UNOSD/2013/01

Meeting Report

Expert Consultation on Knowledge and Capacity Needs for Sustainable Development in the Post Rio+20 Era
Convened by United Nations Office for Sustainable Development
Incheon, Republic of Korea In Partnership With United Nations Center for Regional Development Nagoya, Japan Asia-Europe Foundation Singapore

Korean Environment Institute Seoul

Executive Summary
Over fifty country representatives, together with over forty-five experts from United Nations agencies and other institutions, gathered in Incheon, Republic of Korea, during a three-day period, 6-8 March 2013. Through presentations, plenary discussions, working groups, and small-group conversations, they explored the current state of the art in the area knowledge and capacity building for sustainable development, taking into account the special needs of countries in the post-Rio+20 era. They considered success stories, failures, gaps, and strategies for meeting the complex and increasing needs expressed by member states and other stakeholders. The conversations summarized and reported in this proceedings document were rich and productive and captured a large diversity of views, reflecting a wide range of international experience. The deliberations of this Expert Consultation resulted in a consensus Framework for Action whose purpose is to help align knowledge sharing and capacity building efforts with each other, with present day needs and realities, and with the emerging needs of the future, as the international community moves to finalize a new set of Sustainable Develop Goals for the world as a whole. This Framework for Action (Section 1) captures the essential conclusions of the Expert Consultation, which were derived from careful analysis of input from the delegates. In Section 2 of this report, a narrative summary describes the overall flow and content of the Consultation, showing how the Framework for Action took form in relation to the presentations and delegate discussions. Note that this summary narrative does not identify presenters, speakers or questioners by name, with the exception of the dignitaries who spoke during the opening ceremonies. The Framework for Action first notes the progress as well as the gaps and challenges in the field of knowledge sharing and capacity development for sustainable development (a phrase shortened to the acronym KCSD throughout this report). The Framework then provides a list of eight Priority Action Areas: all institutional actors and practitioners in the field of KCSD are strongly encouraged to adopt these, spread them further, and implement them in whatever way is most appropriate to their situation. These Action Areas include the integration of KCSD into national, regional, and local planning processes; a focus on long-term, institutional processes (instead of individuals); enabling legislative environments; continuously updated tools for cooperation among programs and initiatives; better language for communicating KCSD across boundaries of all kinds; and the pursuit of a truly integrated approach, in anticipation of the adoption of new Sustainable Development Goals. All presentations are summarized and the presenters are documented in Section 3. These summaries are generally linked to presentation files, which may be downloaded and viewed at this URL: http://unosd.org/index.php?page=view&type=13&nr=9&menu=177 The Expert Consultation was hosted at the Hyatt Hotel Incheon by the United Nations Office for Sustainable Development, in partnership with three other institutions: The United Nations Office for Regional Development, based in Nagoya, Japan; the Asia-Europe Foundation, based in Singapore; and the Korea Environment Institute in Seoul.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents ....................................................................................................................... 3 Glossary of Acronyms and Shortened Terms ............................................................................ 4 Section 1. The Outcome Document ........................................................................................... 6 Section 2. A Narrative Summary of the Expert Consultation .................................................... 9 DAY 1: Wednesday, 6 March 2013 .................................................................................... 9 DAY 2: Thursday, 7 March 2013 ..................................................................................... 12 DAY 3: Friday, 8 March 2013 .......................................................................................... 14 Section 3. Presentation Summaries .......................................................................................... 19 Opening Session, March 6, 2013 [Day 1] ............................................................................ 19 Session 1 (Plenary): Knowledge and capacity needs and gaps for sustainable development [Day 1] ................................................................................................................................. 21 Session 2: Parallel Working Group Sessions [Day 1] ......................................................... 22 Mapping of who is doing what and how: sharing of experiences and lessons learned ....... 22 Working Group 1: Experiences from different knowledge and capacity building programmes and networks in sustainable development: what has worked and what has not? .................................................................................................................................. 22 Working Group 2: SD knowledge management for capacity building in the post Rio+20 era .................................................................................................................................... 24 Session 3: Unlocking the potential of water-energy- agriculture nexus for poverty eradication [Day 2] .............................................................................................................. 25 Session 4: Parallel Working Group Sessions [Day 2] ......................................................... 27 Bridging knowledge and capacity gaps in post Rio era ....................................................... 27 Working Group 3: Building capacities for adapting to climate change in water management ..................................................................................................................... 27 Working Group 4: Knowledge and capacity needs for providing energy access to all .. 28 Working Group 5: Sustainable agriculture, food security and climate change .............. 29 Session 5: Implementing Rio+20 outcomes: the way forward for knowledge sharing and capacity building [Day 3]..................................................................................................... 30 Expert Panel 1: Sustainable development goals and a new architecture for sustainable development governance .................................................................................................. 30 Expert Panel 2: Knowledge and capacity needs for accelerating transition towards sustainability including green economy........................................................................... 32 Appendix A: Meeting Agenda ................................................................................................. 34 Appendix B: Remarks and Presentations ................................................................................. 44 Day 1 ................................................................................................................................ 44 Day 2 .............................................................................................................................. 120 Day 3 .............................................................................................................................. 292 Appendix C: Biographies of Speakers ................................................................................... 320 Appendix D: List of Participants ........................................................................................... 334

Glossary of Acronyms and Shortened Terms

ASEAN ASEF ASEM Cap-Net CEU COMSATS CSO DESA DSD ENVForum ESD FAO GA GCF GDP GDP+ GEC GEF GGGI GHG ICLEI ICT IGES IISD IRDR KCSD KEI KM LEAP Major Groups Association of Southeast Asian Nations Asia-Europe Foundation Asia-Europe Meeting Capacity Building for Integrated Water Resources Management Central European University COMSATS Institute of Information Technology (Pakistan) Civil Society Organization Same as UNDESA Division for Sustainable Development (within UNDESA) Asia-Europe Environmental Forum Education for Sustainable Development Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations General Assembly of the United Nations Green Climate Fund Gross Domestic Product GDP augmented or extended with other complementary indicators Green Economy Coalition Global Environmental Facility Global Green Growth Institute Greenhouse gas Local Governments for Sustainability (before 2003, ICLEI stood for International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives) Information and communications technology Institute for Global Environmental Strategies International Institute for Sustainable Development Integrated Research on Disaster Risk Knowledge and capacity building for sustainable development (also Knowledge sharing and capacity building for sustainable development) Korea Environment Institute Knowledge management Long-range Energy Alternatives Planning System The nine sector groups officially identified by Agenda 21: Business and Industry, Children and Youth, Farmers, Indigenous Peoples, Local Authorities, NGOs, Scientific and Technological Community, Women, Workers and Trade Unions Millennium Development Goals Global Network of Councils for Sustainable Development new economics foundation (lower-case letters in the name and the acronym are part of the organizations brand) Non-Governmental Organization Official Development Assistance Overseas Development Institute Open Work Group on Sustainable Development Goals The agenda of UN sustainable development activity expected after 2015, when the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are to be replaced by new Sustainable Development Gaols (SDGs), among other changes Research and development United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (2012)
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MDG NCSDS nef NGO ODA ODI OWG Post-2015

R&D Rio+20

RoK SD SDG SDPlanNet SEI SF SIWI SUNY UN UNCRD UNDESA UNDP UNEP UNESCAP UNF UNOSD UNSG WEAP

Republic of Korea Sustainable Development Sustainable Development Goals Network for Integrated Planning and Sustainable Development Strategies Stockholm Environment Institute Stakeholder Forum Stockholm International Water Institute State University of New York United Nations United Nations Center for Regional Development United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs United Nations Development Program United Nations Environment Program United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (often shortened to ESCAP) United Nations Foundation United Nations Office for Sustainable Development United Nations Secretary General (sometimes shortened to SG) Water Evaluation and Planning System

Section 1. The Outcome Document

Bridging Knowledge and Capacity Gaps for Sustainability Transition: A Framework for Action

1. We, representatives and experts of countries, the United Nations system, advocacy networks, civil society, and academic and policy institutions, participated in the Expert Consultation on Knowledge and Capacity Needs for Sustainable Development in Post Rio+20 Era organized by the United Nations Office for Sustainable Development (UNOSD) together with its partners in Incheon, Republic of Korea from March 6 to 8, 2013 (see participant list in Annex 1). 2. We took stock of existing knowledge and capacity building models, platforms and initiatives contributing towards sustainability transition; examined how Member States and other stakeholders could make best use of available resources and platforms to meet their knowledge and capacity needs; assessed success stories, trends, needs, and gaps in knowledge and capacity for advancing sustainable development in a post-Rio+20 context; and examined ways to facilitate communication and collaboration between knowledge providers and users. 3. We considered the impressive quantity and quality of knowledge already developed, shared, and applied to policy innovation and implementation, and how such knowledge is evaluated for further improvement in a continuous cycle of development, exchange and use. A number of new knowledge sharing initiatives have emerged in the post-Rio+20 context. 4. We noted with concern the persistent gaps in certain areas of knowledge development, exchange and application, particularly with respect to: the transformation of knowledge management from treating knowledge as a stock to managing knowledge flows; use of knowledge in sustainability governance; integrated planning methods; sustainability measurement, monitoring and evaluation; and the lack of knowledge development, exchange and use specific to sustainability transition policy processes, notably on stakeholder engagement strategies and options for mobilising them towards accelerated transitions towards more sustainable lifestyles and carbon footprints. 5. We recognized the urgent need for transitioning towards sustainability, especially in the post Rio+20 era, because our path to progress is threatened with growing obstacles, including exceeding several planetary boundaries most prominent among them being climate change. We are of the view that transition towards sustainability requires efforts on several fronts, but knowledge sharing and capacity building should be the fundamental platform for these efforts. 6. Accordingly, during this meeting, we discussed how to build further on existing knowledge and contributed to defining future needs with regard to the mapping of sustainability research and capacity building organisations; preparation for the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals; and facilitation of greater exchange

through tailored dissemination, training, mentoring, peer assistance, and other forms of capacity building. 7. Against this background and the mandate that Member States have explicitly given the UN System in paragraph 66 of the Rio+20 Outcome Document, The Future we Want, which calls for identifying and matching knowledge sources and providers to the various needs of Member States, we propose the following Framework for Action. We consider this Framework for Action to be an essential step towards consolidating, aligning and strengthening global efforts to advance knowledge and capacity building for sustainable development. 8. This Framework for Action identifies a number of Priority Action Areas based on our assessment of needs relative to knowledge sharing and capacity building for sustainable development. We believe that these Priority Action Areas are of the utmost importance if the pace of transition towards sustainability is to be accelerated. These actions are: Priority Action Areas a. Ensure inclusion of sustainable development knowledge and capacity building in formal planning processes, such as National Sustainable Development Strategies, for effective planning and implementation at the national, regional, and local levels. b. Spread the understanding that knowledge and capacity building for sustainable development needs to be fully integrated from national to local levels, and broadly across all relevant sectors of society c. Focus capacity building efforts not on individuals, but on the long-term development of organizations and institutions, to ensure continuity and long-lasting impact d. Create an enabling environment for knowledge sharing and capacity building by: (i) integrating sustainability principles into legislative frameworks and actions, (ii) revitalizing national sustainable development councils and roundtables, and (iii) facilitating peer learning, whether between countries at similar levels of development, cities, rural communities, or individual farmers e. Maintain a continuously updated map of initiatives and programs, and facilitate cooperation, collaboration, and partnership among them f. Catalogue the most successful working models, and spread them, acknowledging that all such models need to be tailored and adapted to national and local conditions, including the areas where peace building and conflict resolution efforts are underway g. Develop a concrete and practical language to communicate about knowledge sharing and capacity building across different cultures, disciplines, and institutions h. Emphasize an integrated approach to addressing the core sustainability challenges of climate change adaptation and mitigation, water management, food security, and sustainable energy in anticipation of the adoption of Sustainable Development Goals. 9. Implementation of these recommendations should be pursued by practitioners and organizations at all levels, including regional and sub-regional levels, through their own modeling of these practices as well as in the development of partnerships among them, to accelerate the spread of these principles to others. Moreover, implementation of these recommendations should be backed by strengthened international resolve and cooperation.
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10. The UNOSD, together with other interested partners, can serve as a point of meeting and collaboration to support the mapping of initiatives and to help spread these principles further, as well as by providing access to a wide variety of knowledge and capacity building tools and services that will advance the implementation of these principles globally. 11. The above Framework for Action represents a shared consensus among the participants of this Consultation. Therefore, we recommend that all relevant ministries, agencies, departments, organizations, and other institutional stakeholders engaged in the pursuit of sustainable development consider this Framework when devising their own work programs and agendas for action. We further recommend that UNOSD should collaborate with other knowledge providers, and both promote and facilitate the linking and sharing of data and knowledge through open networks, avoiding the duplication of existing initiatives. 12. We call upon the UNOSD to disseminate this Framework for Action to all governments, United Nations agencies, multi-lateral organizations, and other institutions and stakeholders and to propose that they embrace it as an agenda for the advancement of knowledge and capacity building for sustainable development. The UNOSD should also submit this Framework for Action to the high-level political forum on sustainable development upon its establishment, as well as to the Open Working Group on Sustainable Development Goals, the Expert Committee on a Sustainable Development Financing Strategy, and other appropriate fora. Incheon, Republic of Korea March 8, 2013

