How to Lobby at Intergovernmental Meetings: Training Workshop

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How to Lobby at Intergovernmental Meetings
Training Workshop

• Felix Dodds and Jennifer Peer
• Cyprus 19-20th March 2007

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Course Objectives

• Overall objective prepare CESF to participate in
  CSD 15
• Overview of intergovernmental processes on the
  environment
• History of sustainable development
• Introduction to Multilateral Environmental
  Agreements
• National and Regional Preparations for UN
  Meetings
• Attending UN Meetings what to expect and how to
  use your time as effectively as possible

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Course Objectives

• Implementing UN Decisions
• Understanding the Role of NGOs in
  intergovernmental processes
• Using the media to promote your positions at the
  UN
• Begin to develop a common position paper for the
  CSD
• Other objectives??

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UN Secretary General Kofi Annan

• "The United Nations once dealt only with
  governments. By now we know that peace and
  prosperity cannot be achieved without partners
  involving governments, international
  organizations, the business community and civil
  society. In today's world, we depend on each
  other."

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Stakeholder Forumwww.stakeholderforum.org

• A UK Multi-stakeholder Forum
• The UK National Committee for UNEP
• The UK Focal Point for UNDP
• Local Agenda 21, indicators for sustainable
  development, national multi-stakeholder round
  nations
• A Global Multi-stakeholder Forum

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Stakeholder Forum www.stakeholderforum.org

• CSD Dialogues (1996)
• The WHO London European Health and Environmental
  Conference (1999)
• The Second World Water Forum (2000)
• Informal Environmental Ministers Meeting (2000)
• Bonn International Freshwater Conference (2001)
• Multi stakeholder Processes (Earthscan 2002)
• The Implementation Conference (2002)
• Bonn International Renewable Energy Conference
  (2004)
• High Level Panel on UN Reform (2006)
• UNEP GPA (2006)

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Books from SF in the last few years

• Plain Language Guide to WSSD
• How to Lobby at Intergovernmental Meetings
• Governance for Sustainable Development
• Human and Environmental Security

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Overview of Sustainable Development History and
Processes Understand the CSD

• Look at UN first conference on Human Environment
  (Stockholm) 1972 to now
• Role of Stakeholders
• Present cycle of the UN Commission on Sustainable
  Development

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United Nations

• 1972 Stockholm Human Environment
• 1987 Brundtland Commission
• 1992 Rio Earth Summit (Environment and
  Development)
• 1993 Vienna Conference (Human Rights)
• 1994 Cairo Conference (Population)
• 1995 Copenhagen Social Summit (Unemployment,
  Migration and Poverty)
• 1995 Beijing Fourth Conference on Women and
  Development
• 1996 Istanbul Conference (Human Settlements)
• 1996 Rome Food Summit
• 1987 Rio 5
• 2000 Millennium Summit
• 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development and
  Monterrey
• 2005 World Summit 2005

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Outcomes from Stockholm

• UNEP
• Action Plan for the Human Environment
• Declaration of the United Nations Conference on
  the Human Environment

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Stockholm to Rio

• Press interest
• NGOs
• Multilateral Environmental Agreements
• National Government Ministries
• Public awareness
• Brundtland Commission

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Outcomes from UN Conference on Environment and
Development (Rio) 1992 Earth Summit

• Agenda 21
• Rio Declaration
• Climate Change Convention
• Bio-diversity Convention
• Forestry Principles
• UN Commission on Sustainable Development
• Major Groups
• Financing Rio 625 billion
• 120 Heads of State and Global Forum

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Stakeholders and Local Action

• "Each local authority should enter into a
  dialogue with its citizens, local organizations
  and private enterprises and adopt a local Agenda
  21 through consultation and consensus building,
  local authorities would learn from citizens and
  from local, civic, community, business and
  industrial organizations and acquire the
  information for formulating the best strategies."
  Agenda 21

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The Commission on Sustainable Development First
Cycle (1993-1996)

• Advancing the cause of Small Island Developing
  States (SIDS)
• Promoting the role of Major Groups
• Recommending that relevant bodies seek a
  legally-binding status for the Prior Informed
  Consent procedure
• Supporting the Washington Global Plan for Action
  on protecting the marine environment from
  land-based activities
• The setting up of the UN Intergovernmental Panel
  on Forest

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UNGASS (Rio 5) 1997

• Further Programme
• A date for National Sustainable Development
  Strategies to be produced and implemented
  pioneering national reporting
• Multilateral Investment Agreement
• Preparation for Kyoto
• Wake up on Finances aid had gone down from 56
  billion to 53 billion
• Creation of multi stakeholder dialogues

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The Commission on Sustainable Development Second
Cycle (1998-2001)

• Establishing the open-ended process on oceans and
  the law of the sea
• The establishment of the UN Forum on Forests
• Developing a set of indicators for sustainable
  development
• Agreeing on new consumer guidelines to include
  sustainable development
• Initiating the global freshwater assessment (now
  the World Water Development Report)

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World Summit on Sustainable Development (2002)

• A new deal?
• Strong negotiated text?
• 9/11
• Sanitation target
• Partnerships
• Push for ratification of Rio conventions
• Other targets includeWSSD target on IWRM
  (integrated water resource management) and Water
  Efficiency Plans by 2005,

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CSD Cycle 3

• 2004 and 2005 Water Cycle Sanitation and Human
  Settlements
• 2006 and 2007 Energy Cycle Industrial
  Development Air Pollution / Atmosphere Climate
  Change
• 2008-2009 Agriculture Cycle Rural Development
  Land Drought Desertification Africa
• The first year of the cycle looks at
  opportunities and threats and the second at the
  policy implications

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Cross Cutting issues

• including poverty, Changing unsustainable
  patterns of consumption and production,
  Protecting and managing the natural resource base
  of economic and social development, Sustainable
  development in a globalizing world , means of
  implementation, education and gender, Sustainable
  development of SIDS, Sustainable development for
  Africa, Other regional initiatives,

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CSD Energy

• 2 billion people do not have access to modern
  energy services and an estimated 16 trillion
  will be needed for investment in the world energy
  systems in the next 25 years

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This CSD Energy

• Johannesburg Renewable Energy Coalition (JREC) in
  2002 a like minded group said they would increase
  the share of renewable energy in the global total
  primary energy supply mix. And set targets for
  the increase of renewable energy

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What do you think would be the key energy issues?
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Energy Cycle politics

• Nuclear
• Hydropower
• Sustainable Consumption and Production
• Subsidies
• Climate Change
• Oil and Gas
• Energy Security
• All options must remain open
• Role of the UN
• Technology Transfer Constraints
• Missing Targets
• Financing renewables

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And what else at the CSD

• Negotiations
• Partnership Fair
• Side events
• Stakeholder meetings
• Learning Center

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