1. Panel Discussion Bringing Rio+20 Agenda Forward
7th Global RCE Conference
21-24 September 2012
Tongyeong, ROK
Panel Discussion Bringing Rio+20 Agenda Forward
Katsunori Suzuki
Kanazawa University
Visiting Professor, UNU-IAS
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2. Topics for Discussion
What are the implications Rio+20 outcomes for the ESD stakeholders?
What opportunities these outcomes offer for the multistakeholder communities of learning such as RCEs?

3. Inputs to Rio+20 from multi-stakeholder communities
STATEMENT OF JAPANESE STAKEHOLDERS FOR THE PROMOTION OF
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
Proposal for the Development of a Sustainable 21st Century International Society
based on Experiences from the Great East Japan Earthquake, Tsunami and
Subsequent Nuclear Power Plant Accident
MESSAGE FROM ASIAN NGO NETWORK ON
EDUCATION FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
Message from ESD-J and other Asian NGOs working
for ESD

4. Implications of Rio+20 outcomes for the ESD stakeholders
Four major observations
Change of major actors to promote sustainable development
Promotion of ESD beyond the DESD
Higher Education for Sustainability Initiative and
HESD voluntary commitments
Education stakeholder group

5. Opportunities these outcomes offer for the multi-stakeholder communities of learning
Further development of ESD promotion framework towards the Global Conference on ESD (DESD Final Year Conference) in November 2014
Framework for further promotion of ESD beyond the DESD
Primary and secondary education: ASP
HESD
RCEs
Community learning centers (CLCs)
NGO community: formal launch of the Asian NGO Network on ESD (ANNE) in 2014