Section 2. A Narrative Summary of the Expert Consultation

DAY 1: Wednesday, 6 March 2013
The meeting opened with a series of short speeches and welcome messages from dignitaries, including Mr. Nikhil Seth, Director, Division for Sustainable Development, UNDESA; Mr. Mohamed Aslam Chaudhry, Director, UNOSD; Mr. Song Jae-Young, Deputy Minister of Environment, Republic of Korea; and Mr. Young-Gil Song, Mayor of Incheon Metropolitan City. All speakers stressed the importance of this meeting and its topic, in the context of the challenges of sustainable development. These challenges noted stretched from global resource, food, energy, water, economic, and ecosystem stresses such as climate change, to the local problem of transboundary air pollution experienced in Incheon (described in telling detail by Mayor Song). We all know how urgent this is, said Mr. Seth. Increasingly extreme weather and hydrological events are all reminders of our perilous state. Mr. Song Jae-Young, who summarized also the evolution of his own countrys steadily increasing engagement with sustainable development over more than a decade, expressed certainty that the Expert Consultation would be a very meaningful meeting. Mr. Seth noted that this meeting was a call for the participants candid observations and analysis. Mr. Chaudhry, in welcoming participants to UNOSDs second formal expert consultation, emphasized that the discussions should be open and frank and that there were no political stakes involved here. These comments set an honest and welcoming tone that quickly carried over into the presentations and discussions. In Session 1, the presentations focused on the state of the art with regard to knowledge and capacity building for sustainable development, and considered the needs and gaps that characterize the field today. (For simplicity, we will use the acronym KCSD for the remainder of this report.) Two short keynotes set the scene. The first focused on the central importance of knowledge-sharing and the transfer of technology to sustainable development, as well as south-south cooperation. The second used a metaphor to describe the predicament of sustainable development in the early 21st century, likening the current state of the global economy to a gondola or balloon. The economy aspires to go higher and higher, attempting to meet the needs and aspirations of the world. But as it rises, it is increasingly Slide courtesy Lszl Pintr weighed down by ballast in the form of debts and risks, economic, social, and ecological. Bailouts work for a time shed the economic debts (as though one were casting out ballast) and keep the balloon rising; but the social and ecological debts and risks continue to grow. The balloon needs better instruments and

indicators to help it understand what is happening and to navigate this challenging situation; but ultimately, it also may need a new strategy, one that is not dependent on rising endlessly higher, since social and ecological debts cannot be bailed out. The opening panelists then mapped out the extremely complex topical, institutional, and network terrain that characterizes knowledge for sustainable development. Professionals must navigate effectively through dozens of demanding intellectual topics ranging from human rights to poverty eradication to climate change, while also being familiar with the hundreds of different programs, institutions, agencies, networks, tools, and methodologies on offer. They must then apply that knowledge to their own complicated national or local contexts. Meanwhile, the quantity and complexity of this information continues to grow exponentially. Faced with this enormous challenge, it is possible to see topics such as Green Economy, Green Growth, Education for Sustainable Development and other current concepts as clustering strategies for managing complexity. These clusters are used in different contexts and attract different supporters and constituencies; and yet they all belong to the concept of sustainable development. For users, these clusters help to define aspects of sustainable development in somewhat more narrow terms, without losing its systemic and cross-cutting nature, to support action within their domains of interest. Clustering makes the complexity more manageable, but other new concepts are needed to make sense of the changes caused by the accelerating production of knowledge, its expanding availability through Internet-enabled media devices, and the way this fuels the expectations of citizens who want to have a greater say in how decisions are made. Drawing on background studies performed by UNOSD, several key phrases and metaphors were introduced to the participants, who quickly adopted them in their own questions and interventions during the remainder of the meeting. These phrases and metaphors are increasingly shaping the practice of KCSD (and indeed the practice knowledge management and capacity development generally). They include: The shift in knowledge management from stock to flow. It is more important to focus on the movement of knowledge through systems and to people, rather than on its accumulation within knowledge bases and institutions. The increasing emphasis on boundary work. The spread of sustainable development knowledge and capacity requires better two-way communication across sectoral and disciplinary boundaries of all kind. The rise of networked governance. Policy formation and implementation increasingly depend on governance processes that extend far beyond governments to more actively include other institutions and civil society. The need for improved integration in decision-making. Integration was a recurring theme throughout the Consultation and refers to very practical considerations, such as how to optimize policy making at the nexus of water, energy, and agriculture in the context of climate change. These terms and ideas are spreading relatively quickly. However, even among experienced practitioners and network managers, managing the flow of knowledge and linking this flow effectively to integrated policy making and decision processes is very challenging.

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Significant problems were reported in establishing and maintaining vital communities of practice for KCSD, where knowledge, tools, and experience are exchanged and commented on, usually in a virtual or online environment. Partnership was identified as a key strategy for success by several speakers, and the metaphor of dancing was introduced as a way to describe how partnership works in practice. Partners must learn each others dance steps and rhythms, avoid stepping on each others toes, and even learn to change partners once in a while. While the focus of the Expert Consultation was on the present and future of KCSD, participants were also reminded that there are many important lessons to be harvested from the past. The 1990s in particular, in the aftermath of the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio and Agenda 21, saw an explosion of experimentation in the form of national councils of sustainable development, round tables, and Local Agenda 21s, each with their own approaches to learning, sharing knowledge, building capacity, and assessing performance. These lessons should not be lost as the world moves deeper into the post-Rio+20 period; and indeed, some of those models might need to be revived and updated for a new era of sustainable development policy and practice. The dialogue session after the presentations focused on practical concerns. Ideas such as these must be expressed in clear terms with practical examples, and applied at the regional level. They must also be translated into local languages and made more accessible, especially to grassroots and civil society groups. KCSD does not immediately solve the problem of perceived trade-offs, especially when there appear to be winners and losers on shorter time scales. The gap between policy makers and KCSD practitioners needs to be bridged or even erased entirely, as one country representative noted, so that all policy makers become practitioners of sustainable development. Finally, despite the growing importance of more group- and institution-based capacity-building approaches, the role of leaders and champions is still crucial to advancing sustainable development. Unless we have that, we wont have people focusing on [KCSD]. The afternoon session divided the meeting in two, with Working Group 1 focused on lessons learned from current practice (what makes KCSD initiatives successful or not), and Working Group 2 looking a bit more forward toward the changing landscape of SD practice in the post-Rio+20 era, including the impact of new technologies and institutional as well as other social relationships. These Working Groups (sometimes working in small discussion group formats) produced a set of insights that proved important to the development of the Framework for Action, including the need for: High-level government commitment to capacity building efforts. Including sustainability principles into national constitutional or legislative frameworks. Greater integration between capacity building efforts at international, regional, national and local levels. Clear public reporting on the results of sustainability initiatives. Coordinating capacity building programs so that successful approaches are spread and so that coalitions can leverage the strengths of diverse partners. Focusing capacity building efforts on the organization rather than the individual. Integrating capacity development into planning process (which requires political
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will). Supplementing online interactions with face-to-face meetings to sustain network relationships over the long term.

DAY 2: Thursday, 7 March 2013

After a recap of the previous days main points, the Consultation turned its attention to the KCSD needs in the specific topical areas of water, energy, and food, and to their systemic inter-linkages in the context of poverty eradication a concept increasingly known by the term nexus. The day opened with a cautionary keynote address on the severity of global challenges, using photographic images. These images (showing, for example, mountains of plastic and its effect on wildlife) reminded the participants that use of the term sustainable development can often lack precision or even meaning, and labeling a thing as green does not make it so. Even education itself may not be unambiguously good if it is equipping people to be forces of more efficient destruction. But there are many relevant competencies that are inherent in approaches to Education for Sustainable Development (ESD), and these can inform an overall approach to KCSD, including ESDs emphasis on integration, innovation, and a systems orientation. Panelists then presented perspectives on KCSD in the context of water, energy, and food production. The cautionary tone persisted: while great progress has been made in building capacity for integrated water resource management, for example, real impacts from these approaches are still lagging in transboundary water management. The UN Sustainable Energy for All campaign sets new and important goals, and shows great promise to deliver on those goals, but it has taken up to forty years for awareness of energys centrality (in the context of sustainable development and poverty eradication) to reach this level of global attention. And while focusing on the nexus to address food security is a rising and promising area of practice, working tools and good examples are still relatively scarce. Tools and success stories do exist, in all of these domains, and they can be built on. With a long-term approach, meaningful partnerships, a focus on big win areas of action (such as the deployment of more efficient technologies), and prioritizing the building of more capacity and tools for systemic approaches tackling these problems, real and more accelerated change is possible. The potential in energy efficiency alone is truly enormous, because energy systems are so hugely inefficient: a car, for example, can be as little as 1% efficient in transporting a person from point A to point B. Knowledge management and knowledge sharing is a key foundation in any of this work, and good practice examples abound, from FAOs knowledge-oriented Share Fairs to the decades-old Japanese practice of Satoyama, which uses cultural practices to ensure a long term, sustainable approach to food production, combining low-carbon agriculture with good stewardship of forests in mountainous regions. (Satoyama is enjoying a comeback lately, as increasing numbers of Japanese young people choose to leave the cities and take up smaller scale rural lives that they find more meaningful and satisfying. The transfer of knowledge from Satoyamas mostly elderly practitioners to this new generation is happening just in time.)

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Effective tools for integration are also being used in practice, from Stockholm Environment Institutes LEAP and WEAP modeling software which model energy and water scenarios respectively, and which can talk to each other to make sure the water and energy policy choices make sense when operating together to the Sustainable Food Lab, which brings both systems insights and multi-sectoral decision-makers together in the nexus. The dialog among delegates after this second set of plenary presentations focused mainly on how to questions, such as: How do we integrate cultural and religious practices? How can the interlinked nexus approach be made to work in practical terms? How do we engage the business sector while avoiding greenwashing? How have working models like Satoyama been sustained so long, and what can we learn from them? How do we optimize capacity building given the multiple challenges at the nexus, such as water management and climate change?

Respondents noted that many of the how tos in this area were highly dependent on the local context, including local value sets, which can be very sustainable in another sense (i.e. resistant to change) themselves. Focusing on the working models that do exist such as successful efforts to model the nexus with integrated modeling tools for policy development, or changes in economic price signals that have unlocked innovation and change is a place to start, adapting these to local needs, conditions, languages, etc. We cannot avoid addressing the complex nexus between domains if sustainable development is to become an operational concept; but much more needs to be done to achieve such integration. Improved, accelerated knowledge flow and capacity building, adapted to local conditions, is critical. The afternoon Working Groups focused on three key aspects of the nexus and the special knowledge and capacity needs attached to them: water management, sustainable energy access for all, and sustainable agriculture and food security. Climate change severely impacts both the urgency and the difficulty of meeting global needs in all three domains. Presentations in the water group cautioned against an over-reliance on traditional water control mechanisms, and for adopting a more flexible risk-management approach, given multiple challenges such as urban flooding and the need to adapt agricultural practices to new precipitation regimes. In the energy group, presenters noted that energy access for the poor is still advancing much too slowly, but that existing mechanisms for technology development, transfer and finance restrict the available diffusion pathways and provide limited alternative options. The food security group considered the enormous complexity of the challenge now put forward by the UN Secretary-General: zero hunger by 2030. Declining land and resources plus the increasing pressure of climate change is pushing humanity to accelerate innovation toward ever more efficient agricultural technologies and food distribution regimes. These can be supported by intensified information and telecommunications, to spread knowledge of all kinds (from technology advances to market shifts) faster, all the way to small farmers.

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The discussions in these Working Group sessions also underscored the extreme diversity of conditions that confront different countries on all of these issues, from dealing with local post-conflict (or current conflict) conditions to grappling with the turbulent economic demands of a globalized world market. However, in spite of that diversity, and also because of it, all groups recognized the urgent need for greater levels of international cooperation, coordination, and tapping into local and indigenous wisdom in the provision of knowledge and capacity building; and for doing this across sectors, among countries, and vertically from national to local level. Key conclusions from the Working Group sessions on Day 2 included the need to: Focus on resilience in order to cope with a wide range of climate change scenario impacts Incorporate local and indigenous knowledge Consider adaptation and mitigation together, and to include indigenous knowledge as well as the private sector when doing so Optimise and integrate training, facilitation and networking Involve a wide range of actors Help countries acquire the key competencies necessary to implement Sustainable Energy for All Increase institutional cooperation and partnership, including expanding partnerships across sectoral and international boundaries Identify key actors in any KCSD process, including educational centers, small and medium-sized enterprises, local community groups, and the media Continuously map the needs and available resources Carefully monitor emerging innovations in fields such as agro-ecology, biotechnology, synthetic biology, and more.

DAY 3: Friday, 8 March 2013

The final day of this Expert Consultation focused on the Post-Rio+20 process itself, and specifically on the relationship between the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that are now in development, and the needs that these goals would generate for knowledge and capacity building. The presenters, working in two Expert Panels, provided delegates with an executive briefing on the status of the SDG process and related governance issues. They also provided a set of diverse perspectives on those topics, stretching from UN headquarters in New York to grassroots NGOs in Asia. Expert Panel 1 This panel focused on the Sustainable Development Goals themselves and on issues related to SD governance. (See the attached Meeting Agenda, Issues Note 1, for more details.) The SDG process, which was mandated by the outcome document from Rio+20, The Future We Want, is just getting started. (Indeed, it had still not formally started at the time of this Expert Consultation.1) The SDG agenda, and the vision the SDGs must reflect for the 21st century, is hugely ambitious: all human needs met, and zero poverty, by 2030, combined with the protection of Earths ecosystems. The long-lived dichotomy between development and
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The first meeting of the UN Open Working Group on Sustainable Development Goals was held on March 14-15, 2013.

