Beyond Rio+20. Governance for a green economy.

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Un groupe d'experts provenant du monde universitaire, des gouvernements et de la société civile exposent leurs idées sur la gouvernance en vue d'une économie verte. Les thèmes abordés sont les cadres institutionnels, la responsabilité environnementale, le développement économique, la gouvernance du commerce international, la consommation, la gestion des ressources, les énergies décarbonées, la gouvernance de la forêt, la transition vers une économie verte impliquant les citoyens, la société civile et le secteur privé.
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• Environnement
• Économie de l'environnement
• Commerce international
• Forêt
• Secteur privé

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• Publié par: temis-developpement-durable
• Publié le: 01 janvier 2011
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Beyond Rio+20:    Governance for a Green Economy

Pardee Center task ForCe rePort / March 2011

Beyond Rio+20: Governance for a Green Economy

Co-conveners Henrik Selin Adil Najam

task Force Members Tom Bigg Elizabeth DeSombre Mark Halle Hans Hoogeveen Saleemul Huq Bernice Lee David Levy Ricardo Meléndez-Ortiz Stacy VanDeever Patrick Verkooijen Paul Wapner

Occasionally, the Pardee Center convenes grous of eerts on secific olicy uestions to identify viale olicy otions for the longerrange future his series of aers, Pardee Center Task Force Reports,resents the findings of these delierations as a contriution of eert noledge to discussions aout imortant issues for hich decisions made today ill influence longerrange human develoment eries Editor: Professor dil aam

he rederic  Pardee Center for the tudy of the ongerRange uture at Boston niversity convenes and conducts interdiscilinary, olicyrelevant, and futureoriented research that can contriute to longterm imrovements in the human condition hrough its rograms of research, ulications, and events, the Pardee Center sees to identify, anticiate, and enhance the longterm otential for human rogress, in all its various dimensions

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table oF Contents

iv Acronyms and Abbreviations

v Prefacey dil aam

 Co-conveners’ Synthesis Making Sustainable Development Real nstitutional Architectures for a reen conomy  y dil aam and enri elin

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lobal nvironmental overnance for a e reen conomy  y Eliaeth R eomre

Accountability in the reen conomy  y ar alle

Development overnance and the reen conomy A Matter of ife and Death2  y om Bigg

overnance of nternational rade for the reen conomy  y Ricardo eléndeOrti

Consuming nvironments ptions and Choices for st Century Citiens  y tacy  aneveer

Managing the Challenges of nterlocking Resources  y Bernice ee

Climate and nergy  y aleemul u

 ransforming lobal orest overnance   y ans oogeveen and Patric erooien

 ransitioning to a reen conomy Citiens and Civil Society   y Paul aner

 Private Sector overnance for a Sustainable conomy A Strategic Approach   y avid evy

  

ask orce Members 

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aCronyMs and abbreviations

A Aid-for-rade ASC rail South Africa ndia and China RC rail Russia ndia and China CD Convention on iological Diversity CCSR Civilian Corps Service Responsibility CDP Carbon Disclosure Proect CS Convention on nternational rade in ndangered Species CRC Corporate Responsibility Charter CSD Commission on Sustainable Development PA nvironmental Protection Agency A eneral Agreement on ariffs and rade DP ross Domestic Product  lobal nvironment acility  lobal orest overnance R lobal Reporting nitiative A nternational nergy Agency M nternational Monetary und RA nternational Reneable nergy Agency s on-governmental organiations DA verseas Development Assistance CD rganisation for conomic Co-operation and Development RMs Rare earth metals SC Securities and change Commission CD nited ations Conference on nvironment and Development CSD nited ations Conference on Sustainable Development P nited ations nvironment Programme CCC nited ations rameork Convention on Climate Change P orld ntellectual Property rganiation  orld rade rganiation

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Preface

Beyond Rio+20: Governance for a Green Economyis the second inThe Pardee Center Task Force Reportsseries, and, as it haens, the timing for this reort could not have een etter Recent and ucoming international meetings convened y the nited ations are focused on the challenges of actualiing the romise of sustainale develoment, of recreating a orld economy that is “greener” and more sustainale, and identifying institutional frameors that could hel achieve this vision aring the 20th anniversary of the historic Rio Earth ummit of 2, the 202  Conference on ustainale eveloment C—oularly called Rio+20—has set for itself the goal of delierating uon and designing such an architecture hisPardee Center Task Force Report  is a contriution to these delierations

e hoe that the ideas resented in thisPardee Center Task Force Reportill ro vide international decisionmaers at the nited ations and elsehere a fresh and diverse set of ersectives concerning the ongoing uest for institutional and gover nance frameors that can hel foster sustainale develoment gloally Beteen no and Rio+20, this very toic ill e deated many times and in many venues e hoe that our early attemt to synthesie some of the lessons from the ast deates and to resent some fresh suggestions for future directions ill hel insire and inform the imortant decisions that ill e made in the net many months

