Divisions. DESA News is issued every month.
For more information:
http://www.un.org/en/development/desa/newsletter/desanews/2014/03.html
E-government—digital interactions between governments and people—varies greatly among and within regions, but most countries are making progress on providing greater access, according to the 2014 UN E-Government Survey launched today. The findings show that the Republic of Korea tops the global e-government ranking, and that Europe remains first among regions.
The report also shows that many countries are expanding electronic participation, utilizing more mobile and social media tools, expanding usage and making more government data available online. However, challenges remain, such as lack of resources, digital inequalities and a lack of leadership for e-government.
“E-government holds tremendous potential to improve the way that governments deliver public services and enhance broad stakeholder involvement in public service,” said Wu Hongbo, Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs and Secretary-General for the International Conference on Small Island Developing States.
For more information: http://unpan3.un.org/egovkb#.U7HG_PldVlq
This monthly briefing highlights that financing conditions improve in euro area peripheral countries and in emerging economies, that the US economy bounces back after a difficult first quarter and that China’s first-quarter GDP growth is the slowest in two years.
For more information:
http://www.un.org/en/development/desa/policy/wesp/wesp_mb.shtml
The World Youth Report 2013—Youth Migration and Development is the product of the efforts, contributions and support of many people and organizations. From the outset, the process of developing the Report involved a range of participatory
consultations designed to draw on the perspectives of youth on how migration affects them. These consultative sessions
included a five-week e-consultation process, a survey on youth migration and development, a call for visual art
illustrating the daily life experiences of young migrants as well as youth initiatives on migration and development,
and a Google+ Hangout held on 6 March 2013 to identify sustainable solutions for addressing youth migration challenges.
For more information: http://www.unworldyouthreport.org/
The global economy is expected to strengthen over the next two years, despite a downgrade of growth prospects for some developing economies and economies in transition, according to the UN World Economic Situation and Prospects (WESP) 2014 mid-year update, launched on 21 May, 2014. Global growth has been revised slightly lower from the forecasts presented in the WESP 2014. Growth of world gross product (WGP) is now projected at 2.8 per cent in 2014 and 3.2 per cent in 2015, up from 2.2 per cent in 2013. However, this pace of expansion is still low compared to the growth path before the 2008 global financial crisis.
For more information: http://www.un.org/en/development/desa/policy/wesp/index.shtml
The slides contain the detailed maps and graphs of World Fertility Patterns 2013 wall chart which presents the latest data available on indicators of fertility patterns at the national, regional and world levels.
For more information:
http://www.un.org/en/development/desa/population/publications/fertility/fertility-patterns-2013.shtml
The slides contain the detailed maps and graphs of World Contraceptive Patterns 2013 wall chart which presents the latest data available on two of the indicators under Millennium Development Goal 5 to improve maternal health: contraceptive prevalence and unmet need for family planning. Estimates of specific contraceptive methods used in major areas and sub-regions of the world are also presented.
For more information: http://www.un.org/en/development/desa/population/publications/family/contraceptive-wallchart-2013.shtml
This monthly briefing highlights that global employment remains a challenge; the United States Federal Reserve faces challenges in adjusting its monetary policy and that financial markets in emerging economies attempted to stabilize.
For more information:
http://www.un.org/en/development/desa/policy/wesp/wesp_mb.shtml
The Economic and Social Council will hold its Special high-level meeting with the World Bank, International Monetary Fund, the World Trade Organization and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development on 14 and 15 April at the United Nations Headquarters, New York. The overall theme of the meeting will be “Coherence, coordination and cooperation in the context of financing for sustainable development and the post-2015 development agenda”.
For more information:
http://www.un.org/esa/ffd/ecosoc/springmeetings/2014/index.htm
This monthly briefing highlights how the world economy is struggling to gain momentum, emerging economies facing policy dilemma in trying to stabilize currencies and the G20 meeting making a call for new measures to lift growth and create jobs.
For more information:
http://www.un.org/en/development/desa/policy/wesp/wesp_mb.shtml
This monthly briefing highlights that emerging economies face renewed financial turbulence, that US economy registered robust GDP growth in the fourth quarter of 2013 and that the last quarter of 2013 revealed a heterogeneous economic performance in the developing world.
