Briefing for Delegates
2nd PrepCom UNCSD Rio+20 / March 2011
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Rio: From Earth Summit to Earth Grab?
At Rio+20 governments can create a more responsive and representative Multilateral
Environmental Network … or enthrone a new Environmental Empire....
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Briefing for Delegates
2nd PrepCom UNCSD Rio+20 / March 2011
1
Rio: From Earth Summit to Earth Grab?
At Rio+20 governments can create a more responsive and representative Multilateral
Environmental Network … or enthrone a new Environmental Empire.
Three issues:
An Earth Grab
The rushed negotiating timetable could
lead to…
…Or an Earth Agenda
That is participatory and precautionary
and…
Green
Governance
Construction of a more centralized,
pseudo-UN, green governance
mechanism, that privileges the private
sector and Bretton Woods institutions
while disenfranchising much of the
global South as it commandeers control
over the environment, natural resources
(including agriculture) and climate
change;
Creates a new, broad, participatory and
transparent UN environmental network
within which South governments, and civil
society, can address the full range of
climate and environmental issues now
managed by 500 disparate agreements and
institutions; and … welcome
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