1. Strategies for Sustainable Development Meeting the Challenges of the Post Rio+20 World November 14, 2012

2. Retrospective 1992 2002 2012

3. Global Environment Outlook 5 UNEP Outlook: “Without major course corrections…most internationally agreed goals would be missed, many by a large margin” Insights: Social contracts grounded in jointly developed visions of a sustainable future Need for targets and stronger accountability Adaptive management Ch. 16 Scenarios and Sustainability Transformations

4. Global Risk Clusters 2012 World Economic Forum

5. Prospective

6. GLOBAL TRENDS IN STRATEGY-MAKING

7. Positive Trends  Integration of SD within existing national planning mechanisms and/or constitutions (e.g., Ecuador, Costa Rica, Brazil, Bhutan, India, UAE, Zambia, China, South Korea, Switzerland)

8. Positive Trends  High level of activity and quality at sub-national level

9. Positive Trends  Continued progress at national level

10. Positive Trends  Measurable targets included in most strategies

11. Positive Trends  Responding to global economic crises using Green Growth strategies (ROK, EU, Guyana, Ethiopia, others).

12. Challenges  Accountability mechanisms for targets unclear or lacking

13. Challenges  Multi-stakeholder bodies being discontinued (UK, Canada, and Tasmania, …)

14. Challenges  Bringing the wellbeing and sustainability concepts together “…the time is ripe for our measurement system to shift emphasis from measuring economic production to measuring people’s well-being. And measures of well-being should be put in a context of sustainability...”

15. CREATING THE ENABLING ENVIRONMENT

16. Three core abilities for governance in the 21 st century Identifying Critical Capacity Gaps Sustain-ability Multi-generational Multi-dimensional Critical thresholds Multi-stakeholder Account-ability Forward-looking Outcome and evidence-based Responsibility for performance Transparency Adapt-ability Anticipatory Self-organizing Iterative Improvement Govern-abilities

17. Knowledge Sharing, Capacity Building and Networking

18. Strategies for Sustainable Development Meeting the Challenges of the Post Rio+20 World November 14, 2012