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Earth Condominium A Metric for Nature Balancing and Aligning for Rio+20

Earth Condominium A Metric for Nature Balancing and Aligning for Rio+20. Farooq Ullah – Executive Director Designate. The Great Balancing Act.

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Earth Condominium A Metric for Nature Balancing and Aligning for Rio+20

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  1. Earth CondominiumA Metric for NatureBalancing and Aligning for Rio+20 Farooq Ullah – Executive Director Designate

  2. The Great Balancing Act The balancing act is how the two fundamental elements of sustainable development and how these must be considered together; that is planetary health and social justice. Together these two elements describe a sustainable vision that respects both planetary boundaries/environmental limits and a social foundation,which will ensure a safe and just operating space for our existence and defines new pathways for inclusive growth and prosperity. Source: Oxfam - http://oxf.am/oef

  3. The Many Issues of Alignment • Vertical • International to National to Regional to Local • Implementability - No global economy as such, patchwork of regional economies • Horizontal • Bio-centric vs. people-centric. Are these contradictory approaches? • Adopt a rights-based approach • Joining the dots • Creating coherence performance measurement and management system • Thereby identifying gaps and improve our understanding • Principles, Values and Behaviours • Information is the basis of education, which, in turn, changes value and behaviours. Information is empowering • Sustainable development is a cause for fairness

  4. Vertical Alignment & Accountability Global Vision SDGs Goals Beyond GDP National & Local National Accounts/Ecosystem Valuation Implementation Corporate Sustainability Organisational

  5. The Many Issues of Alignment • Vertical • International to National to Regional to Local • Implementability - No global economy as such, patchwork of regional economies • Horizontal • Bio-centric vs. people-centric. Are these contradictory approaches? • Adopt a rights-based approach • Joining the dots • Creating coherence performance measurement and management system • Thereby identifying gaps and improve our understanding • Principles, Values and Behaviours • Information is the basis of education, which, in turn, changes value and behaviours. Information is empowering • Sustainable development is a cause for fairness

  6. Pillars vs. Nested Approach OR Economic Social Environment

  7. The Many Issues of Alignment • Vertical • International to National to Regional to Local • Implementability - No global economy as such, patchwork of regional economies • Horizontal • Bio-centric vs. people-centric. Are these contradictory approaches? • Adopt a rights-based approach • Joining the dots • Creating coherence performance measurement and management system • Thereby identifying gaps and improve our understanding • Principles, Values and Behaviours • Information is the basis of education, which, in turn, changes value and behaviours. Information is empowering • Sustainable development is a cause for fairness

  8. Four Types of Fairness • Interpersonal • Inter-societal • Inter-biological • Intergenerational

  9. "Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.” - A sign hanging in Albert Einstein's Princeton office

  10. Thank You Farooq Ullah Executive Director Designate Stakeholder Forum fullah@stakeholderforum.org www.stakeholderforum.org www.earthsummit2012.org

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