Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/256206 
Year of Publication: 
2012
Series/Report no.: 
SWP Comments No. 25/2012
Publisher: 
Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP), Berlin
Abstract: 
The United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD, or Rio+20) took place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, June 20-22, 2012. While the outcome document of the conference responded to most of the demands of the developing and emerging nations gathered in the Group of 77 (G-77), the European Union and many non-governmental organizations criticized the reform proposals for not going far enough and being too vague. In a surprising act of pragmatic Realpolitik, host country Brazil had proposed the compromise text shortly before the beginning of the conference, and then managed to push it through almost unaltered-and thus succeeded in reaching an agreement in Rio, despite the difficult pre-negotiations. The outcome document, 'The Future We Want,' however, reflects only a lowest common denominator of the community of states on international sustainability policy. Germany and the European Union should now strive to reach beyond these meager results in the upcoming post-Rio processes
Document Type: 
Research Report

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