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06/13/2012

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Understand what will happen at each stage of the summit of the UN sustainable development
 
One thing is certain among the numerous elocubrações on the concrete results of the Conference of the UN Sustainable Development starting on Tuesday (13): there will come a statement that, upon signature by the member countries of the United Nations, will serve as guidance for environmental policies in the coming decades.

The document was born in January with 19 pages, grew to 200 during the negotiations in March, and should arrive in Brazil with 70 pages. This wide variation in the amount of text placed and edited in the future declaration demonstrates the great difficulty in negotiating economic issues, social and environmental, that form the basis for sustainable development among all countries involved.
The statement should close the event with just over 30 pages (or at least that is what the Brazilian government would like to see) and shall be signed by the leaders of UN member states who will be in Rio de Janeiro from 20 to 22 June.

Unanimity
According to Brazilian diplomats, "this type of meeting no vote, unless in the latter case and in emergency situations." The decision, whether to delete or modify paragraphs words are taken by consensus: everyone has to agree. "That's why the negotiators can reach a technical point, but leaders have to finish the job. There comes a time when it is literally an exchange, a give up a placement, the other accepts a change and so on, "said the diplomat.

It is also because of the consensus that the meetings can last several hours and, often, require them to work through the night. Polls are quick, but to achieve unanimity requires time and energy.

A major novelty of the Rio +20 is the greater involvement of NGOs and civil society organizations. According to Ambassador Luiz Alberto Figueiredo, executive secretary of the National Commission for the Rio +20, 30 representatives of organized groups have the opportunity to speak before the plenary the heads of state and may participate during the three day event, the roundtables organized for leaders.

Alice Abreu, International Council for Science, the declaration followed negotiations in New York between May 29 and June 2. She said that the representative of their group who will speak in front of the leaders is the chemist who was awarded the Nobel Prize Y. T. Lee "This effective participation, where besides observing, we can also talk with the heads of state, it is valuable to society and be the first time it will happen," Abreu celebrated.

One of the Brazilian diplomats involved in negotiations and organization of the Rio +20 explained that, after three days of dialogue between NGOs and representatives of civil society (16-19 June), 30 resolutions will be formalized and subsequently presented to by leading representatives of these groups. "There will be 10 resolutions for each of the three pillars of sustainable development: social, environmental and financial, totaling 30 suggestions," said the diplomat.

What will happen at each stage:

Meeting of the Preparatory Committee (13-15 June)
This meeting will be the last opportunity to complete the text of the final declaration of the Rio +20, which shall be signed by international leaders who will be attending in Rio de Janeiro. The text was first negotiated in January, with the creation of the Zero Draft, ie, the initial draft, and went through several rounds of negotiations since then monthly. Five days before the meeting of heads of state, will be the last chance for the ambassadors and negotiators resolve all disputes technical language and content. What is not resolved in these three days, will be to be discussed by the leaders.

Forum for Corporate Sustainability Rio +20 (15-18 June)
This event will bring together representatives of about three thousand international companies with the UN body responsible for educating them on sustainability and evaluates them, the Global Compact. It's like the Rio +20 in the private sector, who will make decisions about what companies can do to help improve the economy, society and environment at the same time.

Dialogues for Sustainable Development (16-19 June)
A few days for the arrival of heads of state and to the top of the highest level of the Rio +20, the Brazilian government organized with the support of the UN, the dialogues for NGOs and representatives of civil society organizations. The event will be about 20 000 participants and will result in sustainable recommendations 30 (10 on social issues, 10 and 10 on the environment on how to finance sustainable development) that will be presented to international leaders consecutively for 30 representatives of these groups.

High Level Segment (20-22 June)
The Rio +20 itself will be a meeting with heads of state from dozens of countries, led by Brazilian President Rousseff. It is this meeting that the final statement will come out, signed by all the leaders present. For this meeting is considered a success, it should produce an ambitious statement, requesting the opening of a series of negotiations more specific (such as the protection of oceans, for example), and stating a clear agenda of subsequent events so that these negotiations can actually be carried out and the paper.

In short, leaders must define what are the objects of sustainable development (water, oceans, etc.) and should develop an agenda to negotiate these issues internationally, which should be regulated globally, as is currently the issue of greenhouse gases,
with the Kyoto Protocol and the annual Conference on Climate Change.



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