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The Contested Legacy of Rio+20

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  • Maria Ivanova

    (Maria Ivanova is an assistant professor of global governance at the McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies, and Co-Director for the Center for Governance and Sustainability, both at the University of Massachusetts Boston.)

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The 2012 UN Conference on Sustainable Development Rio+20 generated a wide range of mostly negative reactions. Even before the conference, there was widespread doubt about the possibility of success. As soon as the conference closed, analysts highlighted its failures and criticized the outcome document, The Future We Want. While it does not present a grand transformative vision, the outcome document does reaffirm past political commitments and addresses the multiple dimensions of sustainable development and the linkages among them. Indeed, Rio+20 had subtle, yet significant impacts. Three main areas stand out: reform of international institutions, sustainable development goals, and participation as principle and practice. The global decisions in these domains and the unprecedented local engagement provide critical junctures likely to shape global environmental governance for the next two decades. © 2013 by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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  • Maria Ivanova, 2013. "The Contested Legacy of Rio+20," Global Environmental Politics, MIT Press, vol. 13(4), pages 1-11, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:tpr:glenvp:v:13:y:2013:i:4:p:1-11
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    Cited by:

    1. David Meek, 2015. "Counter-Summitry: La Via Campesina, the People's Summit, and Rio+20," Global Environmental Politics, MIT Press, vol. 15(2), pages 11-18, May.
    2. Michael W. Manulak, 2022. "Maria Ivanova. 2021. The untold story of the world’s leading environmental institution: UNEP at fifty (Cambridge: MIT Press)," The Review of International Organizations, Springer, vol. 17(1), pages 223-226, January.
    3. Mairon G. Bastos Lima & Gabrielle Kissinger & Ingrid J. Visseren-Hamakers & Josefina Braña-Varela & Aarti Gupta, 2017. "The Sustainable Development Goals and REDD+: assessing institutional interactions and the pursuit of synergies," International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics, Springer, vol. 17(4), pages 589-606, August.

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    Keywords

    sustainable development; United Nations; global environmental governance; Rio+20;
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    JEL classification:

    • Q01 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - General - - - Sustainable Development
    • Q50 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - General

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