Up Coming Events @ Rio+20
Confirmed list of events organized by Centre for Environment and Development with Partners of Peoples’ Sustainability Treaties and The Widening Circle
(contact Uchita de Zoysa uchita@sltnet.lk)
- 1. Peoples’ Sustainability Treaties[Read more] (13th June)
Wednesday, 13 June 2012 – 15:30 to 17:00hrs – Room: T-2 (Rio Centro, Brazil)
Lead organizer: Centre for Environment and Development
Contact: Uchita de Zoysa (uchita@sltnet.lk)
Peoples’ Sustainability Treaties are proposed as a series of independent collective agreements produced by representatives of major groups and stakeholders of civil society , with the intention of being drafted and published prior to the official UNCSD2012. They are planned as the alternative content outcome by civil society to reflect the public interest and aspirations of a sustainable world, and will serve as collection of proposals for governments negotiating for official outcomes at the Summit. CSOs will engage in a complimentary process to UNCSD2012 with the rationale of producing ‘Treaties’ a ‘Declaration’ and an ‘Action Plan,’ which are to represent and demonstrate the collective visions of the global people and transcend into a Global Movement.
Thursday, 14 June 2012 -11:30 to 13:00hrs – Room: T-9 (Rio Centro, Brazil)
Lead organizer: Centre for Ethics and Value Inquiry (CEVI)
Partner: Centre for Environment and Development
Contact: Gaston Meskens (gaston.meskens@theacademia.org)
The side event will focus on the normative reference base for a human rights-based approach to sustainable development governance and make suggestions for required institutional settings and legislation. Normative considerations will be enriched with critical policy analysis and intelligence drawn from the practices the contributing organisations are undertaking in their various action fields. These practices reach from grass-root level work with indigenous communities over policy and law related research and outreach to critical philosophy on global ethics (and back). The event will stage six contributions and organise interactive discussion with participants on issues related to human equality and sustainable development. Based on the contributions and the discussion, a joint reflection document will be prepared as information for civil society and as input towards and beyond the official Rio+20 conference.
Sunday, 17 June 2012 – 17:30 to 19:00hrs – Room: T-9 (Rio Centro, Brazil)
Lead organizer: Centre for Environment and Development
Contact: Uchita de Zoysa (uchita@sltnet.lk) or Orion Kriegman (okriegman@tellus.org)
The planetary challenge is urgent and systemic. The world confronts twenty-first century perils hobbled by twentieth century mindsets and institutions, a dangerous gap that bodes ill. A just and sustainable civilization is still possible. We can forge a path to a different future: a world of lives enriched and nature resilient. A fragmented movement is incapable of systemic transformation. Civil society efforts are vital, but lack an overarching vision and strategy matched to the complexity of the historic task. A critical social actor is missing from the global stage. The transition awaits the awakening of a vast cultural and political movement engaged on all fronts in a supranational project of global citizenship. The global citizens movement will be adaptive and polycentric. The living movement will evolve as a dispersed ecology of associations, spawning centers of influence in every nation and community.
- 4. Campaign for Advancing a Global Citizens Movement: Widening The Circles (19th June)
(Dialogue by Invitation only: Recommendations for participation are accepted)
Organizer: The Widening Circle (TWC) – http://www.wideningcircle.org/
Date: 19 June 2012 (Tuesday)
Time: 6-10pm (Dialogue followed by a networking event)
Venue: Clube de Engenharia (Engineering Club) Av. Rio Branco, 124- 18º – Sala 01 Centro, Rio de Janeiro.
Rio+20 provide us an opportunity to regroup towards advancing a Global Citizens Movement. This Dialogue & Networking Event will bring together a select group of persons and organizations from across the world already active in advancing a global citizens movement towards widening the circles. TWC is not the GCM! TWC’s mission is to enlarge and strengthen a coherent GCM. Toward this end it nurtures the idea and practice of global citizenship, promotes united action in civil society by articulating a shared vision and advancing a common strategy. As a complex cultural and political rising, the GCM will have multiple organizational and informal expressions. Correspondingly, TWC is structured as a set of globally-allied semi-autonomous regional or issue circles, linked through representative global coordinating circles and support circles. As more circles form and new participants take ownership, TWC will adapt its program.
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