Next book due out in June - The Plain Language Guide to Rio+20: Preparing for the New Development Agenda
The Plain Language Guide to Rio+20: Preparing
for the New Development Agenda is my second book with Jorge Laguna Celis and Liz Thompson and will eb a Kindle download in June.
It was inspired by a publication, in 1993 by the
Centre for Our Common Future called The Earth Summit’s Agenda for Change. In
2003 Stakeholder Forum for a Sustainable Future produced an updated document
after the Johannesburg Summit called The Plain Language Guide to the World
Summit on Sustainable Development. We have reprinted below the original Preface
from 1993 by Warren (Chip) Lindner, which expressed the vision that sprang from
Rio and was embedded in the Johannesburg and Rio+20 Conferences. Chip was then
the director of the Centre for Our Common Future and had been the secretary to
the Brundtland Commission. He went on to be the political advisor to the chair
of the 1998 World AIDS Conference and successfully campaigned for the
conference to have its next conference, its first in a developing country,
South Africa. Chip died of an AIDS related illness in November 2000. We think
his words on the role of stakeholders have mostly come true.
This book is a resource book which we hope
will enable people to understand what was achieved at Rio+20 and become
involved in the implementation of those decisions. We have been helped by Jacob
Scherr and Chelsea Phipps from NRDC who have in the book looked at the
commitments and the role of governments and stakeholders in light of the
conferences since 1992.
Hi Felix,
ReplyDeleteWhat happened with Chip's preface from the 1992 book. Please post it. Thanks,
Rob Wheeler
its in the book
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