Rio+20 Conference

Beyond 2015 will use this section to higlight the side events organised by the campaign's Rio+20 Taskforce and to highlight Beyond 2015 participating organisations' blogs and reactions to Rio, specifically focusing on the link between SDGs and a post-2015 framework.

Beyond 2015 side events in Rio+20

Beyond 2015 is organising the following events during Rio, to which all Beyond 2015 participating organisations and others are invited – please share widely!:

• Role of Sustainable Development Goals in the post-2015 framework (13th June 2012)
• What will be the #riolegacy? (13th June 2012)
• What will be the #riolegacy? (21st June 2012)
• Role of Sustainable Development Goals in the post-2015 framework (21st June 2012)

Rio News from Beyond 2015 participating organisations

• Press Release: Rio 1992 connected the environment and development. Rio+20 looks like splitting them up, a joint Oxfam-GCAP-Beyond2015 press release, June 2012
• Beyond 2015 policy paper: The Sustainable Development Goals and their relationship to a post 2015 global development framework, May 2012

• Blame it on Rio: Rights sidelined at crucial conference, CESR, July 2012
• SDGs: Cutting through the fog, Denise Auclair, CIDSE, July 2012
• Exhibiting Work at Rio+20, Active Remedy, June 2012
• GCCA partners on Rio+20 outcome, June 2012
• Rio+20: The missing issue of ageing, Anders Hylander, HelpAge, June 2012
• A path towards sustainable development, Helen Hamilton, June 2012
• Agenda 21 "degraded" in Rio, Kimbowa Richard, Uganda Coalition for Sustainable Development, June 2012
• Caritas urges the EU for an ambitious post-2015 roadmap in Rio+20, June 2012
• Rio+20, Helen Hamilton, Sightsavers, June 2012
• SDGs or MDGs the goal AND process is one and the same, CAN International, June 2012
• Rio+20: Joining the crowds in the Samba City, Bernadette Fischler, CAFOD, June 2012
• Rio +20: Will We Get The Future We Want?, Matt Davies, ATD Fourth World, June 2012
• Judging Success, David Hale, Progressio, June 2012
• On Sustainable Development Goals, Alex Farrow, YouthPolicy.org, June 2012
• SDGs: time to focus on an integrated post-2015 process, Outreach, June 2012
• A Reflection on the 2012 Day of the African Child: How Rio + 20 can further this cause, Kimbowa Richard, Uganda Coalition for Sustainable Development, June 2012
• Rio+20: what do we want it to achieve on sustainable development?, Neva Frecheville, WWF UK, June 2012
• The world begins to gather in Rio, Progressio, June 2012
• Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch Joint Statement on the Rio+20 UN Conference on Sustainable Development, June 2012 (See Press Release here)
• Beyond 2015 – what’s the future for development and the environment?, Neva Frecheville, WWF UK, June 2012
• The Changes we Need for the Future we Want, CIDSE, June 2012
• The Future We Want: Learning from Children’s Experiences of Sustainable Development, Save the Children, May 2012
• We need to be clear on what happens with the SDGs once Rio+20 is over, Bernadette Fischler, March 2012
• Let’s be politically more ambitious about the change we want from Rio+20!, Collectif Rio+20
• The future we want: CSOs making the difference at Rio+20, Beyond 2015

If you would like to highlight an organisational blog via this section of the Beyond 2015 website, please contact Gerard Vives (Gerard.Vives@concordeurope.org) and Neva Frecheville (NFrecheville@wwf.org.uk)

During Rio don't forget to tweet using the hashtags #beyond2015 and #riolegacy!!!