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environment must be closed and it must be closed by a global population that is rapidly aging as well: by 2030, one-third of humanity will be 60 years of age or older. This demographic shift, dubbed by some the emergence of the wisdom generation, creates additional challenges, but also opportunities to learn from experience and make change. The development of new Sustainable Development Goals means that we must also have new Sustainable Development Indicators. Efforts to produce these should learn the lessons of recent history and not be relegated to statistical offices, leaving little contact with policy making. The indicators must be fully integrated with SD visions and goals, firmly wedded to implementation mechanisms, and acceptable to multiple audiences. The recent developments in the Beyond GDP movement are promising, as new complementary indicators are being developed around the world covering different aspects of sustainable development such as a Green Economy or National Wellbeing. But we must avoid creating an indicator Tower of Babel, and use our experience and our existing knowledge to fashion indicators for the SDGs that truly meet our needs. This will, of course, require significant knowledge sharing and capacity building. These processes could be effectively supported by civil society organizations (CSOs), which have played an increasingly important role and have been integrated into UN processes more effectively over time. In the spirit of boundary work and networked governance, CSOs would be essential partners in anchoring the SDGs through regions and sub-regions down to the local level, and in spreading the essential knowledge and capacity needed for implementation. But getting the Goals right is a critical first step, because otherwise the priorities for other things, including finance and investment, will not be aimed in the right direction. The Goals will have to deal with the dilemma of growth: some places need significantly more of it, while others need to significantly shrink their material footprints, even as they grow their economies in GDP terms. The question of financing the SDGs is an important puzzle to solve. The MDGs had no explicit financing mechanism. Money flows were indirectly related, and this could end up to be the same for the SDGs; but that would not likely be sufficient to achieve the necessary results. A more integrated approach to finance and implementation is called for, one that is much larger scale and that bakes in the need for climate adaptation and resilience, as well as proven transformation strategies such as feed-in tariffs for renewable energy. There is a strong possibility that Official Development Assistance (ODA) might increasingly be performance based tied to key indicators and outcomes in order to increase the willingness of donor countries to provide the levels of investment needed. Clearly, all these issues signal a need for greater knowledge and capacity building. The interactive discussions after the first morning panel added the following insights from the delegates: There are already many indicators and conceptual policy frameworks available to support a more expanded and integrated view, but incentives to use these in working policy frameworks are still lacking. Policy frameworks alone are not enough, as the achievement of SD goals is intertwined with capacity building needs, especially in developing countries.

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CSOs are a vital and increasingly important part of the process, both in formulating policies and in implementing them. But they are underfunded, and creative, integrated financing mechanisms are needed to support their effective participation. (Even some governments have trouble paying for participation in processes such as the Open Working Group on the Sustainable Development Goals.) It is important that money from new sources such as the Green Climate Fund not act as a replacement for Official Development Assistance, as many countries are still struggling with structural adjustment. The private sector also needs to be integrated more effectively. The Major Groups system developed after Agenda 21 may be in need of reform to include other groups that are currently marginalized in official consultations. It may be difficult to link new financing to performance outcomes when many of those outcomes are intangible and difficult to measure, especially in the area of capacity development.

Expert Panel 2 This panel dealt with Accelerating transition towards sustainability including green economy; and it focused on concepts, procedural mechanisms, and financing challenges. (See the attached Meeting Agenda, Issues Note 2, for more details.) The presenters in this panel took up the issues of Green Growth, the Green Economy, and their relationship to Sustainable Development. These concepts often get mixed up in the literature, but one increasingly sees the following formulation taking root: Green Growth is one strategy for achieving a Green Economy, which in turn is one necessary (but not sufficient) element of Sustainable Development. These concepts can, in turn, be viewed in light of the increasing emphasis on moving beyond GDP to new measures of economic progress that include human well-being and happiness and that do not assume the necessity of ever-expanding resource use on a finite planet. (United Nations statisticians may initially have been resistant to such formulations, but acceptance of GDP+ has grown, and work is beginning on a post-2015 formulation for indicators attached to the Sustainable Development Goals.2) But new concepts such as the Green Economy are not the only tools available. Other implementation mechanisms were also a significant focus of discussion, picking up on themes from earlier in the day: CSOs have an increasingly important role to play, and there were lessons to be learned from the previous twenty years of work on sustainable development. Some of the mechanisms invented after the 1992 Earth Summit most of which died away at the end of the 1990s may have some value going forward, at least in terms of what their intent was at the time: to enhance citizen participation and anchor the global Agenda 21 outcomes in regional and local practice. Financing and investment, as noted earlier in the day, is a particularly important piece of the
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Note that at the recent World Forum on Measuring Well-Being for Development and Policy-Making, hosted by the OECD and the Government of India, it was widely reported by many national statisticians that numerous country governments are also moving solidly in this direction. See: http://www.oecd.org/site/worldforumindia/

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puzzle. One of the biggest puzzles is how to deal with existing capital investments in high-carbon infrastructure: should those be retired early in favor of low-carbon infrastructure? Yes, if we are to have any hope of protecting the climate. But how? By looking closely at two key factors: the discount rates that determine their present and perceived future value (these are too high given the damage they will cause over time); and consideration of the net benefit of shifting to a low-carbon economy while preserving a perceived high quality of life. Changes here would make early retirement of apparently locked-in capital investment more attractive, and other similar policy and investment mechanisms could make the alternatives more attractive as well. Changes such as these are, however, demanding and difficult. One of the demands included in such approaches is a shift to more evidence-based policy-making a general need in many sustainability domains. While the Consultation discussions were mostly focused on knowledge flow up to this point, the issue of knowledge creation (e.g. research) now entered the dialogue, but in a similarly collaborative spirit. Involving decision-makers more actively in relevant research processes (e.g. on how to retire high-carbon infrastructure and replace it with the low-carbon variety, or how to develop climate-smart agriculture) could increase confidence in the results of those research efforts and speed their path to implementation. This is an example of what networked governance looks like in practice. Returning to the issue of Green Growth and the Green Economy, regardless of how one interprets these concepts, it remains the case that there is a lack of capacities at all levels: knowledge, finance, institutional, etc. Things are moving in the right direction, but not fast enough though there are good examples of knowledge sharing and capacity building programs in a number of countries. The host country for this meeting, Republic of Korea, received special appreciation for the many programs and initiatives it has sponsored to help accelerate change in this direction. The dialog sessions in connection with this plenary discussion focused mainly on the needs of countries in implementing sustainable development and related policy approaches such as Green Growth and Green Economy. Delegates who spoke sought clarification and help in order to: Involve civil society effectively, not just in giving input but in doing real policy implementation Not just define what a Green Economy looks like, but receive real guidance on how to get there Bridge the gap between policy and implementation, and also build genuine national-level support for both the policies and the implementation (it was noted that perhaps Green Growth approaches can provide part of the answer to this, in a developing country context) Secure sufficient financing, not only to implement strategies associated with the Sustainable Development Goals, but even just to participate in the Open Working Group and the other processes that will define the SDGs (many countries lack budgets for this) Reach out beyond the Major Groups defined twenty years ago to include other
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The Closing Plenary Over lunch, a draft of the Framework for Action whose core Priority Action Areas had been distilled from the Working Group discussions and plenary inputs was circulated to the delegates for review. In the final plenary itself, Working Group Rapporteurs first presented short summaries of the key findings from each discussion. Then Mr. Nikhil Seth, chair of the session, opened the floor for comments and suggestions on the draft Framework for Action. He requested that suggestions be provided in written text form to the UNOSD staff. The general tone of the comments was very positive. Delegates approved of the text, and offered several suggestions by way of addition and improvement. No requests to remove any part of the draft text were received. On this sense of general approval of the outcome document, and with the promise of the UNOSD staff to carefully consider all the suggestions for improvement that had been received, Mr. Seth warmly thanked all the delegates as well as the UNOSD staff for their hard work and their active participation, and adjourned the meeting.

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Section 3. Presentation Summaries

Opening Session, March 6, 2013 [Day 1]
Opening remarks: Mr. Nikhil Seth, Director, DSD/UNDESA, New York Mr. Seth welcomed the participants and described this Expert Consultations purpose in the context of Rio+20 and the post-2015 agenda. He summarized the threats and challenges facing humanity and underscored the urgency of leadership, engagement and action, especially in the area of knowledge and capacity building (KCSD). He noted that the UN is generally responding to this call and described the close cooperation between the UNOSD and the Division for Sustainable Development in enhancing knowledge exchange. This consultation was important, he said, for three reasons: (1) responding to the Member States request at Rio+20 for more support on KCSD; (2) learning what needs and gaps exist that UNOSD can fill; and (3) providing guidance on the development of UNOSDs programming in the future. The Consultation was also a chance for the sharing of experiences among countries and the exploration of how to integrate policy making more effectively, as well as how to close the gap between policy and implementation. He noted that there were many experienced people in attendance who could contribute to this exploration and to the development of the proposed Framework for Action. He also thanked the two other partners for this event, the Asia-Europe Foundation, and the United Nations Center for Regional Development. Introduction of the expert consultation: Muhammad A. Chaudhry, Head of UNOSD Mr. Chaudhry extended a warm welcome to all the participants and noted that the purpose of the consultation was to explore what technical and policy knowledge and capacities were needed to foster transition towards sustainability. He noted that many of the delegates in attendance had also participated in UNOSDs November, 2012 expert consultation on national sustainable development planning, and that the number of practitioners attending UNOSDs events was growing. Progress on sustainable development generally was, however, slow and uneven. Actions outlined in The Future We Want were intended to speed up that progress, but they would also require new knowledge, ideas and skills, as well as effective approaches to capacity building. The purpose of this multi-stakeholder dialogue was therefore to take stock of the present situation in KCSD, examine how countries can make used use of available resources, identify gaps and needs, and find ways to increase collaboration among stakeholders to fill those needs. He described the flow of the meeting over three days and the intent to produce a Framework for Action, those areas which should assume center stage in the development of KCSD going forward. He encouraged the participants to be open and frank in sharing their views. Welcoming remarks: Mr. Song Jae-Young, Deputy Minister of Environment, Republic of Korea Mr. Song Jae-Young also welcomed the participants on behalf of the Republic of Korea and described the meeting and its purpose as very meaningful. He described the Republic of Koreas history of engagement with sustainable development, starting with its national Commission on Sustainable Development in 2000, the National Vision on Sustainable Development launched in 2005, and the launch of its low-carbon green growth strategy in 2008. These efforts were paradigm-shifting in RoK, and will continue under the new

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governments administration, which has made a clean and sustainable environment one of is 23 key strategies. He further asked for the continued support and engagement of all participants in building better understanding between countries and pursuing this very important agenda. He offered a well-known Korean saying, Great things are done by a series of small things brought together, and offered his sincere wish that this Expert Consultation would be a contribution to the overall goal of sustainable development. Welcoming remarks: Mr. Song Young-Gil, Mayor of Incheon Metropolitan City. Mr. Song Young-Gil welcomed participants to Incheon and, departing from his prepared remarks, described some of the challenges his city is grappling with now, such as transboundary air pollution. He also described several of the initiatives that Incheon is pursuing in order to transform ... into a green city. To underscore the importance of sustainable development, he described how deforestation in neighboring regions have left some mountain areas denuded, so that even small rainstorms can cause big floods. It is important to break the vicious circle of environmental damage causing economic problems, which in turn drive more unsustainable harvesting of natural resources. Incheon is becoming a hub of United Nations activity, with the latest addition being the Green Climate Fund (GCF), whose secretariat will be opened in Incheon next year. He hoped that UNOSD would work closely with the GCF in the years to come. Keynote remarks: Mr. Byung-Wook Lee, President, Korea Environment Institute, Seoul, ROK Mr. Lee expressed strong support for UNOSDs focus on knowledge and capacity building of practitioners around the world. He noted that four years after the financial crisis began, we are still facing great challenges economically; and that while progress was made on the Millennium Development Goals, there remains much to be done. The interlinked nature of sustainable development issues makes them especially challenging, requiring strong political will, effective financing, technological development, strengthened institutional capacities, international cooperation, and strong governance at all levels. He stressed the importance of technology transfer. The Green Economy, he noted, should be flexible and tailored to accommodate each nations circumstances. He expressed appreciation to UNOSD and the other sponsoring partners in hosting this Expert Consultation. Keynote remarks: Mr. Lszl Pintr, Professor, Department of Environmental Sciences and Policy, CEU, Budapest, Hungary. Mr. Pintr addressed the importance of using stories and metaphors to convey the challenging complexity of sustainable development problems. When asked to explain his work to school children, for example, he uses the metaphor of being an astronaut: we are all astronauts on Spaceship Earth and must take care of it. To the explain the challenge of economic growth on a finite planet, he uses the metaphor of a balloon voyage. We want to go higher and higher, but we are weighed down by increasing debts and risks, economic as well as social and ecological. The economic debts can be dealt with through bailouts, which are like shedding ballast from the balloon; be we cannot shed the social and ecological debts and risks so easily. Meanwhile, the balloon is heading into storm conditions (climate change, water shortages, etc.). We need better instruments (indicators, goals, a map), as well as better knowledge and capacity for our pilots: hence the importance of this meeting for helping the world change course and head for sustainable outcomes.

