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Rio +20, Outcomes - Coggle Diagram
Rio +20
Stats
Total number of participants: 45,381
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Over 100 Heads of State and Government Delegates: approximately 12,000
NGOs and Major Groups: 9,856
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Security Personnel: 4,363
About 5,000 people worked at Riocentro daily
1,500 people volunteered, including young people, selected from of technical schools, Rio de Janeiro public
school students, university students, and professionals from across Brazil.
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Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on 20-22 June 2012. It is called "+20" since it took place 20 years after The Earth Summit.
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More initiatives related to climate change followed the Rio +20 summit due to the amount of attention it brought to topics such as global warming and climate change.
Rio +20 Summit was also highly inclusive in that, it took into account the perspectives of any person/group impacting the environment, whether they wer on the national, international or district level.
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Outcomes
In Rio, Member States decided to launch a process to develop a set of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which will build upon the Millennium Development Goals and converge with the post 2015 development agenda.
Governments also agreed to strengthen the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) on several fronts with action to be taken during the 67th session of the General Assembly.
Governments also decided to establish an intergovernmental process under the General Assembly to prepare options on a strategy for sustainable development financing.
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Governments also adopted the 10-year framework of programmes on sustainable consumption and production patterns, and invited the General Assembly, at its sixty-seventh session, to designate a Member State body to take any necessary steps to fully operationalize the framework.
The Rio +20 Conference also galvanized the attention of thousands of representatives of the UN system and major groups. It resulted in over 700 voluntary commitments and witnessed the formation of new partnerships to advance sustainable development.