Columbia, Guatemala and others are proposing to use Rio as a springboard to develop sustainable development goals.
We want an agreement to develop sustainable development goals that meet the linked challenges of food, energy and water security, we want a shift in the way we measure prosperity; with agreement to consider natural and social values alongside traditional measures of GDP.
Theoretically, the CDM has the dual purpose of helping developing countries achieve "sustainable development" goals and industrialized countries meet their Kyoto emissions reduction commitments.
Renewable energy can help developing countries meet their sustainable development goals through access to clean, secure, reliable and affordable energy.
Perhaps most important, the conference launched a process to develop a set of sustainable development goals, which would build upon the MDGs and converge with the post-2015 development agenda.
The summit - which marks 20 years since the Rio Earth Summit and 40 years since the very first UN environmental gathering in Stockholm - is likely to agree to develop a set of sustainable development goals (SDGs), a concept that Unep endorses.
Experts from all over the world will address key questions in tackling global health challenges, including innovations in achieving the sustainable development goals, treating infectious diseases, and developing collaborations between north and south.
Within the context of the future of the UN's development agenda, the open working group on sustainable development goals includes specific targets for developing the skills young people need to thrive and find employment in the 21st century.
Tax collection in developing countries will determine whether the sustainable development goals can rival the success of the millennium development goals, which expire this year.
We have commitment to the sustainable development goals, to strengthening UNEP, to encourage corporate sustainability reporting, develop beyond GDP, adopt the 10 year programme on sustainable consumption and production, some signals on energy, and the bolstering of science in policy making.
Using that assessment to develop goals.