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Session 1 (Plenary): Knowledge and capacity needs and gaps for sustainable development [Day 1]
Chair: Mr. Nikhil Seth, Director, DSD/DESA, United Nations, New York Rapporteur: Ms. Chikako Takase, Director, UNCRD, Nagoya Mr. Alan AtKisson, UNOSD Consultant, Stockholm: Knowledge and capacity needs for sustainable development in post Rio era Mr. AtKisson presented a summary of the background global review he prepared for this meeting (available at the UNOSD.org website). The field of knowledge for sustainable development is enormous and is growing exponentially (as is all knowledge). This is prompting important shifts in how knowledge is managed, shared, and validated, including a fundamental shift from seeing knowledge as a stock to managing it as a flow. He also introduced two key terms of increasing importance: boundary work for managing the transfer across sectors, disciplines, etc.; and networked governance for making the policy process more inclusive and effective. Terms such as Green Economy, Green Growth or Education for Sustainable Development can be seen as reflecting different knowledge management strategies, linked to different constituencies. He reviewed the global data gathered for UNOSD on KCSD providers, programs, and networks, and emphasized that partnership among these diverse actors was an important key to success going forward. Mr. Franois Fortier, Senior Sustainable Development Expert, UNOSD, Incheon: Mapping of issues, strategies and initiatives in sustainable development: a preliminary analysis Mr. Fortier began with the essentials: knowledge is what we use to change reality, and knowledge management processes enhance the building, exchange, and use of knowledge. He presented a knowledge management (KM) model for the UNOSD, in three main parts: the production and organizing of knowledge; its dissemination (knowledge sharing); and its application in decision and design processes. This circular model was surrounded by an enabling environment, which includes all the institutional and technological elements that make the KM cycle possible. He noted that there are large stocks of knowledge, but it does not flow where it needs to, in order to accelerate sustainability transition. He reported on UNOSDs preliminary network mapping of KM institutions and programs and on how these reflect the ongoing shift to networked governance in policy formation, formulation, and implementation. He also showed how the UNOSD will be responding to these needs, through further mapping and matching exercises, knowledge brokering, training, guiding, networking and sharing. Mr. Peter King, Senior Policy Adviser, IGES, Bangkok: Strengthening knowledge-policy-practice interface towards sustainable development. Mr. King reported on the efforts of his organization to maintain a vital knowledge sharing platform for sustainable development practitioners in Asia. It is challenging: the secretariat of SDPlanNet has made 40 tools available and over 100 articles, but the blog attached to its web portal has received no comments (as an indicator of engagement). He noted that knowledge of SD is abundant, but practice is scarce. Moreover, SD practitioners are so spread out into different types of ministries and sectoral positions that they may not actually recognize each other as peers. In sum, the challenge of doing KCSD even among professionals in the SD community should not be underestimated, and we do not really know how to do it effectively yet, even though it remains essential. Passive online portals are no longer effective. Reducing the totality of SD to bite-size bits such as Green Economy could
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help. Ms. Grazyna Pulawska, Project Executive, Asia-Europe Foundation (ASEF), Singapore: Knowledge sharing and capacity building for sustainable development: lessons learned, challenges, and opportunities Ms. Pulawska reported on her organizations efforts to make knowledge flow between diverse stakeholders, through programs such as ENVForum, which brings together actors from Asia and Europe in a knowledge exchange setting. She invoked the metaphor of dancing: it involves learning steps, matching speed, signaling clearly to each other, etc. Collaboration in a knowledge-sharing context requires similar adjustments. The Asia-Europe Environmental Forum (also know as ENVForum, a project of the Asia-Europe Meeting, aka ASEM) has been dancing since 2003, with 49 country partners, and two international organizations: ASEAN and the European Commission. She also affirmed that the shift from stock to flow in knowledge management was real and tangible in the exchange programs she manages. Not only is the knowledge itself changing constantly; so are the people, the dance partners. One has to be aware of and adapt to this continuous change to make conferences, case study exchanges, and other collaboration processes work effectively. She also shared numerous recommendations for the SDG process that have emerged through ASEMs exchanges (see the slide presentation at UNOSD.org). Mr. Felix Dodds,Tellus Institute, USA: Stakeholder engagement in knowledge sharing and capacity building for sustainable development: experiences and lessons learned Mr. Dodds drew on his personal experience over twenty years to make links between the knowledge sharing challenges of today, and those that were experienced in earlier post-Rio era (the 1990s after the Earth Summit in Rio, 1992). Processes were created then, many of which no longer exist, whose purpose was to facilitate capacity development for the implementation of Agenda 21. In some ways these were most effective at the local level, mediated by NGOs such as ICLEI. The NGO he formerly ran, Stakeholder Forum, was involved in many similar efforts, such as a Toolkit for Women after the Johannesburg meeting of 2002. He called for re-invigorating some of these earlier efforts, such as the Capacity 2015 program that was created to support the MDGs. Maybe we need a Capacity 2030 process, said Dodds, focused around the SDGs and the post-2015 agenda. This initiative would build on the lessons of 1993-2012 build capacity, share experience, and focus on clear deliverables linked to the SDGs.

Session 2: Parallel Working Group Sessions [Day 1] Mapping of who is doing what and how: sharing of experiences and lessons learned
Working Group 1: Experiences from different knowledge and capacity building programmes and networks in sustainable development: what has worked and what has not?
Chair/Facilitator: Mr. Alan AtKisson, UNOSD consultant Rapporteur: Mr. Khalid Riaz, Professor of Management Sciences, Comsats University, Islamabad

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Mr. Felix Dodds, Tellus Institute, USA: Growth of SD knowledge and trends in its dissemination are knowledge networks competing or complementing? Mr. Dodds used the experience of Stakeholder Forum (SF) in creating the Global Transition 2012 initiative, in the run-up to Rio+20, as a case study. With partners at the New Economics Institute and new economics foundation [lower case letters for nef are on purpose and are part of the foundations brand], a well as support from the Green Economy Coalition, SF had created platform for the exchange of papers, the development of common principles for a Green Economy (built from previous UN declarations), and an interactive mapping function which he demonstrated live on the web (http://gtne.org). This worked reasonably well but experienced challenges that are common to all such efforts. He noted that bottom up approaches like Global Transition 2012 depend on constant promotion; if they do not achieve self-sustained virality, they are difficult to maintain. Working with UN and partner governments to ensure common database structures is also important. Finally, Mr. Dodds introduced a new initiative, the newly formed Global Network of National Councils for Sustainable Development (http://ncsds.org) which is also being administered by Stakeholder Forum. Mr. Kees Leendertse, Cap-Net UNDP, South Africa: Revisiting capacity building approaches and models: successes and failures Mr. Leendertse focused on what works, drawing on over ten years of experience with UNDPs Cap-Net program, which is focused on developing capacity in the water sector. His presentation picked up on earlier themes such as the need to focus more on institutions than individuals, and to integrate capacity building vertically from local to global. He suggested focusing on challenges and solutions rather than successes and failures. He listed many challenges, including limited access to knowledge generally as well as to formal relevant degree programs. Once capacity is raised, management regimes may also need to change, which can be an obstacle. But he listed equally many solutions, such as partnership development, study tours, mentoring, awards for performance, and the assembling of multi-discipinary teams and networks. Cap-Net has its own knowledge cycle as well (somewhat different than the one presented by Mr. Francois Fortier), noting that the specific choice of model was less important than having a model. He detailed some tools for managing networks effectively, and extended an invitation to participants to engage with such networks and with Cap-Nets dialogues and programs. Ms. Jane Rovins, Executive Director, Integrated Research on Disaster Risk, Beijing: Have knowledge platforms helped in strengthening capacities of developing countries in sustainable development? Ms. Rovins proposed that lessons from the disaster risk and preparedness community were highly relevant to sustainable development, and noted that many capacity building programs in that domain suffer from similar challenges, including lack of interest, capacity, knowledge, continuity (officials change jobs frequently), investment, planning, and commitment. The speed and scale of the growing problems in disaster risk are also similar to the situation in SD: disaster losses (in human and in financial terms) have rocketed up over the past twenty years. She raised the question: why do losses increase, when we already know so much, and are continually adding to our knowledge? One of the answers she pointed to was a lack of integration of such knowledge, especially at the local level where it is mostly needed. We have good data now proving that risk reduction strategies work; what is needed is to build a culture of prevention that fully integrates this learning into daily practice, from school children to senior officials. To this end, she has been working to establish common principles for disaster research and risk reduction that can be adopted and integrated internationally as

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Working Group 2: SD knowledge management for capacity building in the post Rio+20 era
Chair/Facilitator: Mr. Lszl Pintr, Professor, Department of Environmental Sciences and Policy, Central European University, Budapest Rapporteur: Ms. Eva Ludi, Overseas Development Institute, United Kingdom Mr. Kimo Goree, Director Reporting, IISD: Impact of knowledge platforms and networks in advancing sustainable development Mr. Gorees presentation focused on the changing knowledge management terrain and on what it takes to become a trusted source of information. He quoted author Clay Shirky: Its not information overload. Its filter failure. He described IISDs many years of building trust as an information provider, reporting from countless UN meetings and negotiating sessions, and demonstrated its most recent offerings in knowledge management, which take advantage of recent concepts and technologies in the field. He emphasized the critical role of open linked data, and described a possible role for UNOSD as the curator of a central open linked database of SD information to which other actors could relate themselves. Mr. Jacques Prescott, Associate Professor, Chair on Eco-Advising, Universit du Qubec: Challenges in connecting traditional capacity building models to new agendas and knowledge Mr. Prescott focused on the issue of empowerment as a critical success factor, emphasizing that can only be achieved through local ownership and participation. He took the example of the Seychelles national self-assessment of its own readiness to implement mutlilateral environmental agreements as an example: knowledge and capacity issues were at the heart of several key challenges. This result, said Mr. Prescott, can likely be extrapolated to many other countries. He detailed some of the solutions or needs identified, such as multi-party agreements on data sharing and joint research, as well as the general need to upgrade education and awareness programs with better tools, technology, and equipment. Returning to the theme of empowerment, he noted that sustained capacity advances depend on endogenous development of five key capabilities: self-organization, generating development results, establishing supportive relationships, adapting and self-renewing, and achieving coherence. KCSD programs should therefore focus on reinforcing these national (local) level capabilities and supporting the empowerment of local actors. Ms. Patrizia Cocca, Communication Officer & KM Coordinator, Global Environment Facility, Washington: Informing global stewardship from local experience: the GEF KM strategy Ms. Cocca reported on the experience of the Global Environment Facility and its Knowledge Management Strategy, which is closely tied to GEFs mission of helping countries to implement policies and programs that are funded by GEF to achieve outcomes with agreed-upon global benefits. These benefits, tied to international conventions, can include reducing desertification, mercury pollution, and biodiversity loss among others. GEFs role has turned it into a champion of the global commons and an engine for innovation, using its extensive funding power. KCSD activities are essential to achieving its goals, as GEF has experienced the common challenges related to integrating knowledge of new policies and practices into institutions. Ms. Cocca described GEFs extensive KCSD activities as well as

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Session 3: Unlocking the potential of water-energy- agriculture nexus for poverty eradication [Day 2]
Chair: Mr. Muhammad Aslam Chaudhry, Head of UNOSD Rapporteur: Mr. Peter King, Senior Policy Adviser, IGES, Bangkok Keynote address: Education and Capacity Building for Sustainability. Speaker: Mr. Arjen Wals, Professor of Social Learning and Sustainable Development, Wageningen University, The Netherlands Mr. Wals began his address with a set of shocking photographic images illustrating the scale of just one sustainable development problem: plastics in the environment. We plainly can what is not sustainable, he noted; defining what is sustainable is more difficult. Wikipedia, for example, identifies sustainable development as a form of growth, which is a sharply contested way to think about it. He noted that education may be equipping people to be more effective at destroying natural resources and consuming, rather than to be good stewards of a sustainable future. He presented several lenses for a more holistic educational approach which could also be applied to professional training and competence building: it should be integrative, critical, and transformative. Mr. Wals described sustainability competencies, which include understanding the dynamics of SD from an integrative, systems-oriented perspective, as well as from an innovation perspective. Sustainability, he said, needs more space, not just in formal curricula, but also in informal learning processes that blur the boundaries between institutional, community, and workplace-based learning. Mr. Anton Earle, Director, Capacity Development, SIWI, Stockholm: Capacity building in strengthening water cooperation for sustainable development - trends and results Mr. Earle linked his talk to the previous days discussions on the shift from stock to flow in knowledge management, and he noted that the same could be said of river management. Rivers, he said, are still managed as stocks rather than flows, even though flowing is the essence of what it means to be a river. He described the Stockholm International Water Institutes approach to capacity building, to increase that flow sensibility among over 1,000 water management officials in transboundary contexts. Water, he noted, is too scarce, too plentiful (flooding), or too dirty in too many parts of the world. To address these challenges SIWI pursues an integrated approach to KCSD which involves technical water management issues; the politics of building trust and confidence; and institutional development. Training, facilitation, and networking are critical skills. But, he asked, will we be able to recognize success when we achieve it? Indicators globally are still moving in the wrong direction, when it comes to water withdrawals and water quality. However, water-based conflict has been reduced considerably over the past 50 years, and cooperation has increased a very positive trend, but one whose obvious benefits are harder to measure. He advocated a long-term approach to capacity building in organizations, working for years, using multiple formats, in partnership with several institutions, and rooted in ongoing processes such as institution-building or relevant political negotiations.

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Mr. Mark Hopkins, International Energy Efficiency Director, United Nations Foundation, USA: Providing sustainable energy for all: need for additional knowledge and capacities Mr. Hopkins noted at the outset that access to energy was at the heart of humanitys major advances over thousands of years, and especially the rise of industrial societies in the past two hundred years. This historic underscores the need for the UN Secretary-Generals Sustainable Energy for All initiative, and its ambitious goals to make energy access universal, to double the global rate of improvement on energy efficiency, and to double share of renewable energy in the global mix by 2030. We have a tremendous stock of knowledge, said Mr. Hopkins, that has been assembled over decades. Whats missing is the effective communication of that knowledge, the capacity to use and implement it at the country level, and a global platform linking the global finance sector to national government leaders attempting to reform policy. He provided introductions and links to several of the best sites and organizational sources for energy information (see his slide presentation), and made a strong argument for a focus on energy efficiency, because of the enormous gains that remain to made there. Mr. Eric Kemp-Benedict, Director and Senior Scientist, Stockholm Environment Institute, Bangkok: Managing the water-energy-agriculture nexus for poverty eradication: evidence from the field Mr. Kemp-Benedict reflected on the tools available for managing the water, energy and agriculture nexus for poverty eradication. He gave several examples of using WEAP and LEAP, two widely available software tools developed by the Stockholm Environment Institute that deal with water and energy respectively, and described how the models talk to each other to help policy makers develop optimal planning scenarios. He described the benefits of solving water, energy, and agriculture problems in this more integrated way: for example, linking night-time illumination (which expands time for work and learning) and expanding pumping capacity can contribute to better agricultural yields and poverty eradication. He provided a conceptual model and some additional examples of this approach in his slide presentation, as well as an extended case study from northern Thailand where an integrated approach assisted local decision makers in evaluating options regarding biofuels production. Mr. Jacques Prescott, Associate Professor, Chair on Eco-Advising, Universit du Qubec: Learning from best practices in water, energy and sustainable agriculture Mr. Prescott described several initiatives he is working on that attempt to model best practice at the nexus, including work with the Sustainable Food Laboratory (http://sustainablefoodlab.org). He called for the promotion of energy efficiency as a high-leverage strategy for improving integrated performance, and emphasized the need to use knowledge management techniques specifically to improve and facilitate access to technologies. He applauded the work of FAOs knowledge forum, which facilitates and promotes collaboration using Share Fairs and other innovations. FAO also has excellent training to build awareness and competence, and provides knowledge sharing toolkits. Explaining these complex and necessary relations between water, food and energy is a critical task, so that people can adapt to changing situations. Existing tools need to be promoted, people need to be empowered, all the way down to smaller farmers. Prof. Prescott described several initiatives to do that; see his slides for details and web links.