For more information:
http://www.un.org/en/development/desa/policy/wesp/wesp_mb.shtml
Published by the Division for Social Policy and Development (DSPD) of UN DESA, the report places special focus on policy and disadvantaged social groups, in addition to examining the consequences of high inequality. “Much can be learnt from those countries that managed to reduce inequality even under an uncertain and volatile global environment,” said Mr. Wu Hongbo, UN DESA’s Under–Secretary-General. “The international community can play a role in providing support to policies that help reduce inequality.”
A unique contribution of the report is that it brings special attention to the disparities that are experienced by five specific social and population groups – youth, indigenous peoples, older persons, persons with disabilities and migrants – and also illustrates how such disparities intersect with and reinforce one another.
The report illustrates that growing inequalities can be brought to a stop by integrated policies that are universal in principle while paying particular attention to the needs of disadvantaged and marginalized populations. It reminds world leaders that, in addressing inequalities, policy matters.
For more information:
http://undesadspd.org/ReportontheWorldSocialSituation/2013.aspx
DESA News is an insider's look at the United Nations in the area of economic and social development policy. The newsletter is produced by the Communications and Information Management Service of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs in collaboration with DESA Divisions. DESA News is issued every month.
For more information:
http://www.un.org/en/development/desa/newsletter/desanews/2014/02.html
The World Economic Situation and Prospects 2014 reports that the global economy is improving but remains vulnerable to new and old headwinds. Global economic growth is forecast to accelerate from a sluggish 2.1 per cent in 2013 to 3.0 per cent in 2014 and 3.3 per cent in 2015. The report warns of the risks associated with the upcoming unwinding of quantitative easing programs in major developed economies.
For more information: http://bit.ly/WESP
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Rio +20 - Newsletter: Volume 2, issue 18 (30 september 2011)
1. Available Now: Rio+20 Brochure
Rio+20: Making it Happen
Newsletter of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development
Special Issue on Major Groups
30 September 2011, Volume 2, Issue 18
The SDGs: What Are They?
If Rio+20 aims to secure renewed
political commitment to sustainable
development, then we need concrete
ways of grounding that commitment
on the agenda of Member States, say
the Governments of Colombia and
Guatemala in a proposal that aims
In our efforts to enhance the
broadly to commit stakeholders to
participation of major groups, we are
achieving a sequence of targets for
dedicating this special issue of Rio+20:
sustainable development—similar to
Making it Happen to the perspectives
the Millennium Development Goals
of major groups stakeholders.
(MDGs)—known as the Sustainable
Development Goals (or SDGs) that would be tied to accelerating the implementation of Agenda
21.
The proposal insists that SDGs and MDGs be fully complimentary. However, while the MDGs
applied only to developing countries, SDGs would have universal application.
Quote A global movement of NGOs also believes that sustainable development must be achieved in
"One of the fundamental prerequisites “an ambitious, time-bound and accountable manner”. A team of experts from 25 civil society
for the achievement of sustainable organizations presented a set of 17 draft SDGs as part of the Chair’s Text to the 64th DPI/NGO
development is broad public Conference on Sustainable Societies, Responsive Citizens in Bonn, which aims to inform the
participation in decision-making.” Rio+20 process.
Agenda 21, Chapter 23 Those NGOs in Bonn highlight the necessity of achieving the full implementation of Agenda 21,
and see SDGs as a plan for all governments to do that within their respective capacities.
Will major groups come to more broadly embrace the SDGs as a way forward? Some of the
SDGs suggested are based on commitments already made by governments and other
stakeholders, others are newly proposed by civil society, and much remains to be articulated.
All nine major groups sectors have affirmed their desire to renew multi-stakeholder dialogues
with Member States and UN system partners to explore initiatives such as the SDGs throughout
the Rio+20 process.
Youth Harmonize Strategies for Rio+20
Sometimes called the ‘moral stakeholders’ of sustainable development, youth undoubtedly
stand to lose the most as a consequence of global inaction. But influencing negotiations from a
position of inexperience requires strategy and willingness to compete for the attention of
young people in order to captivate and mobilize their inputs for Rio+20.
www.uncsd2012.org/majorgroups Such is the challenge of the major group for Children and Youth, which produced its first
unified strategy for Rio+20 under the auspices
of the European Youth Forum, held from 21 to
25 September at the University on Youth and
Development in Mollina, Spain.
