Felix Dodds addressing the CSD session on "Multi-stakeholders Dialogue on Advancing the Implementation of CSD Decisions."

"Rio+20 should re-boot sustainable development, re-establish effective national processes – including NCSDs; involve new stakeholders such as regional governments, foundations and parliamentarians; re-establish an effective inter-agency committee on sustainable development; bring together a high level group to help guide the CSD in future – perhaps former CSD Chairs; focus on champions to replicate good practice; re-visit the issue of monitoring effectively means of implementation at Rio+20; bring the relevant government ministries to the table – the ones with the money; adequately fund sustainable development processes at the intergovernmental, national and stakeholder levels;  bring new thinking needed...NOW!! "

Addressing the The 5th Global Forum on Oceans Coasts and Islands 2010 Conference in Paris at the UNESCO HQ on Rio+20

"Our present lifestyles are drawing down the ecological capital from other parts of the world and from future generations. We are increasingly becoming the most irresponsible generation our planet has seen." Read full speech here.

"Reviving the Spirit of Rio" an article by the great and wonderful Maurice Strong and Felix Dodds on the BBC web site a chance for all to contribute to the debate on Rio+20 before the first preparatory meeting on the 17th of May.

"Earth Summit 2012 presents a unique platform for negotiating the co-operation needed to achieve a new deal between North and South, between rich and poor and between present and future generations. A co-operation that is critical to the future of all people on the planet; and a co-operation that we must achieve."

Maurice Strong and Felix Dodds

If you are in New York on the 15th of May Stakeholder Forum with  UN NGLS are organising a conference on Rio+20 details on the earth summit 2012 web site.

The April issue of IISD's Multilaterial Environmental Agreements Bulletin carries an article by Felix Dodds called 'Earth Summit 2012 - The Rio Spirit'.

"From Stockholm to Rio 2012
In 2012, in Rio, Governments will again try to muster the political will to move us on to a more sustainable path.  It will convene forty years after Stockholm, the first United Nations environment conference, twenty-five years after the ground breaking Brundtland Report, twenty years after the last Rio Earth Summit, and ten years after the Johannesburg World Summit in Sustainable Development."

It can be read in full here.

Enjoying a Persian New Year with Zack Bleicher in Brooklyn

Don Edwards of Justice and Sustainability Associates and Felix Dodds after the Rio+20 meeting at NRDC in Washington on the 16th of March.

US groups starting to organise around the themes of Rio+20 in particular the Green Economy.