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Outcomes of Rio + 20
CountryonProgress
& impact
the newSnapshots
development
framework
Yongyi Min
United Nations Statistics Division
Workshop on Millennium Development Goals Monitoring: 2015 and Beyond
(Bangkok, 9-13 July 2012)
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Overview
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The United Nations Conference on Sustainable
Development (Rio+20) was held from 20-22 June in Rio de
Janeiro, Brazil. It represented a global movement of change
in which governments, the private sector and civil society
all contribute to achieve global prosperity while protecting
the environment.
More than 40,000 people, including parliamentarians,
mayors, UN officials, chief executive officers and civil
society leaders , attended Rio+20.
The outcome document is titled ‘The Future We Want’.
More than 700 voluntary commitments to advance
sustainable development was registered.
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The Future We Want:
Common vision and overarching objectives
• Poverty eradication, changing unsustainable and promoting
sustainable patterns of consumption and production and
protecting and managing the natural resource base of
economic and social development are the overarching
objectives of and essential requirements for sustainable
development.
• Promote sustained, inclusive and equitable economic
growth, social development, and environment protection
• Strengthen international cooperation
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The Future We Want :
Renewing political commitment
• Reaffirming the Rio Principles and the past action plans
Reinvigorate political will and to raise the level of commitment by
the international community to move the sustainable development
agenda forward, through the achievement of the internationally agreed
development goals, including MDGs.
• Advancing integration, implementation and coherence: assessing the
progress and the remaining gaps
• Engaging major groups and other stakeholders
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The Future We Want:
Green economy in the context of SD and poverty eradication
• Apply green economy policies as a useful tool in advancing
sustainable development and ending poverty
• Recognize the importance of linking financing, technology,
capacity-building and national needs for SD policies and green
economy
• Recognize the need for broader measures of progress to
complement GDP
• Request the United Nations Statistical commission, in
consultation with relevant United Nations system entities and
other relevant organizations, to launch a programme of work in
this area building on existing initiatives.
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The Future We Want:
Institutional framework for sustainable
development
• Strengthen the role of the United Nations Environment
Programme (UNEP)
• Establish a high-level political forum to address the three
pillars of sustainable development in an integrated way
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The Future We Want:
Framework for action
It was agreed:
• to accord the highest priority to poverty eradication and encourage initiatives to
enhance social protection for all people
• To improve the health of women, men, youth and children, and to promote education for
sustainable development
• to promote gender equality and the empowerment
• to support sustainable tourism and sustainable transport
• to strive for sustainable consumption and production,
• to ensure food security, clean water and sanitation, and affordable, and sustainable
energy for all,
• to act on the conservation and sustainable use of marine biological diversity,
• to curtail marine pollution, overfishing and ocean acidification,
• to strengthen social protection floors and tackle global unemployment, especially youth
unemployment,
• to build more lovable and sustainable cities and communities with decent housing and
sustainable transport for all,
• to enhance support to small island developing States, the least developed countries and
other countries in special situations
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The Future We Want:
Sustainable development goals
• Establish an inclusive and transparent intergovernmental
process on SDGs
• An open working group of 30 representatives shall be
constituted no later than at the opening of the sixty-seventh
session of the GA.
• The group will submit a report, to the sixty-eighth session
of the Assembly, containing a proposal for SDGs for
consideration and appropriate action.
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The Future We Want:
Sustainable development goals
• SDGs should be action oriented, concise and easy to
communicate, limited in number, inspirational, global in
nature and universally applicable to all countries while
taking into account different national realities, capacities
and levels of development and respecting national policies
and priorities.
• Progress towards the achievement of the goals needs to be
assessed and accompanied by targets and indicators.
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The Future We Want:
Means of implementation
• Mobilize financial resources for sustainable development
• Explore options for accelerating technology transfer to
developing countries
• Enhance capacity-building for sustainable development
and strengthen technical and scientifically cooperation,
including North-South, South-South and triangular
cooperation.
• Reaffirm the critical role that a universal, rules-based,
open, non-discriminatory and equitable multilateral trading
system, as well as meaningful trade liberalization.
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Impact on the new development framework
• Rio+20 reaffirmed the international commitment to
accelerate the achievement of the internationally agreed
development goals, including the MDG by 2015
• The process to develop the SDGs will be coordinated and
coherent with the processes to consider the post-2015
development agenda.
• Many SDG thematic areas and cross-sectoral issues are
covered by the current MDG framework and other areas
are under consideration for the new development
framework.
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