1. Felix Dodds Executive Director Stakeholder Forum for Our Common Future
Towards Earth Summit 2002
Felix Dodds
Executive Director
Stakeholder Forum
for Our Common Future

2. all of this will be hamburgers!"
Towards Earth Summit 2002
One day son,
all of this will be hamburgers!"

3. Towards Earth Summit 2002 Stakeholder Forum A multi-stakeholder forum
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Towards Earth Summit 2002
Stakeholder Forum
A multi-stakeholder forum
Information outreach: Network 2002, Outreach, CD ROMS
Capacity building – regional support
Research and policy – briefings, books, reports
Multi-Stakeholder Dialogues – Implementation Summit
Helping organizations plan their events for 2002

4. Towards Earth Summit 2002 1972 Stockholm Conference
1987 Brundtland Report
1992 Rio Earth Summit
1997 UNGASS – Earth Summit II
2002 Earth Summit 2002

5. Outcomes of Earth Summit 1992
Agenda 21
Rio Declaration
Climate Change Convention
Bio-diversity Convention
Forestry Principles

6. Outcomes of Earth Summit 1992
Desertification Convention
Straddling Fish Stocks Convention
UN Commission on Sustainable Development
Role of Stakeholders
Local Agenda 21
Persistent Organic Pollutants
Prior Informed Consent

7. UN General Assembly Special Session 1997
Finance
Climate Change
Forests
MAI
Freshwater
Stakeholders

8. Stakeholder Involvement: Agenda 21 / Major Groups
Women
Children & Youth
Indigenous Peoples
NGOs
Business & Industry
Workers & Trade Unions
Scientific Community
Local Authorities
Farmers

9. Stakeholder Involvement
CSD stakeholder dialogues
Regional & international PrepComms dialogues
Summit dialogues
“Global thematic roundtables”
Other multi-stakeholder initiatives towards the Summit

10. Possible Key Issues for 2002
Freshwater
Energy & Climate Change
Fisheries
Food Security
Poverty & environment
HIV/AIDS and other health issues
Financing Sustainable Development - FDI, ODA, NFMs
Trade
Institutional Reform

11. Why stakeholder involvement?
Gather expertise
Arrive at optimum decisions
Generate commitment
Generate partnerships
Further implementation
Further good governance

12. Preparations for 2002
National level reviews; UN country profiles; promotion initiatives
Regional level: PrepComms regional assessments on implementation; regional platforms to develop policy responses and follow-up processes
Global level: 4 PrepComs review of Agenda 21; progress on priority issues

13. Linkages With Other UN Processes
Rio Conventions Processes
Freshwater Conference, Bonn, Dec 2001
Finance for Development, March 2002
Environment for Europe Conference, Kiev, 2003
Follow up processes for Cairo / Beijing / Copenhagen / Istanbul / Rome

14. Reports for 2002 UNEP: Global Environmental Outlook GEO 2002
UNDP: Human Development Report HDR 2002:
World Bank: World Development Report WDR 2002/03: Sustainability
European Environment Agency: European State of the Environment Report
Bonn Freshwater Report

15. Towards Earth Summit 2002 What can be achieved by Earth Summit 2002?
Ratification of the Kyoto Protocol
Ratification of the Cartagena Protocol on Bio-safety
Ratification of the Straddling Fish Stocks Convention
Ratification of the Persistent Organic Pollutants Protocol
Ratification of the Prior Informed Consent Protocol
Funds for Desertification Convention

16. Potential Outcomes of 2002 Ratification of the present Rio Conventions
Johannesburg Declaration
Review of Agenda 21
A Forward Looking Agenda for the 21st Century: Concrete, action-oriented decisions
Increased funding for sustainable development
Framework for international institutional reform & progress in global governance
Multi-Stakeholder Partnerships
Renewed trust
… A New Deal

17. Risks for 2002 Imbalanced approach and outcome
Lack of political will towards real change
Failure to create new approaches
Lack of implementation
Outdated institutions
Increased lack of trust
Fragmentation

18. Towards Earth Summit 2002
“Over the bleached bones are written the pathetic words. Too late!”
Martin Luther King