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Mr. Masao Takano, Associate Professor, Graduate School of Environment Studies, Nagoya University, Japan: Advancing sustainable development: mainstreaming water-energy-sustainable agriculture in regional development planning context Mr. Takano presented a case study of regional KCSD in a sustainable context from Japan, the Satoyama movement. He emphasized the need to share not just knowledge, but a vision or image of a sustainable community. Satoyama communities, which practice a form of sustainable agriculture integrated with forest management in mountainous terrain, are one such image. The Satoyama process is low-carbon and promotes restoration of natural habitats, among other benefits. It had been close to dying out in Japan, but a recent influx of young people escaping from the cities to a more meaningful life in rural areas has breathed new life into it. The transfer of knowledge is happening just in time, before the older generation dies out. He showed before and after photos of abandoned lands transformed by Satoyama techniques, and models indicating how human interventions including small-scale electricity and biogas production, in addition to agricultural and forest practices are critical to such transformations and to achieving sustainability goals.

Session 4: Parallel Working Group Sessions [Day 2] Bridging knowledge and capacity gaps in post Rio era
Working Group 3: Building capacities for adapting to climate change in water management
Chair/Facilitator: Mr. Anton Earle, Director Capacity Development Office, SIWI, Stockholm Rapporteur: Mr. Mr. Kees Leendertse, Cap-Net UNDP, South Africa Mr. Michael Douglass, Professor, University of Singapore: Capacity building needs for water management vis--vis current practices Mr. Douglass described the transition to urbanization in Asia and the enormous implications for water management attached to this demographic shift. Dam building, for example, is exploding in many sensitive areas, such as in the Himalayas and along the Mekong. Meanwhile, climate change will bring sea level rise and other challenges to low-lying areas. We have entered an Age of Chronic Flooding, he noted, and he used the recent experiences in Jakarta as a case study. Megaprojects (large scale developments) and peri-urban sprawl in the region have exploded, creating many pressures and increasing vulnerability of both people and economic development to flooding and water pollution. He emphasized that these issues could not be treated as water sector issues alone. They are linked to environment, livelihood, and social welfare concerns as well. More integrated, coordinated, and participatory approaches to planning are called for. Mr. Khalid Riaz, Professor and Head of Management Sciences Department , COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Islamabad: Strengthening linkages between research and farmers for improving agricultural water management Mr. Riaz began by reflecting that the role of water use in climate change adaptation is pivotal, and agricultural water management accounting for 90% of water use in many countries is therefore doubly central. Current responses generally favor trying to increase control over water (e.g. through reservoirs, groundwater use, evaporation control), but this is a limited approach leaving many vulnerabilities and risk factors in place. He described some
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Working Group 4: Knowledge and capacity needs for providing energy access to all
Chair/Facilitator: Mr. Mark Hopkins, International Energy Efficiency Director, UNF, USA Rapporteur: Mr. Kang Sang-In, Senior Development Management Expert, UNOSD, Incheon Mr. Arjen Wals, Prof of Social Learning and SD, Wageningen University, The Netherlands: Knowledge and capacity needs and solutions for sustainability transition in post Rio era Once again making use of arresting images, Mr. Wals reflected on the importance of relevant and realistic knowledge and capacity development for engaging younger people in sustainability. He suggested bringing an integrative, critical and transformative lens to understanding sustainability in post Rio era, as the issue is globally and locally interconnected. He also proposed that we should be critical of consumption and consumerism, and cautious about the quality of the information placed in front of us. His vision of education and capacity building for sustainable development was a vision of transformation of oneself of the people around us. He advocated sharing not just knowledge, but wisdom. Mr. Dilip Ahuja, Prof of Science & Technology Policy, Nat. Institute of Adv. Studies, Bangalore: Addressing the energy gap in developing countries through capacity building and knowledge sharing Mr. Ahuja described the different kinds of energy gaps that exist in our world, for example rural and urban, as well as showing data on the different levels of energy access that can still correspond to a relatively high quality of life (as measured by the Human Development Index). He focused most of his talk on India as a case study. At current rates of growth, India will not reach the Universal Energy Access until 2051. Though the access gap between urban and rural does seem to be narrowing, the consumption gap is widening, as urban dwellers consume more and more of the available electricity. Addressing such gaps requires having an historical as well as a social analysis of the development and problems of rural electrification. The knowledge and capacity needs are many, ranging from analysis skills for matching technology to available resources, to effective methods of collecting bill payments. Once again integration is key: including local employment opportunities, cross-subsidies, and local capacity for maintenance and repair in rural electrification planning can make the difference between success and failure. Mr. Johng-Ihl Lee, Prof of Technology & Society, SUNY Korea: Technology transfer and capacity building for enhancing access to energy Mr. Lee presented a Korean case study in technology transfer and commercialization. He provided details of how incentives, legislation, research and other factors worked together, through multiple institutions, including government, universities and research institutes. In general, technology acquisition happens through different channels depending on the development stages of an economy: concessional production, foreign direct investment, technology transaction, and domestic and international R&D activities. Public technology

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policies also follow the life cycle of technological innovation ranging from experimental and applied R&D to final commercialization of developed technology. Mr. Lee concluded, based on his analysis, that there is no Kings way (standard approach) for enhancing and providing energy access to all.

Working Group 5: Sustainable agriculture, food security and climate change

Chair/Facilitator: Mr. Eric Kemp-Benedict, Senior Scientist, Stockholm Environment Institute, Bangkok Rapporteur: Mr. Franois Fortier, Senior SD Expert, UNOSD Mr. David OConnor, DSD/DESA, UN, New York: Food security and sustainable development in post Rio+20 era Mr. OConnor provided a big picture overview, noting first how food security is framed in The Future We Want. Food is named as a right, and is acknowledged to be a pressing global challenge. The worlds predominantly industrial agricultural systems are seen as problematic and many areas in need of improvement were highlighted, especially with regard to rural development issues. Mr. OConnor detailed the challenge set by the UN Secretary General no hunger, malnutrition, or starvation by 2030 and our present-day starting point of one billion living in food insecurity, with another one billion deficient in micro-nutrients. Climate change poses the biggest challenge, but land degradation, land scarcity, water insecurity and other issues are important as well (and often linked to climate change). Responses currently fall into two categories: science and technology improvements (intensification, new crops varieties, efficiency, etc.) and changes linked to markets and institutions (land tenure, knowledge sharing, risk insurance among many others). He identified three critical action areas for knowledge sharing: sustainable agricultural techniques (appropriate to local conditions), sustainable water management, and climate-smart agriculture linked to global climate finance mechanisms. UNOSD could partner with other more topic-specific institutions to enhance such knowledge sharing. Ms. Eva Ludi, Overseas Development Institute, United Kingdom: Sustainable agriculture and adaptation to climate change: knowledge gaps and needs Ms. Ludi spoke of a triple challenge to agriculture. The first is economic, social, and demographic. With rising and urbanizing populations, food and feed production will need to rise by around 70% (cereals 33-50%, meat 43-85%) to feed 9 billion people by 2050. Production is still rising, but prices are falling, land is getting more degraded, and there is increasing competition over water. The second is climate change: the world must adapt its agricultural systems to higher temperatures and variable precipitation regimes. The third challenge is greenhouse gas (GHG) mitigation: agriculture contributes up to 15% of GHGs, land clearance for 18%. Ms. Ludi showed numerous models and examples for more sustainable resource management, but noted that many questions remain regarding how to finance, build capacity, collaborate, develop the right policy mixes, and help people to adapt. Mr. Gerard Sylvester, Knowledge and Information Management Officer, FAO, Bangkok: Knowledge management for agriculture: FAO Experience Mr. Sylvester spoke on the use of information technology in KCSD for agriculture, and the FAOs eAgriculture initiative, a global online community of 10,000 practitioners, supported by fifteen institutional partners. Forum discussions on topics such as climate-smart agriculture attract hundreds of participants. Drawing on a forum discussion about information and communications technology (ICT) and Green Growth, Mr. Sylvester listed many benefits

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Session 5: Implementing Rio+20 outcomes: the way forward for knowledge sharing and capacity building [Day 3]
Expert Panel 1: Sustainable development goals and a new architecture for sustainable development governance
Chair/Moderator: Mr. Thierry Schwarz, Director for Intellectual Exchange, ASEF, Singapore Rapporteur: Mr. Simon Olsen, IGES, Tokyo Mr. Surendra Shrestha, Special Advisor and Focal Point for SDGs, United Nations Environment Programme, New York: Post-2015 challenges In introducing the process for defining the Sustainable Development Goals, Mr. Shrestha spoke of closing the perceived dichotomy between environment and development, and of articulating a vision for where we want to go in terms of development over the next 15 to 30 years. He provided a timeline of planned milestones on the SDG process and noted several challenges that must be overcome along the way, including the facilitation of a convergence of views from international, national, and local levels; differences among members regarding the process of defining the SDGs; and the need to find SDGs that inspire the public, integrate all the various inputs, and generate positive political capital. He offered a framework for moving forward that consisted of (1) articulating a clear vision for the 21st century (one that reconciles human wellbeing with planetary wellbeing; (2) developing a clear methodology that integrates the many priorities and goals endorsed at Rio+20 and translates them into a smaller number of east-to-communicate goal statements; and (3) following a strict timeline keyed to the General Assembly meetings in 2013, 2014, and 2015 (GA68-70). He also expressed a set of personal wishes, that the world would shift from individual to collective perspectives, from greed to need, from competition to collaboration, from reactive policies to preventative ones, and generally from rhetoric to transformative change. Mr. Lszl Pintr, Professor, Department of Environmental Sciences and Policy, CEU, Hungary: Indicators and the SDGs Mr. Pinter emphasized the importance of developing SD indicators aligned with the SDGs, and noted that the indicators should be fully integrated with SD visions and goals, firmly wedded to implementation mechanisms, and acceptable to multiple audiences. The recent developments in the Beyond GDP movement are promising, as new complementary indicators are being developed around the world covering different aspects of sustainable development such as a Green Economy or National Wellbeing. But he warned against creating an indicator Tower of Babel, and said we must use our experience and our existing knowledge to fashion indicators for the SDGs that truly meet our needs. This will, of course, require significant knowledge sharing and capacity building relevant tasks for UNOSD.

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Ms. Ella Antonio, President, Earth Council Asia Pacific, Philippines: Post-2015 imperatives for civil society participation Ms. Antonio argued that, while the space afforded to civil society organizations (CSOs) and the quality of their participation have both improved, more improvements could be made to enhance the relevance, effectiveness, and legitimacy of CSO participation post-2015. She reminded us that current challenges to effective CSO participation in decision making relate mostly to financial means, representation, accountability, and political fallout. She also argued that the current system of CSO participation (i.e. the Major Groups) is not fully inclusive and needs to be revamped to allow more access to groups that are currently marginalized. She suggested that future participation could be theme-based rather than defined by groups, as this could enhance the relevance of CSO inputs; but that such change might require additional knowledge sharing and capacity development. Ms. Zeenat Niazi, Vice President, Development Alternatives (India): Stakeholder participation and engagement for sustainable development Ms. Niazi shared information about the situation in India and emphasized that a great many CSO initiatives exist, at many levels, to define and implement sustainable development and a green economy. These include programs to promote jobs skills, technology, finance, equality, and information sharing, among others. She demonstrated the vitality of such programs at all the different levels of engagement (sub-province, province, national, regional) with relevant case studies but emphasized that knowledge gaps still exist on how SD plans (and related initiatives) can be implemented on the ground. She shared ways that powerful communication technologies can help to engage people, such as community radio, participatory learning platforms, face-to-face platforms (meetings, award ceremonies etc.), and much more. Successful initiatives, she said, start with a clear and relatively narrow focus before trying to broaden out to the whole sustainable development agenda. Simple communications using media engages people and engaging both the mind and the heart (does this touch me? affect my village? make me angry? give me hope?) is an essential ingredient. Mr. David O'Connor, Chief, Policy Analysis Branch, DESA, United Nations, New York: Financing and the SDGs Mr OConnor shared that the MDGs did not have a clear financing element, at least not upfront, but because they were accepted they indirectly generated financial support. He remarked that this could be the same in the case of the SDGs, but that a formal process is in place to respond to Rio+20s call for a financing strategy. He described the SDGs as MDGs plus for the poor countries, to finish the unfinished work of poverty eradication and lifting human development; and Beyond the MDGs for all people, to deal with the problem of growth within ecological limits while preserving natural, human, and physical capital. He argued for a 2-pronged financing strategy that reflects this dual aspect of the SDGs: (1) supporting development with a difference (low-carbon, low impact, inclusive), and (2) mobilizing resources to the protect the global commons of the atmosphere, oceans, climate, and biodiversity. He reflected that the implications of such a strategy might include a change in how official development assistance (ODA) is conducted, baking in climate adaptation and resilience and other factors, while assuring that financing for low-carbon development was systematically made part of ODA (while being additional and without replacing traditional ODA flows). Clearer policy frameworks would be necessary to attract funding, and he wondered whether the new Green Climate Fund (to be based in Incheon) might bring coherence to a crowded field. He also noted that the UNOSD could play a role in helping

