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Coalitions and cooperations:
- All Win Network
- Antroposphere Inst.
- ARINA
- Be Commons
- Centre for Global Negotiations
- COMMONS CAMPUS
- Development4all
- E2Us
- Essence Admin
- Essence Sum
- Global Commons Trust
- Inst. for Planetary Synthesis
- Kosmos Journal
- Nature College
- One Childs Village
- On the Commons
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P2P Foundation
- Recyclus
- Share the World’s Resources
- StarrPort
- SUM Foundation
- Summit Speak,
- Trees Have Rights Too
- URSULA
- VipCure
- Wiser Earth
- World Citizens Action
- Association of World Citizens
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Note: Member States Delegations, United Nations entities and Major Groups are kindly reminded to send in statements made at the 2nd Intersessional to uncsd2012@un.org, for posting on the conference website.
Further Reports and Images, click:
Durban, Dec. 16 - Friday afternoon at the UN Climate Talks, a member of 350.org team in Durban walked into the main conference center hallway, and in the tradition of Occupy movements around the world, yelled "Mic check!" - report ...
Protecting Marine Life in Guinea Bissau
UNEP Youth and Green Economy
Tackling climate change from Gigaton Awards to US
Sustainability the clock around
Dec. 16, 2011:
ALL SUMMARIES OF THIS DAY, 14 PAGES TEXT
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10. SUMMARY 9.30 - 9.50 - 10.05
Briefing about RIO+20 logistics, locations, signing in, the City, planning, ...
TEXT - word .doc 10, VOICE - play the recording 10.1, Q&A - play the recording 10.2
MAP & HOTELS - google.html 10
11. SUMMARY 10.10 - 10.45
EU, Kazachstan, India, Major group of industry, New Zealand, Iceland
TEXT - word .doc 11, VOICE - play the recording 11
12. SUMMARY 10.45 - 11.30
Mexico, Farmers Major group, Chili, Switzerland, Republic of Korea, Ukraine, Indig. People Major groups, China, Saudi Arabia, Indonesia, Tjad, Cambodia, Bolivia, Australia, Japan
TEXT - word .doc 12, VOICE - play the recording 12
13. SUMMARY 11.30 - 12.10
Canada, Inter governmental, USA, Tunesia, Namibia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Germany
TEXT - word .doc 13, VOICE - play the recording 13
14. SUMMARY 16.00 - 16.20
Montenegro, Gabon, Thailand, Norway, FAO
TEXT - word .doc 14, VOICE - play the recording 14
15. SUMMARY 16.30 - 16.50
Mr. Sha Zukang, Zero-Draft,
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Zero-Draft - a.s.a.p.
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Dec. 15, 2011:
ALL SUMMARIES OF THIS DAY, 17 PAGES TEXT
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1. SUMMARY 10.00 - 10.45
Opening - word .doc 1, VOICE - play the recording 1 (quality problems solft half way).
NGO statement this afternoon, u.c. - NGO statement this afternoon, u.c.
2. SUMMARY 10.45 - 11.30
G77 and China, Argentina, Tanzania - African group,
Europe
TEXT- word .doc 2, VOICE - play the recording 2
3. SUMMARY 11.30 - 12.15
Nepal, Nw Zealand/ pac.Small island, Lebanon - Arab world, AOSIS, Caribean community
TEXT
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UPDATES FROM www.stakeholderforum.org/sf/outreach/index.php/cop17day12home
Elizabeth May: The price for Canada’s withdrawl from Kyoto
4. SUMMARY 12.15 - 13.05
Sascha Gabizon, Women in Europe for a Common Future (left) and
Gisber Glasser, speaking for the Science and Technology Community
TEXT - word .doc 4, VOICE - play the recording 4
5. SUMMARY 15.00 - 15.45
Mayor group: Science and Technological Community, Bolivia, African group/ one single voice, Trade Unions, Peru, ???, USA
TEXT
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VOICE - play the recording 5 (needs adjustment)
6. SUMMARY 15.45 - 16.15
Nepal, Japan, Russia, Cambodia, Major group, Cuba
TEXT
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VOICE - play the recording 6
7. SUMMARY 16.15 - 16.45
Jodan, Trade Union, India, Sudan, Norway, ??, Kenia
TEXT
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VOICE - play the recording 7
NL - Dutch Roadmap: www.pbl.nl/publicaties/2011/naar-een-schone-economie-in-2050-routes-verkend
8. SUMMARY 16.45 - 17.15
Costa Rica, Ghana, Italia, Indonesia, Brazil, Ecuador, Chili
TEXT
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VOICE - play the recording 8
9. SUMMARY 17.15 - 18.10
Colombia, Israel, Australia, Zceck republic, Singapore, Burkina Faso, Uganda, Nicaragua, Iran
TEXT
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VOICE - play the recording 9
USA - Mayor Bloomberg Speaks on Sustainable Cities at the 2nd Rio+20 Intersessional - Bloomberg
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Report: Evaluation Dec. 15/16 UN Commons Strategy Group and UN Team next steps
By Lisinka Ulatowska
Dear UN Team,
This time we had a great turn out with Jon and Scot joining us for a day each. Such diversity and yet unity of purpose!
