As long as Adil has set the agenda, so to speak, I wanted to mention that the Earth Negotiations Bulletin has been there while agendas are being set since Rio. We will be covering the PrepCom that begins on Monday and will provide some historical perspective in our analysis. Our summary should be available by the end of next week at http://www.iisd.ca/uncsd/prepcom1/
If you are interested in looking at the GA resolution and other documents, the links are available at http://www.un.org/esa/dsd/rio20/index.shtml Some of the "questions" to provoke discussion next week are at http://www.un.org/esa/dsd/rio20/pdfs/prepcom1_Information_Note_2.pdf Stay tuned to see how it goes. Pam Pamela S. Chasek, Ph.D. Executive Editor, Earth Negotiations Bulletin IISD Reporting Services 300 East 56th Street #11A New York, NY 10022 USA Tel: +1 212-888-2737- Fax: +1 646 219 0955 E-mail: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) www.iisd.org<file:///C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\pam\Local%20Settings\Temporary%20Internet%20Files\www.iisd.org> IISD Reporting Services - Earth Negotiations Bulletin www.iisd.ca<file:///C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\pam\Local%20Settings\Temporary%20Internet%20Files\www.iisd.ca> Subscribe for free to our publications http://www.iisd.ca/email/subscribe.htm From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Adil Najam Sent: Saturday, May 15, 2010 3:01 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [gep-ed] Rio+20: Agendas being set when we are not paying attention... Dear GEPers I realize this may sound like self-promotion, but I hope it is not just that :-) As some of you may know, the first PrepCom for the 2012 Rio+20 Conference (officially the 'United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development' and unofficially EarthSummit02) starts Monday but the preparatory negotiations have already begun, most frantically at the just concluded meeting on the Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD). Yesterday, the Secretary General announced the leadership team for 2012, headed by China's Sha Zukang as the Secretary General for Rio+20 (the role that Maurice Strong had for both Rio and Stockholm). >From this Monday to Wednesday the first PrepCom will set the process and >agenda for the meeting. Few, if any, in the media or in academia will notice. >But I wager that in a year and certainly in two years from now, all of us will >be noticing and pointing out all the things that should have been done. Sad >that we are nearly never paying attention when agendas are being set :-) Now for the self-promotional part... I just published two op-eds on Rio+20 one with my BU colleague Henrik Selin which I thought some of you may be interested in: -- In TripleCrisis: "Getting Ready for Rio+20" > http://bit.ly/aFcNHT (report here: http://bit.ly/b0I3ad ) -- In Express Tribune "A New Deal for Development" http://bit.ly/aLppfS (report here: http://bit.ly/bSwqmt ) The Pardee Center has been quite active in the Rio+20 debates ( http://www.bu.edu/pardee/news/ ) and has also been publishing a series of policy briefs ( http://www.bu.edu/pardee/publications/ ) which we will continue doing so until Rio+20 (please consider this an invitation to contribute to the series, which has a good distribution within UN policy types): 005: Global Environmental Governance: The Challenge of Accountability By Adil Najam and Mark Halle http://www.bu.edu/pardee/publications/sdi-005-accountability/ 004: The Role of Cities in Sustainable Development By David Satterthwaite http://www.bu.edu/pardee/publications/sdi-004-cities/ 003: Are Women the Key to Sustainable Development? By Candice Stevens http://www.bu.edu/pardee/publications/sdi-003-women/ 002: Rio+20 - Another World Summit? By Miquel Munoz and Adil Najam http://www.bu.edu/pardee/publications/sdi-002-rio-plus-2/ 001: Pushing 'Reset' on Sustainable Development By Alan Atkisson http://www.bu.edu/pardee/publications/sdi-001-reset-sustainable-development/ Until a more academic literature on this emerges (I hope, soon) maybe this would provide something to at least get conversations going on what Rio+20 is and should be. I hope it helps. Regards Adil Najam ------------------------- ADIL NAJAM The Frederick S. Pardee Professor for Global Public Policy Director, The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future Professor, Department of International Relations Professor, Department of Geography and Environment Boston University Pardee House 67 Bay State Road Boston, MA 02215, USA Ph: 617 358 4000 http://www.bu.edu/pardee/ http://twitter.com/BUPardeeCenter
