The *draft* purpose for the 2009 Earth Summit is:

To serve as an active and open sustainability forum to create attainable and

measurable goals for next year and beyond, as well as nurture and forward existing campus efforts;

To produce an action oriented Blueprint for a Sustainable Campus to inspire and

inform subsequent working groups to help UCSC continue to implement socially, economically, and ecologically healthy practices on our campus;

To reflect on UCSCs sustainability successes and to identify challenges in order to

assess new opportunities, and offer practical solutions that are accessible to the campus and community;

To find new and innovative ways to interact and collaborate within our own community

and with those communities that impact and surround us.

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Earth Summit 2002 Calendar of Events

Access Initiative - World Resources Institute The Access Initiative (TAI) is a global coalition of public interest groups collaborating to promote national-level implementation of commitments to access to information, participation, and justice in environmental decision-making. Aspirations and Reality: Building Sustainability - Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors Foundation The conference - open to 500 delegates only - centres on the presentation of the world's most successful examples of sustainable development across the sectors to date. Providing access to world-leading expertise and guidance, this is a valuable learning and networking opportunity for those committed to corporate social, economic and environmental responsibility. Business Partnership Initiatives - Business Action for Sustainable Development BASD presents 'Business Partnership Initiatives', examples of business working openly with others towards sustainable development.View our collection of partnerships initiatives and submit your own initiative. The Earth Charter Initiative - Earth Council The Earth Charter is a vision for the future that can renew government's and people's commitment to achieving what began at the Rio Earth Summit, but has lacked a unified framework and solidarity in effort. Earth Summit 2002 Awards Stakeholder Forum & RSA The Earth Summit 2002 Awards aim to encourage further implementation of sustainable development through recognizing, rewarding and publicising 10 years of global stakeholder best practice, which has inspired and will continue to inspire others to work towards the ideals of Agenda 21, as set out at the Rio Earth Summit in 1992.

The

Implementation Conference: Stakeholder Action For Our Common Future

was held Johannesburg, South Africa, 24 - 26 August 2002 at the Indaba Hotel and the IUCN Environment Centre. The process was facilitated by Stakeholder Forum for Our Common Future.

Purpose: To inspire stakeholders to create collectively, clear, measurable on-going action to deliver the Sustainable Development Agreements Desired Outcome: Concrete, agreed and owned collaborative actions plans aimed at implementing the Sustainable Development Agreements in four specific areas

The IC is a process and event that demonstrates how stakeholders, working in partnership, can play their roles and meet their responsibilities in sustainable development. For more information about the IC, its outcomes and preparations, please use the navigation bar on the left. Earth Summit Campaign - Globe Southern Africa GLOBE Southern Africa's Earth Summit Campaign has four main objectives; To mobilise parliamentarians To raise awareness about the Summit in legislatures around the world To enable MPs to play a meaningful and active role in the preparations for the Summit and at the Summit itself To provide legislators with information and legislative tools they can use after the Summit in their respective parliaments EnviroLaw Conference 2002 - EnviroLaw Solutions EnviroLaw 2002 will examine and explore the negotiation, agreement and ratification of conventions, the application of laws and regulations and their impact on sustainable development. Environment Centre - IUCN A place of encounter where environment and development, business and NGOs, government and civil society can meet - both formally and informally. Including: "The Green Web in Action" exhibition; Daily high-level Futures Dialogues led by key figures; An "Investment Fair Kiosk", prepared by ProjectsAfrica; and "The Green Web" Internet caf, where "free" Internet services will be offered to members. The Equator Initiative - UNDP, IUCN, TVE The Equator Initiative is designed to reduce poverty through the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity in the Equatorial belt by fostering, supporting and strengthening community partnerships through the recognition of local achievements, the fostering of South-south capacity building, and by contributing to the generation and sharing of knowledge. The first "Innovative Partnership Awards for Sustainable Development in Tropical Ecosystems" will be presented at WSSD. Implementation Conference - Stakeholder Forum for Our Common Future The Earth Summit 2002 in South Africa offers an ideal context for stakeholders to come together and work out how to do their part in implementing the Sustainable Development Agreements.

