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NEW: Briefing for Participation in Earth Summit 2002
Stakeholder Forum for Our Common FutureUNED Forum has changed its name to ‘Stakeholder Forum for Our Common Future’ as of January 1, 2002. The new name expresses the character and central purpose of this dynamic initiative to support international civil society organisations concerned with sustainable development. It includes organisations representing all the major groups recognised by the UN including business, labour, parliamentarians, local government, NGOs, indigenous peoples, women, youth, farmers and scientists. Felix Dodds, Executive Director of Stakeholder Forum, said: “This name recalls the vision of the ground-breaking Brundtland Report: ‘Our Common Future’, which in 1987 established the foundation for all future work on sustainable development. The new name also builds on the work of Chip Lindner, Ashok Khosla and the Centre for Our Common Future, which did so much to promote sustainable development and the vision of the Brundtland report at and around the time of the Rio Earth Summit in 1992." Both the Brundtland Report and the work of the Centre attached great importance to engaging stakeholders of all kinds in promoting sustainable development in order to make it a reality. Stakeholder Forum for Our Common Future will be developing this idea further. It is supporting a wide range of stakeholder activity in the preparations for this years Earth Summit in Johannesburg. It is also organizing a major stakeholder conference in Johannesburg the week before the Summit: Implementation Conference - Stakeholder Action for Our Common Future, which will promote practical collaborative stakeholder action, programmes and projects for helping to implement global agreements on sustainability. “I am proud that we are able to take up the baton from the former Centre for our Common Future." said Dodds. “As we head into a critical year which will include the International Conference on Financing for Development [Monterrey, Mexico], the World Food Summit Review [Rome], and the World Summit on Sustainable Development [Johannesburg], the active participation of all stakeholders will be critical." Dr. Gro Harlem Brundtland, director of the World Health Organization [WHO], formerly Prime Minister of Norway and chair of the UN Commission which produced the 1987 report, said: “I congratulate UNED Forum on the extensive work it has undertaken. The promotion of a healthy environment requires the active involvement of, and commitment by, all stakeholders. I find it particularly encouraging to see the growth of UNED from what was essentially a nationally based entity into a truly international force for environment and development. I am honoured that you would choose this title.” UNED Forum was established two years ago as an international initiative by UNED-U.K. UNED-UK, which acts as the UK National Committee for UNEP and UNDP and supports the UN Commission on Sustainable Development, has been active over many years in promoting UK stakeholder engagement with international sustainable development work. The basic concept of the Forum has been to extend this kind of multi-stakeholder engagement to the international level so that international stakeholder groups can interact more deeply, effectively and co-operatively with international sustainable development meetings and processes. The work of the Forum is guided by a broadly-based International Advisory Board, and serviced by the staff of UNED-UK. The United Nations Association of Great Britain and Northern Ireland provides the secretariat for Stakeholder Forum for Our Common Future. Since 1998, we have been building our work around preparing for Earth Summit 2002. Within that remit, we work in the following areas:
Stakeholder Forum for Our Common Future operates both in the UK and internationally. Learn more about Stakeholder Forum and UNED-UK. NEW: Earth Summit 2002. A New Deal. 2nd Edition out now!
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