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Contents A/CONF.216/PC/2 Page I. Introduction ................................................................... 4 II. Overview ..................................................................... 4 III. State of implementation and remaining gaps ........................................ 5 IV. The green economy in the context of sustainable development and poverty eradication ..... 15 V. Institutional framework for sustainable development. ................................. 20 VI. The way forward ............................................................... 30 10-30256 3
A/CONF.216/PC/2 I. Introduction 1. In General Assembly resolution 64/236 (para. 20), Member States called for a United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development to be organized “at the highest possible level” in 2012, with three objectives, namely, securing renewed political commitment for sustainable development, assessing the progress to date and remaining gaps in implementation of the outcomes of the major summits on sustainable development, and addressing new and emerging challenges. To that end Member States decided that the Conference would “result in a focused political document”. The resolution stipulates two specific themes for the Conference: (a) A green economy in the context of sustainable development and poverty eradication; (b) The institutional framework for sustainable development. 2. In terms of process (see A/CONF.216/PC/3 and A/CONF.216/PC/4), the resolution calls for three Preparatory Committee meetings, lasting a total of eight days between 2010 and 2012, and requests the Secretary-General, in preparation for the first meeting, to submit a report on progress to date and remaining gaps in the implementation of the outcomes of the major summits in the area of sustainable development, as well as an analysis of the two Conference themes. II. Overview 3. The expectations for the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, especially the call of the General Assembly for a renewed political commitment to sustainable development, are guided by the history of international agreements on the subject, especially the broadly shared and long-standing consensus over a vision of shared prosperity within the carrying capacity of the Earth’s ecosystems. While the conceptual framework has a longer history and pedigree, the term sustainable development — and its definition as development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs — was fixed in public policy discourse and the popular imagination by the Brundtland report in 1987. 1 That report laid the groundwork for the promise of the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development 2 adopted at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in 1992 to provide for healthy and fulfilling lives for the current generation, while entrusting to future generations the means to do the same. 4. As the international community prepares for the twentieth anniversary of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development and the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Brundtland report, this is a time for reflection on what has been achieved and what has been left undone by the past generation. The “interlocking crises” of the Brundtland report (energy, development and the environment) are still with us, though in more advanced forms, and a few more have been added: food __________________ 1 Report of the World Commission on Environment and Development: “Our Common Future” (A/42/427, annex). 2 Report of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, Rio de Janeiro, 3-14 June 1992, vol. I, Resolutions Adopted by the Conference (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.93.I.8 and corrigendum, resolution 1, annex I). 4 10-30256
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