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Expert Panel 2: Knowledge and capacity needs for accelerating transition towards sustainability including green economy
Chair/Moderator: Mr. Nikhil Seth, Director, DSD/DESA, United Nations, New York Rapporteur: Mr. Franois Fortier, Senior Sustainable Development Expert, UNOSD, Incheon Mr. Peter King, Senior Policy Adviser, IGES, USA/Bangkok: Can the green economy help to eradicate poverty? Mr. King asked what evidence existed that Green Growth contributed to poverty eradication, and how could that evidence be put to use? He listed a number of Green Growths benefits as a stabilizing influence in resource, employment, climate adaptation and other areas. He noted that Green Growth could therefore contribute to poverty eradication while also being a way to a Green Economy, but that these terms get mixed up in the literature. They all need to be seen at the intersection of the three pillars of sustainable development (which he diagrammed, see slides). For this shift in perspective to happen, however, growth must be reconceptualized, and jobs must be greener. Current GDP-defined growth must shift towards quality of life objectives such as happiness and wellbeing, because growth as currently defined is unsustainable. Policies that favor employment in sectors such as agriculture can be seen as pro-poor growth policies in poor countries that are nonetheless in alignment with a green economy. The role of indicators and measurements in assessing both the greenness and the poverty reduction benefits of various policies is crucial here. Mr. Felix Dodds, Tellus Institute, USA: Matching KCSD needs to supply Mr. Dodds first addressed some of the issues raised in previous session, notably the inclusion of CSOs and the problem of exclusion caused by the system of Major Groups. He recounted a conversation with a senior UN official (at the time the Major Groups were formed after Rio 92) that demonstrated that the Major Groups were in response to the vocal demands of the time, rather than any well-considered framework. There are certainly gaps to fill as a result. CSOs could be better financed, perhaps even by governments, if there were political will. He noted that the Rio+20 outcomes included a lot of ideas on how to more forward, and that knowledge needs to be better managed. He saw a need not so much for a one-stop-shop, but for a clearing house that would map, connect, and direct flows of information to address the needs. Mr. Eric Kemp-Benedict, Senior Scientist, Stockholm Environment Institute, Bangkok: How to green investments? Mr. Kemp-Benedict read a prepared statement dealing with the difficult problem of existing, high-carbon capital investments (such as coal-fired power plants or low efficiency production facilities). More drastic action to preserve climate stability would require countries to retire such investments early. How and why would they do so? Mr. Kemp-Benedict proposed stepping back from the ordinary operations of the economy to consider two key factors: (1) the discount rates that determine the present and perceived future value of those investments, because these rates are currently too low given the damage that such infrastructure will cause over time; and (2) finding ways to highlight the net (financial) benefit of shifting to a low-carbon economy, while preserving a perceived high quality of life. He noted that transitions away from high-carbon development could involve some sacrifices, but that they would be transitory and would lead to higher qualities of life in the long run. Mr.

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Day 1 (6 March, Wednesday) Registration of participants: 08:00 to 09:00 hrs Opening Session (09:00 to 09:40 hrs) Venue: The Ballroom B, C Opening remarks: Mr. Nikhil Seth, Director, DSD/UNDESA, New York Introduction of the expert consultation: M. Aslam Chaudhry, Head of UNOSD, Incheon Welcome remarks: - Mr. Yoon Jong-Soo, Vice Minister of Environment, Republic of Korea (tbc) - Mr. Young-Gil Song, Mayor of Incheon City Keynote remarks: - Mr. Byung-Wook Lee, President, Korea Environment Institute, Seoul, ROK - Mr. Lszl Pintr, Professor, Department of Environmental Sciences and Policy, CEU, Budapest Coffee/Tea Break and departure of guests (09:40 to 10:00 hrs) Session 1: Knowledge and capacity needs and gaps for sustainable development (10:00 to 13:00 hrs with 20 minutes nutrition and networking break) Venue: The Ballroom B, C Chair: Mr. Nikhil Seth, Director, DSD/DESA, United Nations, New York Rapporteur: Ms. Chikako Takase, Director, UNCRD, Nagoya Chairs remarks/reflections Presentation 1: Knowledge and capacity needs for sustainable development in post Rio era Speaker: Mr. Alan AtKisson, UNOSD Consultant, Stockholm Presentation 2: Mapping of issues, strategies and initiatives in sustainable development: a preliminary analysis Speaker: Mr. Franois Fortier, Senior Sustainable Development Expert, UNOSD, Incheon Presentation 3: Strengthening knowledge-policy-practice interface towards sustainable development Speaker: Mr. Peter King, Senior Policy Adviser, IGES, Bangkok Presentation 4: Knowledge sharing and capacity building for sustainable development: lessons learned, challenges, and opportunities Speaker: Ms. Grazyna Pulawska, Project Executive, Asia-Europe Foundation (ASEF), Singapore Presentation 5: Stakeholder engagement in knowledge sharing and capacity building for sustainable development: experiences and lessons learned Speaker: Mr. Felix Dodds,Tellus Institute, USA Interactive discussion will focus, inter-alia, on the following questions:
o o o How close is your perception of the needs and gaps to what you have heard presented? Is there some important aspect that has been missed or overlooked? Can the needs and gaps identified so far be clustered into categories? What are those categories? This meetings goal is, in part, to produce a Framework for Action for knowledge sharing and Capacity Building. What would make such a framework particularly useful to you? Lunch Break (13:00 to 14:30 hrs),Venue: Restaurant, 1 st Floor

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Session 2: Parallel Working Group Sessions: Mapping of who is doing what and how: sharing of experiences and lessons learned (14:30 to 17:30 hrs with 20 minutes nutrition and networking break) Working Group 1 Experiences from different knowledge and capacity building programmes and networks in sustainable development: what has worked and what has not? Venue: The Ballroom A Chair/Facilitator: Mr. Alan AtKisson, UNOSD Consultant, Stockholm Rapporteur: Mr. Khalid Riaz, Professor of Management Sciences, Comsats University, Islamabad Chairs/Facilitators reflections Presentation 1: Growth of SD knowledge and trends in its dissemination-- are knowledge networks competing or complementing? Speaker: Mr. Felix Dodds,Tellus Institute, USA Presentation 2: Revisiting capacity building approaches and models: successes and failures Speaker: Mr. Kees Leendertse, Cap-Net UNDP, South Africa Presentation 3: Have knowledge platforms helped in strengthening capacities of developing countries in sustainable development? Speaker: Ms Jane Rovins, Executive Director, Integrated Research on Disaster Risk, Beijing The Working Group will focus its discussions, inter-alia, on the following questions: o What are 3-5 key takeaways (reflections and insights) from the presentations that can inform the development of knowledge and capacity building programmes going forward? o Are there any common patterns in the examples of what has not worked? o What do the most effective and successful examples have in common? What can we learn from these? Summary Question: What appear to be the key elements of a successful programme for knowledge and capacity building? Working Group 2 SD knowledge management for capacity building in post Rio+20 era Venue: The Ballroom B Chair/Facilitator: Mr. Lszl Pintr, Professor, Department of Environmental Sciences and Policy, Central European University, Budapest. Rapporteur: Ms. Eva Ludi, Overseas Development Institute, United Kingdom Chairs/Facilitators reflections Presentation 1: Impact of knowledge platforms and networks in advancing sustainable development Speaker: Mr. Kimo Goree, Director Reporting, IISD Presentation 2: Challenges in connecting traditional capacity building models to new agenda and knowledge Speaker: Mr. Jacques Prescott, Associate Professor, Chair on Eco-Advising, Universit du Qubec Presentation 3: Informing global stewardship from local experience: the GEF KM strategy Speaker: Ms. Patrizia Cocca, Communication Officer & KM Coordinator, Global Environment Facility, Washington DC The Working Group will focus its discussions, inter-alia, on the following questions: o The landscape for SD knowledge management and capacity building is changing rapidly, in complex ways. In order to address this, what key messages need to be communicated to decision makers? o What new technologies and methods appear to be most important in putting SD knowledge to use, and in increasing our capacity to use it? o What is different about knowledge and capacity for SD in the post-Rio+20 era? What has changed? Summary Question: How can these insights be translated into effective strategy and programming?

Reception hosted by the Korea Environment Institute (18:00 to 20:00 hrs)

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Venue: Main Bar Room, 1st Floor Day 2 (7 March, Thursday) Session 3: Unlocking the potential of water-energy-agriculture nexus for poverty eradication (09:00 to 13:00 hrs with 20 minutes nutrition and networking break) Venue: The Ballroom B, C Chair: Mr. M. Aslam Chaudhry, Head of UNOSD, Incheon Rapporteur: Mr. Peter King, Senior Policy Adviser, IGES, Bangkok Recap of day 1 and organization of day 2: Mr. Aslam Chaudhry, Head of UNOSD Keynote address: Education and Capacity Building for Sustainability. Speaker: Mr. Arjen Wals, Professor of Social Learning and Sustainable Development, Wageningen University, The Netherlands Chairs/Facilitators reflections Presentation 1: Capacity building in strengthening water cooperation for sustainable development - trends and results Speaker: Mr. Anton Earle, Director, Capacity Development, SIWI, Stockholm Presentation 2: Providing sustainable energy for all: need for additional knowledge and capacities Speaker: Mr. Mark Hopkins, International Energy Efficiency Director, United Nations Foundation, USA Presentation 3: Managing water-energy and agriculture nexus for poverty eradication: evidence from the field Speaker: Mr. Eric Kemp-Benedict, Centre Director, Stockholm Environment Institute, Bangkok Presentation 4: Learning from best practices in water, energy and sustainable agriculture Speaker: Mr. Jacques Prescott, Associate Professor, Chair on Eco-Advising, Universit du Qubec Presentation 5: Advancing sustainable development: mainstreaming water-energy-sustainable agriculture in regional development planning context Speaker: Mr. Masao Takano, Associate Professor, Graduate School of Environment Studies, Nagoya University, Japan

Interactive discussion will focus, inter-alia, on the following questions: o Food security: How can we use the extensive knowledge that we already have (on how to increase food security) more effectively? o Climate change: Despite ample knowledge and great efforts in the area of capacity development, most observers agree that progress on climate change remains too slow, in every dimension of the issue. Is there something we can do differently, in the area of knowledge and capacity development that will help us overcome roadblocks and accelerate change? o Poverty eradication: What specific types of knowledge and capacity are most needed now, in your experience? And needed by whom? o The nexus: Our capacity for capacity development is already limited, and the complex interactions among these areas (water, energy, food, poverty, climate) stretch us even further. What are the most effective ways of integrating knowledge and capacity building programmes to advance progress in several areas at once? Lunch Break (13:00 to 14:30 hrs) Venue: Restaurant, 1st Floor

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(14:30 to 17:30 hrs with 20 minutes nutrition and networking break) Working Group 3 Building capacities for adapting to climate change in water management Venue: The Ballroom A Chair/Facilitator: Mr. Anton Earle, Director Capacity Development Office, SIWI, Stockholm Rapporteur: Mr. Kees Leendertse, Cap-Net UNDP, South Africa Chairs/Facilitators reflections Presentation 1: Capacity building needs for water management vis--vis current practices Speaker: Mr. Michael Douglass, Professor, University of Singapore. Presentation 2: Strengthening linkages between research and farmers for improving agriculture water management Speaker: Mr. Khalid Riaz, Professor of Management Sciences, Comsats University, Islamabad Working Group 4 Knowledge and capacity needs for providing energy access to all Venue: Regency Room A Chair/Facilitator: Mr. Mark Hopkins, International Energy Efficiency Director, UNF, USA Rapporteur: Mr. Kang Sang-in, Senior Development Management Expert, UNOSD, Incheon Chairs/Faciliators reflections Presentation 1: Knowledge and capacity needs and solutions for sustainability transition in post Rio era Speaker: Mr. Arjen Wals, Prof of Social Learning and SD, Wageningen University, The Netherlands. Presentation 2: Addressing the energy gap in developing countries through capacity building and knowledge sharing Speaker: Mr. Dilip Ahuja, Prof of Science & Technology Policy, Nat. Institute of Adv. Studies, Bangalore Presentation 3: Technology transfer and capacity building for enhancing access to energy Speaker: Mr. Johng-Ihl Lee, Professor of Department of Technology and Society, SUNY Korea, Incheon Working Group 5 Sustainable agriculture, food security and climate change Venue: Regency Room B Chair/Facilitator: Mr. Eric Kemp-Benedict, Centre Director, Stockholm Environment Institute, Bangkok Rapporteur: Mr. Franois Fortier, Senior SD Expert, UNOSD, Incheon Chairs/Facilitators reflections Presentation 1: Food security and sustainable development in post Rio+20 era Speaker: Mr. David OConnor, DSD/DESA, UN, New York Presentation 2: Sustainable agriculture and adaptation to climate change: knowledge gaps and needs Speaker: Ms. Eva Ludi, Overseas Development Institute, United Kingdom Presentation 3: Knowledge management for agriculture: FAO Experience Speaker: Mr. Gerard Sylvester, Knowledge and Information Management Officer, FAO, Bangkok

One key objective of this expert consultation is to gain a better understanding about the Framework for Action for Knowledge Sharing and Capacity Building. Towards this aim: o What are the key competencies (both the knowledge and capacity to use that knowledge) that are most needed, to help countries adapt to climate change in water management? o What are the top priorities for action (maximum three), in order to make knowledge sharing and capacity building more effective? What needs to happen? o There are several key actors, in addition to the govts, who will contribute towards the implementation of this framework for action. What are your views as to who can do what? o What are the key competencies (both the knowledge and capacity to use that knowledge) that are most needed, to help countries to accelerate the provision of sustainable energy for all? o What are the top priorities for action (maximum three), in order to make knowledge sharing and capacity building more effective? What needs to happen? o There are several key actors, in addition to the governments, who will contribute towards the implementation of this framework for action. What are your views as to who can do what? o What are the key competencies (both the knowledge and capacity to use that knowledge) that are most needed, to help countries to secure food supplies sustainably in an era of climatic change? o What are the top priorities for action (maximum three), in order to make knowledge sharing and capacity building more effective? What needs to happen o There are several key actors, in addition to the governments, who will contribute towards the implementation of this framework for action. What are your views as to who can do what?

