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"The EU’s main priority for Rio+20 was the global transition to the green economy, promoting the sustainable management of natural resources and sustainable consumption and production. The EU was particularly disappointed that the host country, Brazil, which had taken over the Presidency from the UN, pushed through the outcome document before the ministers had had time to get there, and decided to strip the text of all its controversial elements. As a result of what was a wretched process of facilitation, the EU was unable to form its coalition, and many of its priorities were not recorded or were entirely ignored.
It is common knowledge what I think about the UN’s climate processes. Rio+20 was not a climate conference, but what they have in common is that the processes in their current form achieve nothing meaningful. The decision makers at Rio should have had an opportunity, for example, to use the nine Major Groups – Business and Industry, Children and Youth, Farmers, Indigenous Peoples, and so on – as a resource for determining the content of the outcome document. The disappointed Major Groups, who were prepared to assist the decision makers, marched out of the meeting and dissociated themselves from the section of the opening address that proclaimed that the outcome document had been finalised through consultation with them. The future that they wanted to see was not achieved, for which we can primarily blame the process and the EU’s intrusive marketing strategy for the green economy. The developing countries began to consider the concept to be a conspiracy theory that obstructed their economic growth.
I hope that we will implement the EU’s priorities within the Union, and not dash the hopes that civil society had for us. Future generations will need jobs, sustainable forms of energy, the chance to consume sustainably and a voice in decision making. Fortunately, the ‘sustainable development goals’ process was initiated and the initiative on water and sanitation as a human right, as promoted by Finland, was mentioned for the first time in a UN document."@en1
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