Podcast Episode 1: The Rebirth of Sustainable Development from the book Rio+20 to the New Development Agenda

This is Episode 1 of our new series based on From Rio+20 to a New Development Agenda: Building a Bridge to a Sustainable Future by FelixDodds , Jorge Laguna-Celis, and Liz Thompson . Twenty years after the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, "The Earth Summit", the Rio+20 conference in 2012 brought life back to sustainable development by putting it at the centre of a new global development partnership, one in which sustainable development is the basis for eradicating poverty, upholding human development and transforming economies. Written by practitioners and participants involved in the multilateral process of negotiations, this book presents a unique insider analysis of not only what happened and why, but also where the outcomes might impact in the future, particularly in the UN development agenda beyond 2015. The book throws light on the changing nature of multilateralism and questions frequent assumptions on how policy is defined within t...