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Day 3 (8 March, Friday) Recap of day 2 and organization of day 3: Mr. M. Aslam Chaudhry, Head of UNOSD Session 5: Implementing Rio+20 outcomes: the way forward for knowledge sharing and capacity building (09:00 to 13:00 hrs with 20 minutes nutrition and networking break) Venue: The Ballroom B, C Expert Panel 1 Sustainable development goals and new architecture for sustainable development governance Chair/Moderator: Mr. Thierry Schwarz, Director for Intellectual Exchange, ASEF, Singapore Rapporteur: Mr. Simon Olsen, IGES, Tokyo

Panel:
Mr. Surendra Shrestha, Director, United Nations Environment Programme, New York Mr. Lszl Pintr, Professor, Department of Environmental Sciences and Policy, CEU, Hungary Ms. Ella Antonio, President, Earth Council Asia Pacific, Philippines Ms. Zeenat Niazi, Vice President, Development Alternatives, India Mr. David O'Connor, Chief, Policy Analysis Branch, DESA, United Nations, New York

See Annex 1 for Issues Note Expert Panel 2 Knowledge and capacity needs for accelerating transition towards sustainability including green economy Chair/Moderator: Mr. Nikhil Seth, Director, DSD/DESA, United Nations, New York Rapporteur: Mr. Franois Fortier, Senior Sustainable Development Expert, UNOSD, Incheon Panel:

Mr. Peter King, Senior Policy Adviser, IGES, USA/Bangkok Mr. Felix Dodds, Tellus Institute, USA Mr. Eric Kemp-Benedict, Centre Director, Stockholm Environment Institute, Bangkok Ms. Eva Ludi, Overseas Development Institute, UK Mr. Lee Myung Kyoon, Director, Green Growth Planning and Implementation, GGGI, Seoul See Annex 2 for Issues Note Lunch Break (13:00 to 14:30 hrs) Venue: Restaurant, 1st Floor Closing session (14:30 to 16:30 hrs) Chair: Mr. Nikhil Seth, Director, DSD/DESA, United Nations, New York Presentation of working groups reports Discussion on summary of conclusions and recommendations Closing statements and next steps

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Annex 1 Issues Note on Expert Panel on Sustainable Development Goals and New Architecture for Sustainable Development Governance 8 March 2013 from (09:00 to 11:20 hrs) Context The expert panel will discuss the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) state of play including the political framework of the process. Coherent action to achieve sustainable development is an important factor to advance global discussions on sustainability. The development of goals could also be useful for pursuing focused and coherent action on sustainable development. In Rio, leaders recognize the importance and utility of a set of sustainable development goals, based on Agenda 21 and the Johannesburg Plan of Implementation, which fully respect all the Rio Principles, taking into account different national circumstances, capacities and priorities, are consistent with international law, build upon commitments already made, and contribute to the full implementation of the outcomes of all major summits in the economic, social and environmental fields, including the present outcome document. The development of these goals should build upon the lessons learnt from the achievements of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The SDGs can offer a coherent vision for sustainable development and be an effective tool for addressing wider development challenges in a comprehensive manner. They can ultimately do so by capitalising on the successes and learning from the shortcomings of the entire MDGs process and integrating efforts with the on-going process to develop a post-2015 development framework. Determining a new development agenda must be an urgent priority for the international community. The ultimate aim over the next two and half years for the post-2015 and SDGs process must be to ensure that a single set of global goals which are action-oriented, concise and easy to communicate, limited in number, aspirational, global in nature and universal in application are agreed in the year 2015. As stated in the Rio+20 outcome document, it is imperative that the Rio+20 and post-2015 processes fully converge to arrive at one post-2015 UN development agenda, with sustainable development at its center. The political coherence needs to be ensured and the process on post 2015 and SDGs should come to a joint position on post-2015 agenda. Issues to be discussed Issue 1, Status of on-going negotiations: Many countries have already expressed their viewpoints on what should be the guiding principles to be applied to SDGs and how they should be articulated with MDGs. The High Level Panel and the Open-Ended Working Group have been established. Now what is the discourse development regarding SDGs and

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post-MDGs? Questions to be discussed are: How are countries positioning themselves, what are the main lines of divides, what will be the main obstacles to the finalization of an agreement? Discussant: Mr. Surendra Shrestha Issue 2, SDGs, SDGs Indicators (SDGIs) and the green economy: One of the reasons why MDGs were successful was their simplicity. Anyone could understand them and no one could disagree with them. Therefore, the same rule is recommended for SDGs creation. In parallel, the Rio+20 established a connection between the promotion of the green economy concept and the development of SDGs. The development of new indicators creates a big opportunity for mainstreaming growth related indicators beyond GDP. Questions to be discussed include: What are the possibilities and concepts that are relevant for this discussion? Is this a right moment to define new measurement for development? What could be the conceptual framework for creating SDGs and SDGIs? And what kind of existing approaches could be used for making it happen? Could SDGs be an opportunity to promote new indicators incorporating externalities and/or promote the use of green accounts? What can be taken from existing statistics (for example bi-yearly Eurostat report)? Discussant: Mr. Lszl Pintr Issue 3, Political framework of the process and Stakeholder involvement: Rio+20 outcome document encourages to acknowledge the role of civil society and the importance of enabling all members of civil society to be actively engaged in sustainable development. (We) recognize that improved participation of civil society depends upon, inter alia, strengthening access to information and building civil society capacity and an enabling environment. Participation is considered as a key for building up consensus on SDGs and to ensure successful implementation. Key questions to be discussed include the following: What are the processes in place to ensure stakeholders participation? What are the initiatives taken by the UN, international organizations, regional organisations, countries, NGOs to encourage participative processes? Are there good case studies of stakeholders participation in Asia or in Europe? What are the existing initiatives on the country level concerning SDGs? Discussants: Ms. Ella Antonio and Ms. Zeenat Niazi Issue 4, Funding SDGs: The Rio Declaration states: In view of the different contributions to global environmental degradation, States have common but differentiated responsibilities. The developed countries acknowledge the responsibility that they bear in the international pursuit of sustainable development in view of the pressures their societies place on the global environment and of the technologies and financial resources they command. Similar language exists in the Framework Convention on Climate Change; parties should act to protect the climate system on the basis of equality and in accordance with their common but differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities. It can be taken for granted that a large part of the negotiations on SDGs will focus on the means of implementation. In times of crisis and rising new economies, it is very unlikely that developed countries will accept to commit additional funding for the implementation of SDGs. Emerging countries will be required to do more and new forms of financing that are

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not restricted to transfers from rich countries to poor countries(but also by rich people in poor countries) will have to be examined: Tax on airlines tickets, Tax on financial transactions, trading of carbon credits, carbon tax or end to subsidized fossil fuels Key questions requiring some insights include: Will financial issues be the main obstacle to an agreement on SDGs? Is the divide between the so-called group of 77 and the rich countries still relevant? Are the new forms of financing likely to be supported by a sufficient number of countries? Discussant: Mr. David O'Connor Process The discussion will be organized in three rounds. First round: The Chair/Moderator will invite each expert to reflect his/her thoughts on one of the above issues. There will be no provision for Power Point overheads. (5 minutes per speaker, total 25 minutes). Second round: The Chair/Moderator will invite each panel member to comment on the views expressed by other members of the panel, especially their agreement/disagreement and important issues not touched upon. (5 minutes per panelist, total 25 minutes). Third round: Participants will engage into an interactive dialogue with the panel based on the discussions of the first two rounds. Finally, the Chair will summarize the key points of discussion. Panel Chair: Mr. Thierry Schwarz, Director for Intellectual Exchange, Asia-Europe Foundation Rapporteur: Mr. Simon Olson, IGES Mr. Surendra Shrestha, Director, United Nations Environment Programme, New York Mr. Lszl Pintr, Professor, Department of Environmental Sciences and Policy at the Central European University (CEU) in Budapest, Hungary Ms. Ella Antonio, President, Earth Council Asia Pacific, Philippines Ms. Zeenat Niazi, Vice President, Development Alternatives, India Mr. David O'Connor, Chief, Policy Analysis Branch, DSD/ UN DESA, New York

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Annex 2 Issues Note Expert Panel on Knowledge and Capacity Needs for Accelerating Transition towards Sustainability including Green Economy (8 March 2013 from 11:40 to 13:00 hrs) Context The expert panel will discuss knowledge and capacity needs for making successful transition towards green economy. The importance of this subject could hardly be overemphasized given that countries are attempting to translate outcomes mentioned in Rio+20 outcome document into their national contexts. However, evidence shows that most countries are facing many challenges and obstacles in moving their economies to more environmentally friendly paths. Some of these challenges and obstacles relate to target setting, formulating strategies to achieve these targets, and mobilizing institutions and resources to support the transition. In this regard, knowledge sharing and capacity building can be instrumental in accelerating the transition process. Issues The panel will discuss the following issues: Issue 1: Eradicating poverty is one of the most pressing issues of our times. Advocates of green economy are of the view that moving towards green economy could help in eradicating poverty in a number of ways. What is the evidence from the real world and how can such evidence translate more efficiently into pro-poor green policies? Discussant: Mr. Peter King Issue 2: Paragraph 66 of the Rio+20 outcome document called upon the UN system and its partners to coordinate and provide information about matching interested countries with the partners best suited to provide requested support. There are several initiatives that either provide or can potentially provide technical support and advice, but these remain dispersed. Will a one-stop shop or portal be more useful or if the current mix of sites and initiatives be the best option to meet countries' needs? In other words, how shall we move ahead with this process of matching supply and demand? Discussant: Mr. Felix Dodds Issue 3: Over the years, developing countries made huge investments in technology and infrastructure with support from international financing institutions, but some of these investments were not green. A more drastic climate action will require these countries to abandon existing high carbon capital stock. Will it make sense? Also, how to steer future infrastructure build-out away from high carbon intensity to low, especially if such investments remain unattractive (unless international concessional carbon finance is available)? What should both developing countries and their developing partners do to deal with this dilemma and, towards this aim, what sort of knowledge sharing and capacity building programs are needed? Discussant: Mr. Eric Kemp-Benedict Issue 4: Despite numerous SD-specific knowledge building and capacity development initiatives over the past 25 years, progress has been slow, and the situation is now urgent as

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we are crossing several planetary boundaries, notably climate change. What key knowledge-generation and exchange process should be strengthened to accelerate transitions towards sustainability? Discussant: Ms. Eva Ludi Issue 5: At Rio+20, Several Major Groups and some governments criticized the green economy for not moving fast enough, even though it goes in the right direction. Is this the case, and how can knowledge sharing and capacity building speed-up transitions to sustainability? Discussant: Mr. Lee Myung Kyoon Process The discussion will be organized in three rounds. First round: The Chair/Moderator will invite each expert to reflect his/her thoughts on one of the above issues. There will be no provision for Power Point overheads. (5 minutes per speaker, total 25 minutes). Second round: The Chair/Moderator will invite each panel member to comment on the views expressed by other members of the panel, especially their agreement/disagreement and important issues not touched upon. (5 minutes per panelist, total 25 minutes). Third round: Participants will engage into an interactive dialogue with the panel based on the discussions of the first two rounds. Finally, the Chair will summarize the key points of discussion. Panel Chair/Moderator: Mr. Nikhil Seth, Director, DSD/DESA, United Nations, New York Rapporteur: Mr. Francois Forteir, Sr. Sustainable Development Expert, Incheon, ROK Mr. Peter King, Senior Policy Adviser, IGES Mr. Felix Dodds, Tellus Institute, USA Mr. Eric Kemp-Benedict, Centre Director, Stockholm Environment Institute Ms. Eva Ludi, Overseas Development Institute, UK Mr. Lee Myung Kyoon, Director, Director, Green Growth Planning and Implementation, GGGI

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Appendix B: Remarks and Presentations Day 1 Opening Remark:

By Mr. Nikhil Seth, Director, DSD/UNDESA, New York Excellency, Mayor Song Deputy Minister of Environment, Mr. Song Dr. Lee, President of the Korea Environment Institute Colleagues, Ladies and Gentlemen It is my great pleasure to welcome you all to this Expert Consultation being organized by the United Nations Office for Sustainable Development, which is affiliated with my Division, the Division for Sustainable Development of the UN Secretariat in New York. This Expert Consultation is taking place 8 months after Rio+20 at a time when Governments and other actors are gearing up for translating the outcomes of the Rio+20 Conference into action. Implementation, integration, coherence and engagement were the key messages of Rio+20 Conference. We all know how urgent this is. Our path to progress is threatened by resource scarcities, notably of water and fertile land; food and energy insecurity; persisting social and economic crises; and ever growing stresses on ecosystem and planetary life-support systems like the climate, manifesting in extreme weather and hydrological events. These are all are reminders of our perilous state. To address these challenges effectively will require leadership and engagement. It calls for support on several fronts, especially in knowledge sharing and capacity building. In response, an increasing number of global institutions, think tanks and research institutes are putting in place knowledge management as a core strategy to facilitate access to knowledge for achieving development goals and objectives. The UN is also responding to this call, and this includes the work of UNOSD, in close cooperation with the rest of the Division for Sustainable Development, in enhancing its capacity to act as sustainable development knowledge hub, brokering knowledge between sources and users, and enhancing science-policy interface. This is the broad canvas for this Expert Consultation. And we are most grateful that you have accepted our call to gather here and take stock of knowledge and capacity needs, learn

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lessons from our collective experiences, debate priorities, and guide the development of a framework for action describing where to go next and how. Ladies and Gentlemen: We see this Expert Consultation as important for several reasons. First, this responds to the explicit request of Member States at the Rio+20 Conference, for matching countries that seeks support in knowledge and capacities with the partners best suited to assist. Second, through sharing experiences, we want to learn 3 things: what has been done, what is most needed, and what are the gaps that UNOSD and other similar organizations must endeavor to bridge. And third, as the Office is now getting up to speed in mapping and brokering sustainable development knowledge, and connecting sources and users, this Consultation will inform and steer its programme on the tools, contents, and services it should provide to its clients. Ladies and Gentlemen: There is a huge amount of technical knowledge already available, exposing sustainability challenges, and proposing sustainable solutions. UNOSD is an integral part of the knowledge sharing capacity of the Division for Sustainable Development. UNOSDs efforts complement those based on Divisions Sustainable Development Knowledge Platform. For its part, UNOSD aims to facilitate access to sustainable development knowledge-- much of which already sits with you in your countries and institutions. This means finding and sharing success stories and examples of good practice, often directly between developing countries. So, this meeting provides us a great opportunity to share our experiences and insights for identifying critical knowledge needs of national decision makers and developing the means to respond effectively to those needs. One critical challenge faced by policy makers is how to improve integrated decision making, taking into account cross-disciplinary and cross-sectoral perspectives, and giving due weight to the three dimensions of sustainable development the economic, the social and the environmental.

