EU Development Days - Rio+20 session

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Ms Amina Mohamed to participate - UN Assistant Secretary-General and Deputy Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) 

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Post Rio+20: which strategy for sustainable and inclusive growth?

Parliaments and civil society fostering a new Global Development Agenda

High Level Panel organised by the Committee on Development

of the European Parliament

European Development Days 2012

Tour & Taxis, Auditorium D -Brussels

 17 October 2012

from 11.00 to 12.30

Rio+20 has shown that social development still lags behind economic progress, and that our measurement of sustainable development needs to advance beyond the quantitative. Its two main themes - the green economy in the context of poverty eradication and an institutional framework for sustainable development - offer an important entry point to mainstream "inclusion" in sustainable development. The EU's Agenda for Change offers a good opportunity to (i) build on the objective of "inclusive growth" (ii) undertake a critical review of what has worked and what has not in the field of sustainable development in the past two decades; and (iii) strengthen the foundations for a shared and inclusive development agenda.

Key objectives

-To discuss to what extent the lessons learnt from Rio+20 could be integrated into a single unified development agenda for all countries after 2015

-Identify what role national parliaments and CSO can and should play in this framework

-What should be, from our perspective, the contribution of the EU’s "Agenda for Change" on the process leading to the adoption of universal Sustainable Development Goals and the post-2015 MDGs landscape

Key discussion points

-The first section will be devoted to analyse the proposal included in the Agenda for Change on "inclusive growth" and will include the missing element "fighting inequity"

-The second section will assess the main outcomes of the Rio+20 Conference and identify the challenges towards a green economy and a new institutional framework for sustainable development

-The third section will discuss the role of development aid, including the EU's, to achieve sustainable and inclusive growth   

Event format

The event will focus on an open debate, in order to profit as much as possible from the presence of development and environmental experts from around the world at the EDDs. The panellists will provide a short introduction into the subject. The main part of the event will consist of an interactive exchange, both among the panellists and between the panellists and the audience, to be summarised in concluding remarks by the Members of the European Parliament.

Panellists

Introductory remarks:  Mr Michael Cashman, MEP

-Mr Tilman Altenburg, Head of Department Competitiveness and Social Development, German Development Institute (DIE)

-Ms Amina Mohamed, Assistant Secretary General, UNEP

-Hon. Alice Alaso Asianut, Chairperson of the Natural Resources Committee of the Parliament of Uganda

-Mr Johan Kuylenstierna, Executive Director of  Stockholm Environment Institute

-Mr Olivier Consolo, Director of CONCORD

-Mr Jean Marc Chataigner, Directeur génèral adjoint, Direction de la Mondialisation, du développement et des partenariats au ministère des Affaires étrangères et européennes français.

-Ms Sigrid Kaag, Head of UNDP Delegation to the EDDs, UN Assistant Secretary-General and UNDP Assistant Administrator

Moderator

Moderated by: Ms Isabella Lövin, MEP

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