Congratulations on a job well done! It has been a joy to work with you and feel your support both for our common vision, and your allegiance to the team as a whole, while at the same time each of you built on your own strengths and took the lead in those areas.
I very much appreciated how each communicated with the rest of the team via Twitter and via Emile and Letta in our “Governance Center” of the Instant Action Network. Letta and Emile played a central coordination role. And all team members at our final debriefing on the 16th expressed their gratefulness to the periodic reports. The general consensus was:”They were a huge contribution to our work.
It was a wonderful feeling to know that in Emile, I had someone who could look at letters knowledgeably and take care of details I/we might not have noticed before sending the letters out to the Ambassadors during the meetings.
The team meetings within the UN inbetween sessions were particularly helpful. I find that with your input we have made a fundamental shift in our understanding of our roles.
Our job, as I see it:
I. Showing the need for a shift to a commons based global economy and all-win community; and
II. The need for input by all people and communities;
III. Clarifying the indispensability of the commons structure since it lies at the very heart of these two shifts, and
IV. Providing action plans (measures) to help to implement commons-based policy;
V. Creating partnerships with other organizations for synergistic collaboration to the goals we share and
VI. Doing this
a. with: with Governments, UN Secretariat and MGs; and
b. as a part of a team in the knowledge that together we can achieve much more than any one of us could achieve alone, if we build on team members’ strengths and help to cover our weaknesses together.
We each approached government delegates as part of the team yet using our own personal/organizations perspectives to add to the impact of the whole.
Through our collaboration I have learned a great deal. Thank you for the following lessons:
- Broad policy statements, explanations and information about
- the commons,
- advantages of a commons-based economy to achieve the aims of the conference, and
- measures governments can use to make the necessary shifts
are very valuable tools.
2. It is important to build on the documents we have, to expand on these and use these as tools to support those (organizations and Governments) who are interested in a commons-based approach.
For this reason I have approached Gina to ask her if she is willing to create a commons booklet from the material that has gradually been whittled down from our many hand-outs, via the compilation document to the initially three—now 5—diverse letters, 3 of which we have already sent out to all heads of state and government and NYC-based UN ambassadors. In these there is considerable overlap and the measures are bound to be gratefully received.
- The communication vehicle must be powered by
- reaching deeply into the hearts and minds of those we communicate with;
- genuine concern for our planet and for those we communicate with;
- love; and
- a mutual desire to search for solutions.
These elements in our communication with governments promise to be effective tools to bring about deep-seated change: change in our own understanding and in that of those we spoke with. Here, Kathleen your leadership role is very welcome as a part of our team.
- Approaching key delegates (EU, US, G77) as a group of people from diverse organizations works well: they become the center of our attention. At the same time, each of you had your own niche: Adero, you took the lead with the youth group without any hesitation and you showed to me one of the greatest strengths any team member can have: You called for help when you needed it. That inspires confidence. Each of us must be able to ask for help if we are to function as a team member.
Liam, you on the other hand were totally new to the process and stuck close to me and that was a great support to me. At the same time as you felt more confident, you took the ball and ran with it. You brought in your own lighthearted and heart-felt connection with the delegates we talked to and then went and made your own connections. I hope that you will build on those connections when at home to do outreach for the commons, even if it is just a few friendly words and sending the Sudan, for instance, the materials we have been passing out.
