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Foreword........................................................................................... 3
Acknowledgements............................................................................ 4
Statement by José Manuel Barroso, President of the
European Commission....................................................................... 8
Statement by Yoshihiko Noda, Prime Minister of Japan...................... 9
Statement by Lee Myung-bak, President of the Republic of Korea..... 10
Statement by Jens Stoltenberg, Prime Minister of Norway................ 11
Statement by Jacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma, President of the
Rebublic of South Africa................................................................... 12
Statement by Fredrik Reinfeldt, Prime Minister of Sweden............... 13
Environment: legal and ethical issues
Ecuador: promoting the rights of nature
María Fernanda Espinosa, Coordination Minister of Heritage,
Ecuador
............................................................................................14
Establishing Earth-based governance for the rights of the environment
Linda Sheehan, Executive Director, Earth Law Center
.......................... 18
Approaching harmony with nature
Barbara Sundberg Baudot, President, Triglav Circle
............................. 22
Climate change mitigation through oriental wisdom and human
development
Suthawan Sathirathai and Buntoon Sethasiroj, Good Governance for
Social Development and the Environment Institute
............................... 26
Non-regression in environmental protection: a new tool for
implementing the Rio Principles
Michel Prieur and Geoff Garver, International Centre of Comparative
Environmental Law
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People: social inclusion, green jobs, education
Social equity, gender equality and environmental justice
Sascha Gabizon, Executive Director, Women in Europe for a
Common Future
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Sustainable development at the local level in Botswana
Sankuyo Tshwaraganang Management Trust
....................................... 36
National development projects supporting sustainable human
development in Azerbaijan
Huseingulu Bagirov, Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources and
Shahin Mustafayev, Minister of Economic Development, Azerbaijan
...... 38
Views from the ground: the role of subnational governments in
sustainable development
Maruxa Cardama, Secretary General, Network of Regional
Governments for Sustainable Development
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A sustainable, healthy, inclusive future – the ground rules must
be different
Sharan Burrow, General Secretary, International Trade Union
Confederation
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Making a decent living while respecting the environment
Laura Martín Murillo, Director, Sustainlabour
.................................... 48
Education as a driver for sustainable human development
Kartikeya V. Sarabhai, Director, Centre for Environmental Education
(CEE), Nehru Foundation for Development, India
................................ 51
How organizations can manage social responsibility
for sustainability
Christian Brodhag, Professor, National School of Mines,
Saint-Etienne
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A vision for sustainability transformation at a
knowledge base institution
Omar Osman, Vice-Chancellor, Universiti Sains Malaysia; Norizan Md
Nor, Director; and Kanayathu Koshy, Professor of Sustainability; Centre
for Global Sustainability Studies, Universiti Sains Malaysia
.................. 59
Environment: air, water, oceans, climate change
The impact of climate change on sustainable development in Latin
America and the Caribbean
Walter Vergara, Division Chief, Climate Change and Sustainability,
Inter-American Development Bank
...................................................... 64
Sustainability research using spatially explicit land-use change scenarios
Yoshiki Yamagata, Centre for Global Environmental Research, National
Institute for Environmental Studies, Tsukuba, Japan
............................ 66
Save the Earth: sharing Japan’s experience with the world
Shinya Ejima, Director General, Global Environment Department,
Japan International Cooperation Agency
............................................. 69
Success with sustainable development in the Dominican Republic
Ernesto Reyna Alcántara, Minister for Environment & Natural Resources,
Dominican Republic
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Sustainable development in Kuwait
Salah Mudhhi Al-Mudhhi, Environment Public Authority, Kuwait
......... 77
A regional initiative within the Pacific Oceanscape Framework
Kevin Arthur Saimasina Thomsen, Director, Strategic Partnership and
Coordination Programme, Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat
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The promise of the ocean
Ms. Svandís Svavarsdóttir, Minister for the Environment and
Mr. Steingrímur J. Sigfússon, Minister of Fisheries and Agriculture, Iceland....
84
Portuguese-Spanish transboundary water management cooperation
Rui Rodrigues, Head, Water Resources Planning and Monitoring
and Information Systems Joint Departments, Portuguese Institute
for Water
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Advancing environmental sustainability and sustainable ecological
agriculture through community empowerment
Sarojeni V. Rengam, Executive Director, Pesticide Action Network Asia
and the Pacific
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Rwanda’s firm steps on the road to Rio+20
Alex Mulisa, Rwanda Environment Management (REMA), Denis Rugege,
Environmental Advisor to REMA, Rose Mukankomeje, Director General,
REMA, Ms Caroline Kayonga, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Natural
Resources, Republic of Rwanda
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