he Pardee Center invited an eminent grou of thoughtleaders from academia, civil society, and the dilomacy arena to thin aout hy e face the institutional challenges e do and aout the tye of old actions and ideas that may move us toards an institutional frameor that is more conducive to fostering sustain ale develoment his reort resents the results of these delierations his Pardee Center as orce as convened y Professor enri elin and myself he memershi of the as orce as urosely interdiscilinary, international, and intersectoral ll memers of the Pardee Center as orce met at Pardee

ouse on etemer 0, 200, here initial drafts of their essays ere resented and discussed he grou also delierated uon the overall trends and findings emerging from the discussions and this ecame the asis of the synthesis from the as orce coconveners n addition to the coconveners’ synthesis of the ey ideas emerging from the meeting, this reort also includes the thoughtrovoing essays ritten y each of the eerts on the Pardee Center as orce on different asects of the challenge Beteen them, these eert essays cature a rich and refreshing diversity of ersectives that e hoe olicymaers ill find useful

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he mission of the Boston niversity rederic  Pardee Center for the tudy of the ongerRange uture is to convene and conduct interdiscilinary, olicy relevant, and futureoriented research that can contriute to longterm imrove ments in the human condition s art of fulfilling its mandate, the Pardee Center occasionally convenes grous of eerts on ertinent olicy issues ith longerrange imacts hePardee Center Task Force Reportsresent the findings and delierations of these grous in a format designed to sea to the concerns of olicy ractitioners and olicy scholars he vies eressed in these reorts are alays those of the individual authors and do not reresent the vies of their home institutions, of the Pardee Center, or of Boston niversity

hisPardee Center Task Force Reportis ust one of several ays the Pardee Center is contriuting to the delierations on Rio+20 in articular, and gloal governance in general he Center also ulishes thestainae eveopment nsihtseries of olicy riefs on ehalf of the ustainale eveloment nol edge Partnershi P ith the nited ations, and has rovided a series of eert consultations at recent meetings of the  Commission on ustainale eveloment C on toics related to Rio+20 rearations

s coconveners, Professor enri elin and  are deely grateful to all the mem ers of the as orce for the time, enthusiasm, and effort they have devoted to this reort, roducing an ecellent document on a comle set of issues in a short eriod of time e ould lie to esecially than Professor aria vanova of the niversity of assachusetts at Boston for her articiation in art of the as orce meeting and sharing her insightful ersectives and eertise e ould also lie to than Cynthia Baraatt and Ellie Perins for assisting ith the editing and ulication of this reort, and Elaine eng for heling organie the as orce meeting s irector of the Pardee Center,  ould lie to eress my secial gratitude to my colleague enri elin for heling conceive and imle ment the idea of this Pardee Center as orce is atient yet ersistent leader shi of this effort as crucial to ringing it to comletion

et me end y congratulating all the as orce memers for having roduced a timely and intellectually stimulating reort  am certain this reort ill contriute significantly to the delierations going into Rio+20, and  hoe that it ill also have imacts ell eyond that

Adil Najam The Frederick  Pardee Professor of Goa Pic Poicy irector, The Frederick  Pardee Center for the tdy of the onerRane Ftre   Boston niversity vi    

Co-conveners’ synthesis   Making sustainable development r eal: institutional architectures for a Green e conomy

dil aam and enri elin

On ecemer 2, 200, the nited ations General ssemly adoted Resolu tion RE2 to organie the nited ations Conference on ustainale eveloment C in Rio de aneiro, Brail he General ssemly identi fied to themes of focus for the conference: irst, “a green economy ithin the contet of sustainale develoment and overty eradication” and second, “an institutional frameor for sustainale develoment”  s in all  rocesses, oth themes ere etensively—maye ecessively—negotiated and cature a measure of intentional amiguity and readth to satisfy a very road range of sometimes contradicting and conflicting vieoints and interests he com rehensive rearations for the C are currently under ay, involving a multitude of governments and staeholders

C ill e one in a series of  conferences that aim to focus gloal oliti cal attention toards the need for olicy interventions in the areas of environ ment and develoment, no commonly called sustainale develoment ar ing the 20th anniversary of the landmar “Rio Earth ummit” of 2 the nited ations Conference on Environment and eveloment, held in Rio de aneiro— hich itself mared the 20th anniversary of the eually landmar tocholm conference of 2 the nited ations Conference on the uman Environment, held in tocholm, eden—the ucoming conference is eing oularly referred to as “Rio+20” his title emodies the hoe that C ill attract the same attention and imort as its to illustrious redecessors et, other confer ences ith similar goals—for eamle, the less distinguished 2002 conference in ohannesurg dued “Rio+0” the orld ummit on ustainale eveloment or the no largelyforgotten “tocholm+0” held in 2 in airoi, enya—did not live u to their on asirations 2