- As Liam pointed out: The better prepared we are the easier it is to focus on the matters at hand. I was grateful to Adero, Jon and Quisia who went to the stakeholder’s meeting. I’m afraid, I did not know about this meeting until both I and Liam had bought our non-refundable tickets.
- I very much need support gathering relevant information and documentation necessary for meetings to enable the team as a whole to function more effectively.
Letta and Emile have mentioned that they are willing to continue to play a central governance role at the upcoming formal informals. I also hope that other team members will be able to stay with this process and join us at the formal informals in feb, march and april and at the meetings in Brazil in June. Emile and Bety, our representative in Rio, are going after an apartment for the month of June to house 6 people. Please let Emile know if you want to avail yourself of this wonderful opportunity.
It is important to meet in the first week of January as a team to organize our strategy for February.
Anthony, would you mind setting up a calendar so that members can state their availability?
I shall be in touch with the UN outcome document of our last meeting when it comes out at the end of this month. Once we have that we can prepare a joint report to our larger networks on what we have done so far.
Very happy holidays and all the best in the coming year.
A warm, grateful Christmas hug to each of you!
Lisinka
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Dr. Lisinka Ulatowska
UN Rep. Association of World Citizens;
Institute for Planetary Synthesis
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From: Lisinka Ulatowska
To: IPS Geneva; Rene Wadlow; P v Monsjou; James Quilligan; Mary Beth Steisslinger; Julie Lira; Jay Bender; Anthony Robinson; Glans Van Essen; Letta Wwagenborg; Liam Whitlock; Quisia Gonzalez; Rob Wheeler; Adero Davis; Jon Love; Scott Carlin; Kathleen Quain
Sent: Friday, December 23, 2011 5:21 PM
Subject: UN Team next steps
“Let us not for a moment lose sight of the gravity of the task before us. There are high expectations for Rio+20. We must resolve to deliver. Failure is not an option. At Rio+20 we must chart a clear course to the future we want,” said Rio+20 Conference Secretary-General and DESA’s Under-Secretary-General Sha Zukang as the 2nd Intersessional Meeting of Rio+20 opened today.
As Member States and other stakeholders gathered for this preparatory meeting taking place in New York on 15-16 December, Mr. Sha underscored: “This is a critical meeting. We have important work to do. The Conference is only six months away.”
Today’s meeting will be the first step towards the negotiations, which will start with a “zero-draft outcome document”, combining the suggestions, comments, proposals and ideas of 672 contributors, including Member States, international agencies, non-governmental organizations and political groups.
We are all in this together…
Freya Seath, Bioregional
Over the last two days at the UNCSD 2nd Intersessional on Rio+20 at UN Headquarters here in New York negotiations began between member states on the Zero Draft compilation text, and attempts will begin to condense the rather extensive 6,000+ pages of submissions from governments, Major Groups and UN agencies into a coherent document that can deliver a strong outcome at Rio+20.
After a year of engaging in this process, we are pleased to now see a number of specific outcomes gaining traction and hopefully qualifying for a highly prized place in the final Rio+20 zero draft to be discussed by member states next June in Rio de Janeiro. These include Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and green economy roadmaps or action plans, which in our view can focus the broad debate at a practical level, going some way to frame how we can implement a fair and just green economy.
This Intersessional meeting also has the highest NGO participation in the Rio+20 process to date- more than 400 organisations have registered and yesterday the Major Group meeting had standing room only. There is truly a sense of expectation at the start of this second phase of the Rio+20 process, all stakeholders are determinedly seeking a strong and ambitious outcome and want to play their part.
In an informal consultation yesterday with Ambassador Andre Correa do Lago, Head of the Brazilian Delegation, the Ambassador said ‘civil society gave a special weight to the Rio Earth Summit 20 years ago… and at Rio+20, civil society participation is 1000 times more important- governments can’t do it all!’ This idea of strong partnership and civil society engagement was also echoed this morning by the Global Sustainability Panel (GSP) Secretariat who acknowledged this participation as key to any successful outcomes from Rio+20. There really is a strong sense that we are all in this together. (Outreach)
