{"id":10980,"date":"2011-12-02T11:24:37","date_gmt":"2011-12-02T16:24:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/?p=10980"},"modified":"2016-08-29T16:40:31","modified_gmt":"2016-08-29T20:40:31","slug":"accountability-engagement-rio20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/2011\/12\/02\/accountability-engagement-rio20\/","title":{"rendered":"Pardee Center to Co-Organize Side Event at UN Rio+20 Intersessional"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Rio20Logo2\"<\/a>The Pardee Center at Boston University will co-organize a side event titled \u201cAchieving Implementation – Accountability, Engagement, and Multi-Stakeholder Cooperation\u201d<\/em> <\/strong>to be held at the United Nations in New York on December 16, 2011, at the Second Intersessional Meeting \u00a0for the forthcoming\u00a02012 Rio+20 conference (the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development). The event is co-organized by\u00a0Natural Resources Defense Council, New York University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Vitae Civilis, and Adelphi Research\u00a0and will be\u00a0held on Friday, 16 December 2011; 1.15-2.45pm in Conference Room 1 (NLB)<\/strong> at the United Nations in New York.<\/p>\n

The institutional framework for sustainable development (IFSD) and Green Economy in the context of sustainable development and poverty eradication (GESDPE) are the two themes of the Rio+20 Conference. Yet, with less than seven months to go until the Rio+20, there is a dearth of specific and implementable ideas under the IFSD agenda, while GESDPE has been met with a number of reservations in terms of how to accelerate its implementation in industrialized, developing and emerging economies.\u00a0 Greater public awareness and participation will be required to enable the shift to a green economy. It is ever more apparent that if we want to achieve sustainable development, we need implementation and broader engagement.\"PardeePosterUNevent\"<\/a><\/p>\n

In this context, the Side Event hopes \u00a0to positively contribute to the Rio+20 process by presenting different ways to address the implementation problem. The event will bring together (1) a mock-up of how a global registry of commitments on sustainable development could look, (2) fresh ideas about how to move toward a Green Economy from the Climate CoLab\u2019s 2011 online Green Economy Contest (3) different formats of multi-stakeholder cooperation towards a Green Economy.<\/p>\n

The Side Event will feature:<\/p>\n

1) Stephan Contius, Head of Division for United Nations and Cooperation with Emerging and Developing Countries, German Federal Ministry for the Environment<\/p>\n

2) \u00a0Miquel Mu\u00f1oz, Pardee Center <\/a><\/p>\n

3) Jacob Scherr, Natural Resources Defense Council<\/p>\n

4) Thomas W Malone, New York University<\/p>\n

5) Robert Laubacher, Massachusetts Institute of Technology<\/p>\n

6) Aron Belinky, Vitae Civilis<\/p>\n

7) Dennis Taenzler, Adelphi Research<\/p>\n

The Pardee Center has focused on the governance dimensions of the Rio+20 conference, including through its recent\u00a0Task Force report on governance for a green economy<\/a> (also\u00a0here<\/a> and\u00a0here<\/a> and here<\/a>), participating actively in UN discussions (here<\/a> and\u00a0here<\/a>), hosting discussions on accountability issues at the Pardee Center (here<\/a>,\u00a0here<\/a> and\u00a0here<\/a>), through its previous seminars at the United Nations (here <\/a>and\u00a0here<\/a>), and through its\u00a0related publications<\/a>, including a recent paper on accountability in global environmental governance<\/a>. This brainstorming event will build on these activities, and ideas generated at the seminar will contribute to a future Pardee Center policy brief on the subject.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Pardee Center at Boston University will co-organize a side event titled \u201cAchieving Implementation – Accountability, Engagement, and Multi-Stakeholder Cooperation\u201d to be held at the United Nations in New York on December 16, 2011, at the Second Intersessional Meeting \u00a0for the forthcoming\u00a02012 Rio+20 conference (the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development). The event is co-organized […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2140,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4141,60],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10980"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2140"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10980"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24953,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10980\/revisions\/24953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}