Johannesburg Climate Legacy - Various Supporters Under the umbrella of the WSSD, The Johannesburg Climate Legacy (JCL) measures the CO2 emissions of the Summit (from aircraft flights to electricity used at the event itself). These emissions will be offset through investments in carbon-reducing sustainable projects across South Africa. Companies, individuals, governments can sponsor some of this offset and, in so doing on this world stage, make one of the most important commitments in modern history to a sustainable future. In addition to the climate impact, the offset projects will have a massive and lasting impact on the sustainable development of local communities. Johannesburg EcoCity Initiative - City of Johannesburg & EcoCity Trust This half-day tour departs every day twice a day in the morning and in the afternoon. A partnership is seeking to change all of this through the award winning Johannesburg Eco-City Initiative. Waste recycling, paper making, second hand bicycle refurbishment, smokeless fires, ecologically friendly homes, eco-villages, energy conservation, renewable energy from our abundant sunlight, water conservation and harvesting, eco-tourism and youth and women empowerment are just some of the activities you will see and experience on your visit. Find out how energy impacts on the community in the first urban peoples energy centre where solar cookers replace the open hearth as the future for African women in the modern world. Find out how sustainable development can be achieved in a developing country when the community support and commit to such endeavours. Local Action Moves the World - International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives Local Action Moves the World will provide an opportunity for local government leaders and their partners to present the key messages from the Local Government Dialogue Paper www.iclei.org/johannesburg2002/lgdp.htm, the official representation of the local government position, to the Summit and the world. These messages will be illustrated by best strategy case examples and supported by commitments for the future. Responsible Tourism in Destinations - Multiple Hosts Maximising socio-economic benefits for local communities from tourism ventures while maintaining the quality of the environment is a major challenge facing all the stake holders in the tourism industry. These issues will be focussed on during this hands-on, outcomes-based conference in Cape Town, in preparation for the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD). Summit Institute for Sustainable Development - The Smithsonian Institution The SISD is a novel initiative, mobilizing existing WSSD participants to present formal minicourses on key Sustainable Development issues that will provide background, tools, and approaches for implementation of sustainable development policies. We invite you to propose a course for the Institute. The Ubuntu Village - The Government of South Africa UBUNTU VILLAGE - A place for people of the world to unite on common ground around the nerve centre of the summit where dialogue can be stimulated and opportunities for partnerships maximised. The Virtual Exhibition - Multiple Hosts If you have a sustainable development project to share with the world, you have found the perfect platform. If you want to be a part of the Johannesburg summit, you have found the perfect vehicle. WaterDome - International Water Management Institute, African Water Task Force

The WaterDome will be the main venue during the World Summit where water-stakeholders from public and private organisations will get the opportunity to launch and exhibit their activities, policies, initiatives, new technologies, products and so on. For everyone working in the water sector, for concerned politicians and citizens, for members of the media and for NGOs- the WaterDome is an event you can simply not afford to miss. The World Forum for Sustainable Development - International Research Foundation for Development The world forum of the International Research Foundation for Development will focus on the Implementation of Agenda 21 adopted during the Rio Conference on Environment. We are inviting researchers, policy makers, members of governments and advocacy groups, and all civil society members who are interested and concerned about sustainable development issues to participate in the World Forum. The main objective of this Forum is to contribute to the United Nations effort of ensuring the implementation of the Agenda 21. The World Sustainability Hearings - Leadership for Environment And Development In an effort to increase effective participation of ordinary people in global governance, the World Sustainbility Hearings Project and more than 40 other civil society organizations have teamed up to provide a stage for their testimony at the Johannesburg summit - the World Sustainability Hearing. Scheduled in a separate venue near the Summit, the Hearing will feature day-long explorations of critical issues

IndrodUCTION TO MULTI STAKEHOLDER PROCESS

'Business as usual, government as usual, and perhaps even protest as usual are not giving us the progress needed to achieve sustainable development. Lets see if we cant work together to find better paths forward' (Hohnen 2001). The term multi-stakeholder processes (MSPs) describes processes which aim to bring together all major stakeholders in a new form of communication, decision-finding (and possibly decision-making) on a particular issue. They are also based on recognition of the importance of achieving equity and accountability in communication between stakeholders, involving equitable representation of three or more stakeholder groups and their views. They are based on democratic principles of transparency and participation, and aim to develop partnerships and strengthened networks between stakeholders. MSPs cover a wide spectrum of structures and levels of engagement. They can comprise dialogues on policy or grow into consensus-building, decision-making and implementation of practical solutions. The exact nature of any such process will depend on the issues, its objectives, participants, scope, time lines, etc. Hence, MSPs come in many shapes. Each situation, issue or problem prompts the need for participants to design a process specifically suited to their abilities, circumstances, and needs. However, there are a number of common aspects values and ideologies underlying the concept of MSPs, questions and issues which need to be addressed when designing an MSP, and stages of such a process. Our suggestions form a common yet flexible framework, which we offer for consideration to those who design, monitor and evaluate MSPs.

MSPs are not a universal tool, not a panacea for all kinds of issues, problems and situations. MSPs are akin to a new species in the eco-system of decision-finding and governance structures and processes. They are suitable for those situations where dialogue is possible, where listening, reconciling interests, and integrating views into joint solution strategies seems appropriate and within reach. MSPs have emerged because there is a perceived need for a more inclusive, effective manner for addressing the urgent sustainability issues of our time. A lack of inclusiveness has resulted in many good decisions for which there is no broad constituency, thus making implementation difficult. Because MSPs are new, they are still evolving. Because they are people-centred, people need to take ownership and responsibility for them, using and refining them to serve their own purposes and the larger purposes of the global community of which they are part. [ Up ]

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THE ACHIVEJMENT
The Copenhagan summit on climate change may have ended without adopting a treaty to replace the Kyoto protocol after 2012, but India has reason to be pleased at the outcome. That is because it, along with some other developing countries, has been able to achieve at least part of its objectives. The first achievement has been the BASIC countries - Brazil, South Africa, India and China being able to resist the moves of the developed countries to make the developing countries sign up to a treaty to legally binding emissions targets. The industrialized countries have all along been insisting on other countries signing such a treaty so that they could be bound to such fixed targets without bothering about their development needs. The other achievement has been that the group of four along with 20 other countries prevented the group of over 40 developed countries to fix a peaking year beyond which their carbon emissions would actually be falling. The fact is that the developing countries are far behind as far as the per capita emissions are concerned. It will take them a long time to reach anywhere near the present level of emissions by the developed countries. Fixing a peaking year would therefore impact the economic progress of the developing countries as they could not emit a higher level of carbon after that year. The accord explicitly recognizes that the timeframe for peaking year will be longer in developing countries. There is no mention of a specific peaking year. The first and overriding priority would be given to poverty eradication and livelihood.

