Green Economy Call - 6.5.2012, 5pm GMT
Note: We are skyping please add Lena "memalaika"
Participants:Kabita,Laís, Claire,Sikander, Roli, Chris, LloydNaomi, Barkha
Fecilitator: Lena
Notetaker: Sikander
Our proposed agenda:
- Introduction
Lena-Germany-Facilitating task force, attended Informals
Sikander- Sri Lanka, Founder National Road to Rio+20 Campaign (http://nrrsl.blogspot.com/)
Kabita, Nepal, core Team member for Nepal youth task force for Rio+20http://nepaliyouthrio20.blogspot.com/
Claire, UK, Running mass campaign to connect GS+GN called Rio+Africahttp://www.indiegogo.com/RioPlusAfrica --> please donate! like $10, $20... :)
[Also hoping to go to the next stage in Date With History: http://bit.ly/I9QC6r pls vote!]
Roli: India, Communications person (reporter/blogger/photographer)
Lloyd: UK, European Youth Forum, I'm really following IFSD and Objectives, but am being asked to speak alot about GE at the moment so listening in to see whats happening.
Lais- from Brazil, do not belong to any organization but going to Rio+20
Chris - UK, composer and researcher (volunteer activist with Oxfam GB), going to WYC and Rio
Naomi, Japan, environmental partnership council
Barkha, Mauritius
- Review from informal negotiations
- 2nd informal negotiations, Texts was negotiated, G77+China is not accepting the summary of the chairs from the Intersessional - G77+China was working on old text and other countries were working New Texts, two working groups division on section 1, 2, 4 and section 3, 5
Group 1 (Section 3 & 5) Green Economy
It was very complicated in the beginning of the informal informals, discussion on deletion of the paragraphs.
They could not decide anything but made the amendments longer and longer.
They have not enough pressure to decide and discuss on somethings specific.
Due to lack of maximum number of participants in the informal it has been a kind of unsuccess. Next time we need to be well prepared.
Text was not finalized till Friday, text remains quite long, Negotiators will meet once again on May 29 to June 2 in NY (before Prepcom III)
Closing remarks "still 400 paragraphs are remaining to be discussed and finalized before the Rio+20 summit"
MGCY made a document with 5 lobbying points for the informals- water, agriculture, education, unemployment and Eco system
Only the points on Unemployment and Education could be focused.
The chair will prepare the text by 22nd May which they are going to work on the next negotiation meeting.
The chair proposed new text that no one have seen before.
Less youth participation was a barrier to follow the negotiation.
On Friday African Union stepped out from G77+China and proposed their own text (for the IFSD: UNEP upgrade).
The Final text of the informals is not open for Public
Please send current text to:
lloyd@youthforum.org
sikander_sabeer@yahoo.com
lalawitch@yahoo.com.br
barkha.mossae@gmail.com
Kabitagautam1@gmail.com
clever_kangaroo@hotmail.comyes
roli.mahajan@gmail.com
clairemorris22@gmail.com
Para 101 ters:
Two things happening in Science:
To implement the instrumental proposal for sustainable education
The exchange was really good.
We are still in contact with those people.
Some countries proposed to implement the strategies against umployment.
MGCY had a meeting with VP of the World Bank,
The VP was incharge on Environmental Sustainability
building higher educational infrastructure
providing information
GDP:
Most of the groups were talking about it
Farmers were talking about agricultural techniques (we can add the point that these techniques should be added to the sustainable education proposal. Afterall, we need to encourage farming too.)
More focused in science
Goverments has projects of such kind
According to EU- G77 is against indicators.
- discussion on focus and steps forward in our group
Appointing one or two focal points, having sub-groups, forming google group for relevent task force to keep the communication,
Suggestion to have a facebook closed group rather new google group
Lloyd: FB is ok but the key is finding the people to lead on the areas.
My feeling is for those that will be there at the next round of the in-formals is there is a strong support for those small group of people from around the global in the TF and people are really committed to spend time in front of computers to help support those people in the respective areas.
- updating our lobbying points and strategy, defining tasks
Sub Groups
1 - Education - talk to the "Education Caucus" about working together on this:Laís, Barkha, Lloyd, Chris
Barkha: barkha.mossae@gmail.com
Chris: clever_kangaroo@hotmail.com
Laís: lalawitch@yahoo.com.br
Lloyd: lloyd@youthforum.org
2 - Youth (Un)employment/Jobs - work with Major Group on trade unions also focus on Employment Kabita, sikander
Kabita : kabitagautam1@gmail.com
Sikander: sikander_sabeer@yahoo.com
Groups to look at the specialised sections of texts and present them in the next call
- Next meetings
3pm GMT Sunday
- Others
- Green Economy Booklet (get in touch with Barkha)
If you want to volunteer to help me complete the booklet, please drop a word:barkha.mossae@gmail.com
- Continuing Green Economy webinar to involve more active people in our group.
- a short video clip on green economy- presenting our position points in the video (Get in touch with Barkha - email me your skills/timeframe and I'll get back to you in terms of content :) ) ....will do!
- please update our fb page when we have the next call!
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http://datewithhistory.com/#!/media/o7w2gr (Need FULL link!) - Laís
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