C ill see to uild on a ide range of ast olitical and organiational achievements, ut also, more imortantly, see to accelerate rogress here a long

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line of earlier international efforts have come u ell short his is not ust an eer cise in olitics, ut of critical imortance to eole and societies all over the orld as ell as future generations he to themes ere selected y the nited ations General ssemly recisely ecause they are vieed as areas here a there is a need for gloal clarity and agreement and  there is a erceived otential for real change if, indeed, further clarity and agreement are achieved

hose attending C—hich is technically not yet called a “summit” ith heads of state and government in attendance, ut is liely to ecome one—ill see to arrive at gloal agreement and decisions ithin the concetual frame   or of sustainale develoment n fact, that is already aed into the name of the conference ndeed, from the 2 Earth ummit onards, the entire gloal conversation has revolved around the desire to ut meaning into the term “sus tainale develoment” f those government delegates and staeholder reresen tatives ho go to Rio in 202 can succeed in constructing a gloal ne deal for sustainale develoment, their time and effort ill e ell sent and Rio+20 ill e rememered in the same reath and ith the same reverence as the 2  Earth ummit and the 2 tocholm meeting

the Pardee Center Green eC onoMy task ForCe s an intellectual contriution to the Rio+20 rearatory rocess and C, the Boston niversity rederic  Pardee Center for the tudy of the onger Range uture convened a small tas force of eerts to discuss the role of institutions in the actualiation of a green economy in the contet of sustainale develoment s coconveners of this grou, e rought together stellar eerts from academia, government, and civil society and ased them to outline ideas aout hat the orld has learned aout institutions for sustainale develoment from the ast, and hat e can roose aout the governance challenges and oortunities for the continuous develoment of a green economy in the future

emers of the Pardee Center as orce met at Boston niversity on e temer 0, 200, to discuss the first drafts of the aers collected in this reort and to delierate on the trends in governance and institutional frameors that might inform and influence the decisions to e made at Rio+20 and eyond as orce emers included: r om Bigg nternational nstitute for Environment and eveloment, Prof Eliaeth eomre ellesley College, ar alle nternational nstitute for ustainale eveloment, r ans oogeveen utch inistry of griculture, ature and ood uality, r aleemul u nternational Center for Climate Change and eveloment, Bernice ee

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Chatham ouse, the Royal nstitute for nternational ffairs, Prof avid evy niversity of assachusetts at Boston, Ricardo eléndeOrti nternational Centre for rade and ustainale eveloment, Prof dil aam Pardee Center, Boston niversity, Prof enri elin Pardee Center, Boston niversity, Prof tacy  aneveer niversity of e amshire, r Patric erooien orld Ban, and Prof Paul aner merican niversity

he as orce memers ere encouraged to thin ig and thin old e ased them to e innovative in their ideas, and maye even a little irreverent and rovocative e have not tried to force a consensus far from it, e have encouraged a variety and diversity of vies or as the idea to define a set of recise “recommendations” that, after all, is the or of the rearatory negotia tors eteen no and 202 Rather, e set the goal of identifying road themes and trends in the area of gloal governance and institutional frameors for sustainale develoment and the actualiation of a green economy e laced a remium on “neness” of ideas nstead of shacling as orce memers in reetitive deates on the minutia of hat may or may not e done y or to a articular  agency, or hat a green economy is, or ho the eisting system can e teaed at its erihery, e ased them to identify ey lessons that have the greatest otential to trigger old and systemic change—not ust at Rio+20, ut eyond that e ased them to consider trends and ideas that match the scale of the challenges that the lanet faces today

e realie that the olitical ill for imlementing some of the ideas resented in this reort may not yet e availale e also realie that many of these ideas are old, ut not necessarily ne But our goal here is to lay out a ig icture vie for Rio+20 negotiators and to articulate old visions of the gloal amition that they should e addressing Converting this into a set of ractical olicies and secific measures is a net ste for the international community e hoe that this contri ution from the Pardee Center as orce can e of assistance in this endeavor

his oening chater rovides our the as orce coconveners’ synthesis of the discussion at the as orce meeting and outlines our understanding of the ey ideas and insights that emerged from those delierations here as no attemt to force a negotiated consensus on these oints and they are our interretation of the intense, informed, and farreaching discussion

o cature a more detailed sense of the very rich ideas rought to the tale y the as orce memers, included in this reort are each of their “thin ieces”

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