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Forests – Sustainable Development Dialogues 5, Rio+20, 17.06.2012.

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. James Chao – CCTV
Mr. Anders Hildeman – Global Forestry Manager, IKEA of Sweden AB
Mr. André Giacini de Freitas – Executive-Director, Forest Stewardship Council
Dr. Bertha Becker – Professor, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, UFRJ
Mr. Christian Del Valle – Founder, Manager, Althelia Climate Fund
Mr. Estebancio Castro Diaz – Executive-Secretary, Alliance of Indigenous and Tribal Peoples of Tropical Forests
Mr. Guilherme Leal – Founder, CEO, Natura Cosmeticos
Dr. Julia Marton-Lefevre – Director-General, International Union for Conservation of Nature
Dr. Klaus Töpfer – Founder, Executive Director, Institute for – Advanced Sustainability Studies
Dr. Lu Zhi – Director, Center for Nature and Society, Beijing University
Dr. Yolanda Kakabadse – President, World Wide Fund for Nature
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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:

◊ Support common framework conditions for forest certification and include it in the Rio+20 framework of action.
◊ Protect language diversity to preserve traditional knowledge and support biodiversity conservation.
◊ Organize a UN Commission to mobilize the necessary public and private finance to implement REDD+ actions globally.
◊ Entrench the principles, inclusion, transparency and accountability of local peoples in forest governance.
◊ Invest in locally controlled forestry; promoting resource rights, organization, business capacity and fair deals for local people.
◊ Value forest carbon from forest plantations in the context of the green economy.
◊ Governments should support agroforestry as a promising alternative to balance the need for food and fuelwood whilst reducing pressure on natural forests.
◊ Restore Forestland and Mangrove Zones.
◊ Promote science, technology, innovation and traditional knowledge in order to face forests main challenge: how to turn them productive without destroying them.
◊ Restore 150 million hectares of deforested and degraded lands by 2020.
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Final recommendations

◊ Restore 150 million hectares of deforested and degraded lands by 2020.
◊ Promote science, technology, innovation and traditional knowledge in order to face forests main challenge: how to turn them productive without destroying them.
◊ Zero Net Deforestation by 2020, respecting the rights and knowledge of peoples living in and from the forests and responding to their sustainable development needs.
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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.

Se samtlige ti indlæg med Sustainable Development Dialogues.

Se øvrige blog-indlæg om Rio+20.

Rio+20 Sustainable Development Dilaogues Fact Sheet (pdf).