Sustainable Development Dialogues 3 – Fighting Powerty

16. juni 2012

Sustainable development for fighting poverty – Sustainable Development Dialogues 3, Rio+20, 16.06.2012.

Link til efterfølgende pressekonference.

Som del af Rio+20-konferencenen afholdes der i dagene 16.-19. juni en meget spændende serie af Sustainable Development Dialogues, som prøver at nå ind til benet af begrebet bæredygtig udvikling.
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Participants

Mr. Fred de Sam Lazaro – PBS
Dr. Boaventura de Sousa Santos – Professor, University of Coimbra
Dr. Judith Sutz – Professor, University of the Republic
Ms. Lourdes Huanca Atencio – President, National Federation of Women Rural Workers, Artisans, Indigenous and Wage Workers of Peru (Femucarinap)
Dr. Manish Bapna – President, interim, World Resources Institute (WRI)
Dr. Márcia Lopes – Professor, Brazilian Former Minister for Development and Fight against Hunger
Mr. Marcos Terena – President, Intertribal Committee
Dr. Pavan Sukhdev – Founder and CEO, Gist Advisory Private Ltd.
Ms. Severn Cullis-Suzuki – Board of Directors, David Suzuki Foundation
Mr. Victor Trucco – Honorary President, Argentine Association of No-Till Producers
Dr. Yang Tuan – Director, Center for Study of Social Policies, Chinese Academy for Social Sciences
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Top 10 Recommendations

For hver af de 10 dialoger er der forud opstillet 10 anbefalinger, hvor dialogerne har til formål at indskrænke antallet til tre. Den ene anbefaling fastlægges ved online afstemning med inddragelse af de virtuelle deltagere (typisk mere end 1 mio. afgivne stemmer), den anden fastlægges af panelet ved dialogernes afslutning, den tredje afgøres ligeledes ved afstemning fra salen.

De 10 anbefalinger er:

◊ Promote global education to eradicate poverty and to achieve sustainable development.
◊ Promote grassroot innovations to fight poverty and achieve sustainable development.
◊ Ensure universal health coverage to achieve sustainable development.
◊ Reduce poverty by promoting biocultural diversity, linguistic rights, intercultural dialogue and by means of a neutral international language.
◊ Integrate social equity in the design and delivery of public health services and systems.
Ensure economic empowerment to promote self-reliance.
◊ Enhance south-south (developing countries) cooperation in clean technology proliferation and development.
◊ Consolidate the principle of non-regression as a key principle for environmental and social policies.
◊ Promote the use and transfer of latest technology as a means to advance sustainable development.
◊ Advance gender and sexual orientation rights as an instrument to promote sustainable development.
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Final recommendations

◊ Promote global education to eradicate poverty and to achieve sustainable development.
◊ Ensure universal health coverage to achieve sustainable development.
◊ Promote equitable access to information, participation, representation and justice in local, national and global level decision-making on sustainable development and promote grassroots innovation.
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De 10 Sustainable Development Dialogues

De i alt ti dialoger er en enestående mulighed for at høre begavede mennesker fra hele verden reflektere over bæredygtig udvikling – hvad det indebærer, og hvordan den kan implementeres. Men FNs webcast-system er ganske omfattende, så jeg har lagt den engelske udgave af de ti Sustainable Development Dialogues ind på bloggen her:

1) Sustainable development as an answer to the economic and financial crises.
2) Unemployment, decent work and migrations.
3) Sustainable development for fighting poverty.
4) The economics of SD, including sustainable patterns of production and consumption.
5) Forests.
6) Food and nutrition security.
7) Sustainable energy for all.
8) Water.
9) Sustainable cities and innovation.
10) Oceans.