The achievement of Copenhagen Summit

Published on: January 05, 2010 at 14:50

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By Ashok Handoo The Copenhagan summit on climate change may have ended without adopting a treaty to replace the Kyoto protocol after 2012, but India has reason to be pleased at the outcome. That is because it, along with some other developing countries, has been able to achieve at least part of its objectives. The first achievement has been the BASIC countries - Brazil, South Africa, India and China - being able to resist the moves of the developed countries to make the developing countries sign up to a treaty to legally binding emissions targets. The industrialized countries have all along been insisting on other countries signing such a treaty so that they could be bound to such fixed targets without bothering about their development needs. The other achievement has been that the group of four along with 20 other countries prevented the group of over 40 developed countries to fix a peaking year beyond which their carbon emissions would actually be falling. The fact is that the developing countries are far behind as far as the per capita emissions are concerned. It will take them a long time to reach anywhere near the present level of emissions by the developed countries. Fixing a peaking year would therefore impact the economic progress of the developing countries as they could not emit a higher level of carbon after that year. The accord explicitly recognizes that the timeframe for peaking year will be longer in developing countries. There is no mention of a specific peaking year. The first and overriding priority would be given to poverty eradication and livelihood. Commodity Data that you can use Another achievement has been in preventing the industrialized countries to have international inspections to ensure that the developing countries are abiding to the targets to be fixed in the proposed treaty. This provision would have impinged upon the sovereignty of the individual countries. A lot of debate has taken place on the provision of consultations and analysis clause of the accord which is being interpreted by some as allowing international inspection. But the Minister of Environment Shri Jairam Ramesh has described it only a nuance. Countrys leading Environmentalist Shri R.K.Pichauri is of the view that this does not give any country the right to inspect Indias domestic efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions which are unsupported. The treaty provides that rules will be framed soon to clearly define guidelines that will respect national sovereignty. The accord has also kept the Kyoto Protocol sacrosanct as future negotiations will be based on the basic principles of the Kyoto Protocol. Unfortunately, the developed countries have been making repeated attempts to nullify the provisions of the Kyoto protocol. Earlier, the US Congress had even refused to ratify it. It binds the developed countries to take deeper cuts in carbon emissions and provide financial and technical support to the developing countries to enable them to reduce their carbon emissions. This has not been happening despite long drawn negotiations on a regular basis

The four emerging countries in the BASIC group have thus succeeded in safeguarding their national interests. Specific provisions have been made in the accord to ensure that national sovereignty is protected. The last minute accord, in which the US and the four emerging economies along with over 20 other countries played a major role, has taken care of all the above concerns. It was reached after it became clear that the 194-nation conference was in danger of a total failure. And considering the huge expectations from the participating countries, highlighted by demonstrations across the world to urge the leaders to act, it would have been much more disastrous if nothing had been done. Certainly, the outcome could have been much more impressive. As Shri Jairam Ramesh told the Parliament the BASIC group has emerged as a powerful force in climate change negotiations, in the face of relentless pressure from the developed countries. At the same time Indias approach has been recognized as constructive. This has been established by the fact that the conference took note of the Accord though it could not adopt it for want of a consensus. The Conference, as a matter of rule, functions on the basis of consensus in taking decisions. The Copenhagen summit could not conclude negotiations under the Bali Action Plan (BAP) and the Kyoto Protocol, the treaty that is currently in operation to deal with climate change issues. It is now proposed to be completed by the end of 2010. The accord sets the goals of keeping the rise in global temperature within 2 degrees Celsius to be able to deal with the challenge of global warming. It promises 100 billion dollars for poor nations that have to bear the brunt of the fallout of global warming. The UN Secretary General, Mr. Ban ke Moon has described the accord as a significant achievement. He said it fulfills the parameters he had sought, even though the end result fell far short of even the most modest expectations voiced before the meeting. The UN would now set a high level panel on development and climate change, early next year. Some developing countries did express a feeling of being left out in reaching the accord but the Minister clarified India will, as always, work with the group of 77 countries together with China-in conducting the climate change negotiations as a block. The conference also witnessed some wrangling between various countries, each blaming the other for blocking a deal. But the real answer to the problem lies in the developed countries recognizing the compulsions of the developing countries and taking bigger initiatives. At the same time the developing countries too have to take a serious note of the global threat on account of climate change. Time is running out for all countries to act and halt climate change. Journey on the road to Mexico, where the next conference will be held in December 2010, has to begin right away. (PIB Features)