WHAT WE WANT FROM RIO+20

Request UNDESA and the Rio+20 Bureau to include five sustainable development governance goals and commitments in the compilation document and zero draft of the Rio+20 outcome documents.

Sustainable Development Governance Goals & Commitments:

- A clear mandate to regional UN Economic Commissions and UNEP regional offices and a request to other regional bodies to negotiate regional (or sub-regional) conventions on Principle 10 by 2022.

- A commitment by governments to enact broad and comprehensive legal reforms for access to information, public participation and access to justice in environmental matters by 2022.

- A commitment by governments and the UN to improve environmental assessment practice by 2022.

- A recognition of the importance of environmental databases and the commitment to establish by 2022 international standards and protocols for collection, analysis, dissemination and uptake of environmental information.

- A commitment by governments to establish low or no cost, efficient and effective environmental dispute resolution citizen enforcement mechanisms (e.g. Environmental Courts and citizen suit).