The Government of Brazil is convening a Sustainable Development Dialogue series with the aim to bring together civil society, the scientific community and academia to contribute ideas and suggestions on sustainable development. Conclusions and recommendations from the Dialogues will be conveyed to the heads of State and Government gathering in Rio on June 20-22.

An open online platform is now operational. Facilitators from international academic and research institutions are leading online discussions on 10 themes identified as key to sustainable development: Food and nutrition security, Sustainable development for fighting poverty, Sustainable development as an answer to the economic and financial crises, The economics of sustainable development, including sustainable patterns of production and consumption, Sustainable cities and innovation, Unemployment, decent work and migrations, Energy, Water, Oceans, Forests.

UCLG is putting forward some recommendations based on the ones adopted by the main international networks of local and regional authorities meeting in New York in April:

·          A new multi-level governance architecture is needed.

·          Sustainable Cities should be a crosscutting issue in the Sustainable Development Agenda. 

·          Cohesion among territories in development policies should be fostered.

·          Culture should be acknowledged as an important dimension of sustainable development. 

·          Development of legal and financial mechanisms at international and national levels for local and sub-national governments.

The top recommendations will be presented at the Sustainable Development Dialogues events to take place in Rio from 16 to 19 June, and to the Heads of State and Government at Rio+20 Conference itself. 

Members are strongly encouraged to register to the Dialogues online and vote for the recommendations they want to promote and to be conveyed to the Conference. Hurry up! Dialogues are already underway and voting takes place until 3rd of June!

 

How to take part?

Register at https://www.riodialogues.org/ and request an invitation to join the discussion.

Once you have joined, you have access to all the dialogues and you are encouraged to take part in discussions by posting recommendations, voting for the ones you support as well as sharing comments and links to important documents by using the «add» function.

The virtual platform supports English, French, Spanish and Portuguese speakers and offer instant translation.

 

Tweeting for the cities we want

Furthermore, we are undertaking a joint communication effort with members and partners in social networks to draw attention to the issues related to cities and sustainable urban development before and during the conference.

Tweet #citieswewant to share your vision for a sustainable urban world.

 

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