Follow Rio+20 Featured prominently in Mollina was the
Visit us on Facebook and Twitter theme of youth volunteerism, similarly reflected
at the DPI/NGO Conference in Bonn just several
weeks prior where the 10th anniversary of the
International Year of Volunteers was recognized
as a main theme alongside sustainable develop-
ment. Most partners and advocates from the
Send us feedback major group for Children and Youth are themselves volunteers, and balance the work of
uncsd2012@un.org coordinating the major group with demanding professional lives.
More information on the official steering committee for Rio+20 can be found online here.
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2. Major Groups Scale-up Their Initiatives Upcoming Events
The most compelling strengths of major groups can be Delhi Dialogue on ‘Green Economy
shared through their experiences of implementing and Inclusive Growth’
sustainable development around the world. That is 3 - 4 October 2011
why many are working to scale-up their initiatives to New Delhi, India
present to Member States in Rio de Janeiro next year. [more information]
The major group for Local Authorities has proposed a
Green Jobs Summit
global town hall at Rio+20 in order to convene a central
4 October 2011
dialogue on green urban economies and the urban
Toronto, Canada
future of our planet. The major group for Farmers is exploring the opportunity for Rio+20 to
[more information]
build a knowledge base for agriculture, improve education for the rural poor and enhance the
dialogue between food production, income, stewardship and quality of life. Sharing Green Economy Best Practices
Major groups have traditionally been important innovators, partners and implementers Towards Rio+20
alongside governments and UN agencies. Key global stakeholders mustn’t delay in bringing 11 - 12 October 2011
their initiatives forward in order to explore effective partnerships and build linkages so that Warsaw, Poland
their messages will resonate at the highest political level next year. [more information]
More information on major groups initiatives and activities can be found online here.
European Regional Science and
Technology Workshop
12 - 14 October 2011
CIVICUS Gets Behind Rio+20 Helsinki, Finland
Effective and sustainable civic participation requires citizens who enjoy rights of free associa-
[more information]
tion and engage all sectors of society, says CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation,
which recently became a global Nigerian Youth Summit on Sustainable
co-organizing partner on behalf of the Development - SustainNIGERIA
major group for Non-governmental 14 - 15 October 2011
Organizations. The arrival of CIVICUS Abuja, Nigeria
onto the diverse scene of major groups [more information]
organizing partners promises to deliver
more engagement with stakeholders Rio+20 Preparatory Meeting in the
from the global South and contribute Arab Region
toward articulating the social pillar of 16 -17 October 2011
sustainable development. Cairo, Egypt
The Brussels-based Northern Alliance [more information]
for Sustainability (ANPED) has performed
crucial coordination functions for major Major Groups & Stakeholders
groups within sustainable development Tristan Brand/CIVICUS Asia-Pacific Meeting ‘The Road to
processes for years, and is pleased to welcome CIVICUS as a co-organizing partner for the NGOs Rio 2012: Charting our Path’
sector in the run-up to Rio+20. 17 - 18 October 2011
The 10th CIVICUS World Assembly, attended by more than 800 delegates of various social Seoul, Republic of Korea
movements, converged around the theme of sustainable, inclusive development based on [more information]
human rights, and was held in Montreal from 10-12 September. The themes of Rio+20 featured
prominently on the agenda and within the break-out sessions that took place between key Rio+20 Preparatory Meeting for
facilitators from within the global NGO community. Asia and the Pacific
‘Non-governmental Organizations’ are 19 - 20 October 2011
recognized as one of the nine sectors of Seoul, Republic of Korea
social, economic and scientific stakeholders Don’t Miss Training! [more information]
empowered by Agenda 21, which has enabled The Rio+20 Secretariat, in partnership with
innovative standards of non-state the UN Regional Economic Commissions Rio+20 Preparatory Meeting for Africa
participation within major intergovernmental and Stakeholder Forum, are offering the 20 - 25 October 2011
p ro ces se s re la ted to su sta in a b le following opportunities for regional major Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
development. groups and other stakeholder partners to [more information]
receive one day of training to enhance
awareness of the themes of sustainable GURN/ITUC on ‘A Green Economy
We Want You… development and build capacity to engage that Works for Social Progress’
…To share your views on the nexus between with the Rio+20 process. 24 - 25 October 2011
water, energy and food security! The major • 15 October in Cairo, Egypt Brussels, Belgium
group for Women will be conducting an • 16 October in Seoul, Republic of Korea [more information]
online survey until 15 October as part of a • 19 October in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
global consultation process feeding into • 30 November in Geneva, Switzerland Complete listing of meetings and events
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