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Over the years, much has been said about the importance of such integrated decision making, but I would venture to say that we still need to tap better the wealth of knowledge and experience on how to do it practically. That is why this meeting provides the opportunity to explore the knowledge dimensions of such integration and cross-sectoral linkages for moving sustainable development from an abstract concept to an operational reality. Ladies and Gentlemen: We expect this event to be a learning experience for all of us, improving our understanding of pressing issues, and of solutions that have worked or not. But the next important step is to plot the road ahead for bridging critical knowledge and capacity gaps. We are very fortunate to have the presence of high level experts and senior government policy makers representing key disciplines and areas of knowledge in this Consultation. So this is a great opportunity to learn and be informed on ways to contribute to filling the knowledge and capacity gaps. It is also a good opportunity to evaluate our own knowledge management and knowledge sharing strategies, and strengthen our capacity building programmes. For this partnerships can be very valuable. So, it is good to have to have so many knowledge partner organizations in the room, to learn from your wisdom and experience but also to see what sorts of partnerships we may wish to forge going forward. In concrete terms, this Consultation will produce documented observations, lessons learned, good practices, and most importantly a framework for action for knowledge sharing and capacity building. In this regard, we very much look forward to your candid observations, analyses, and actionable recommendations to guide and inspire our respective organizations both individually and collaboratively. Ladies and Gentlemen: Before concluding, I would like to take this opportunity to thank our partners for their invaluable contributions to this event, namely: the Asia-Europe Foundation, the Korea Environment Institute, and the UN Centre for Regional Development in Nagoya, Japan. I look forward to a lively and enlightening discussion. Thank you, and with this I declare the meeting open.

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By Mr. M. Aslam Chaudhry, Head of Office, UNOSD, Incheon Excellency, Mayor Song Mr. Song, Deputy Minister of Environment Dr. Lee, President of the Korea Environment Institute Mr. Nikhil Seth, Director, DSD/UNDESA Colleagues, Ladies and Gentlemen On behalf of the United Nations Office for Sustainable Development, I would like to extend you very warm welcome for coming here to Incheon to participate in this Expert Consultation on Knowledge and Capacity Needs for Sustainable Development in Post Rio+20Era. The purpose of this consultation is to serve several objectives, but mainly to support the implementation of Rio+20 outcomes by exploring what technical and policy knowledge and capacities are needed to foster transition towards sustainability. I am very pleased to see colleagues and delegations who also attended our last event in November on NSDS planning and implementation capacities. And it is promising that the community of sustainable development practitioners with whom UNOSD started working a few months ago is gradually growing. Ladies and Gentlemen: Rationale for this Expert Consultation stems from one very important reality. And that reality is--that despite notable efforts made over the last few decades, the progress in advancing sustainable development has been slow and uneven. Therefore, Rio+20 Conference reaffirmed the need to maintain course and accelerate transition to sustainable development through implementation of wide ranging actions outlined in the Conferences outcome document: The Future We Want. However, experience tells us that this will not be as straightforward as it may sound. There is already a strong recognition that we need innovative thinking and approaches to deal with the challenges at hand. This means that post-Rio implementation, in addition to political will and new commitments, will require new sets of knowledge resources, creative ideas and skills, as well as effective approaches to capacity building.

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This context, Ladies and Gentlemen, sets the stage for this Expert Consultation. Let me now walk you through the objectives, methods and what we expect in terms of results of this meeting. In terms of the objectives to be achieved, this meeting will focus on the following four issues: 1. take stock of adequacy of existing knowledge and capacity building models and initiatives contributing towards sustainability transition; 2. examine how Member States and other stakeholders could make best use of available resources to meet their knowledge and capacity needs; 3. assess critical knowledge and capacity gaps for advancing sustainable development; and, finally 4. examine possible ways to facilitate communication and collaboration between knowledge providers and users. In terms of the methodology, the Consultation will follow the format of a multistakeholder dialogue. Colleagues present in this room include senior policy-making officials of governments and experts representing a broad spectrum of organizations such as: civil society, private sector, knowledge providing networks, academic institutions, multilateral and bilateral agencies, and international NGOs. This mix of experts makes this meeting a perfect setting for a multi-stakeholder dialogue. Ladies and Gentlemen: The Consultation will consist of 3 thematic-based plenary sessions, to be further enriched through in-depth discussions in 5 working group sessions. In addition, we will have two panel discussions with reference to major outcomes of the Rio+20 Conferenceone dealing with the SDG and the other in relation to transition towards sustainability, including through green economy. As you probably have noticed from the detailed agenda, each session will start with a set of presentations aimed at introducing different aspects to be covered under the session, followed by an interactive dialogue on 3-4 key questions. These questions were developed through an extended exchange of ideas and deliberations with experts and other relevant stakeholders.

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Ladies and Gentlemen: The schedule over the next 3 days will be intensive, yet Im sure will be extremely productive. Todays program is devoted to provide an initial mapping of sust ainability transition knowledge assets, activities and actors. This will help us in defining the needs and priorities in policy-making knowledge and capacity that better reflect the post-Rio+20 institutional context and the ever evolving sustainable development parameters. Tomorrow, we will move from more generalized level of discussion to the empirical coverage of three thematic areas: water management, energy access, and sustainable agriculture. All these areas are closely related and will be crucial for eradicating poverty and achieving sustainable development. The first half of the final day could be seen in a more forward-looking context in the form of two panel discussions, while the second half will see wrapping up of the meeting including discussions on key recommendations emanating from the Consultation and next steps for following up the recommendations. Finally, Ladies and Gentlemen: In terms of results, in line with the overall theme of this meeting, our intent is to produce a framework for action for bridging knowledge and capacity gaps consistent with the needs and demands of post-Rio+20 era. In this regard, we do not aim to come up with a long list of generic actions. Instead, the idea is to identify 3-4 critical areas which should assume the centre stage for knowledge sharing and capacity building for accelerating progress through multiplier effects, especially in the three areas to be discussed during this meeting. These needs, in turn, will guide the design and delivery of products and services by the knowledge and capacity building service providers. Before closing, let me say that we look forward to your active participation in this debate. This is not an intergovernmental meeting, so please feel free to share your ideas and thoughts openly and frankly. I hope you will enjoy the discussions as much as we are looking forward to benefit from this meeting. I thank you.

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Welcome Remark 1:
By Mr. Jae-Yong Song, Deputy Minister of Environment, Republic of Korea Good morning, Your Excellencies and distinguished guests! I am honored to welcome distinguished delegates and experts who have traveled far to Incheon city from abroad. Especially, I would like to express my deepest gratitude to Director Nikhil Seth of Division for Sustainable Development within DESA and Mr. Muhammad Aslam Chaudhry, Head of UNOSD, for hosting this significant workshop. My special appreciation also goes to Mayer Song Yong-Gil of Incheon Metropolitan City who spares no effort in supporting smooth operation of the office, and president Lee Byung-Wook of KEI who supported organizing this workshop. It is a great privilege and pleasure for me to have the opportunity to deliver congratulatory remarks at the workshop of UNOSD, for which we have long had a special affection even before it launched. "Sustainable development" has become the priority goal of the entire humanity regardless of nationality or region, since 1992 when it was first incorporated in Rio Declaration. 20 years later, RIO+20 also reaffirmed the importance of "green economy" as a critical tool for sustainable development and set forth Sustainable Development Goals(SDGs), providing a new starting point of the future discussion. And today, we are embarking on a very meaningful workshop, for it will enable us to get the picture of up to date trend of international discussion by reflecting RIO+20 outputs. In particular, we will be more keen-eyed in the area of sustainable development, by integrating various studies which have been conducted independently so far and searching for measures to connect those studies with newly required knowledge and capacities Ladies and Gentlemen, Despite the global consensus on the necessity of sustainable development, delivering it into reality is never an easy work.

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Korea, for example, achieved a rapid economic development over the debris of the Korean War only in half a century, surprising the entire world and successfully shifting itself from an aid recipient to a donor country.

In the process of the unprecedentedly rapid economic growth famously-called "miracle on the Han river," however, Korea society did not afford to pay much attention to environmental conservation and social equity which previously were hardly believed to go hand in hand with economic development. In order to confront the difficulties, the Korean government launched the "Commission on Sustainable Development" in 2000 and declared the "National Vision on Sustainable Development" in 2005, thereby fundamentally shifting the paradigm of national policies. Furthermore, Korea set up a new national vision for the next 60 years - "low carbon green growth" in 2008. Thanks to the implementation of green growth policies, Korea has become the first non-Annex I country to introduce the Emissions Trading Scheme, which will be enforced from 2015. In addition, Korea made many achievements at the international level such as hosting GCF secretariat. Sustainable development policy will continue to be a top priority of the 18th administration of ROK, as Clean and sustainable environment is one of the 23 major national strategies set by the newly launched administration. Distinguished guests, Although sustainable development is a common challenge of the entire humanity, we should recognize the differences in each country's situation and capacity. Last year, the biggest obstacle standing on the way of the creation of the Rio+20 outcomes in respect to green economy and institutional frameworks for sustainable development was difference of views between developed and developing countries. Against this backdrop, the most needed is having as many opportunities of communication as possible to gather, share each country's experience and understand each other.

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In that sense, Korea is willing to share its experience in sustainable development so that the international community can find the way for co-prosperity of the global community. I have no doubt that UNOSD will play ever more important role in the future as a channel of international cooperation and knowledge sharing. Seeing much larger audience than the first workshop in last November makes me think that UNOSD is already getting on the right track even less than a year since it launched. I sincerely hope that UNOSD will grow into a flagship organization in the sustainable development area by expanding the role and scope of business. To that end, I would like to kindly ask for continued attention and support of all the participants here.

MOE of Korea will do its part as a host nation representative of UNOSD by actively sharing the experience of growing into a developed country and providing every support to the office along with Incheon City and Yonsei University. Distinguished Guests, Sustainable development and green economy are not options anymore but musts for every country to cope with the global climate change. There's a well-known saying that "Great things are done by a series of small things brought together." It is my sincere hope that this workshop will be meaningful one step towards the ultimate goal of sustainable development. And on a personal note, I wish that you will take time to visit Songdo area which is evolving into a state-of-the-art green city, and enjoy beautiful scenery and food of Korea during your stay. Once again, I would like thank all of you to be here today and share your precious time with us. I wish you all the happiness and wellness. Thank you very much.

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Welcome remark 2:
By Mr. Young-Gil Song, Mayor of Incheon Metropolitan City Good morning. On behalf of 2.9 million Incheon citizens, I would like to extend a very warm welcome to all the attending government representatives and UN officials. I also wish to express my particular gratitude to Director Nikhil Seth of UN DESA and Aslam Chaudhry of UNOSD for arranging this 3-day workshop. I hope that the participants will have productive discussions on the knowledge and capacity needs for sustainable development in post-Rio and NSDS during this workshop. At the UNCED, which was held in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, the leaders of the world adopted the Rio Declaration and Agenda 21, which set sustainable development as the common goal of the humankind. However, over the past 2 decades environmental problems have become worse despite our best efforts. At the same time, the gap between the richer and the poorer nations has continued to widen, while within each of our countries the issue of social inequality has become more serious. These crises are intertwined, and the seriousness of the situation is becoming ever more acute. Moreover, the nature of their impact is completely different from that experienced in the past. In this context, there is great expectation that this workshop will produce solutions that will raise awareness of the severity of these crises and at the same time find ways out of them. Accordingly, I hope you are successful in sharing your knowledge and experiences to achieve the outcome we are all looking for. Distinguished guests! As you know, last year our city succeeded in its efforts to invite the UNGCF Secretariat to our city. To us, it was something of a miracle. It still seems remarkable that the core organization to resolve the world's biggest challenge - climate change - will be operating in Incheon. The UNCED which was held in Rio in 1992 established the concept of "sustainable development" as a goal for humanity, a goal which the GCF is now pursuing.

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I hope that UNOSD and the GCF will work closely together in jointly responding to climate change, developing green technologies and renewable energies, and addressing the many issues which concern us all. Our city will do its best by making Incheon a model city of low carbon and green growth. To achieve this, we will spare no efforts in getting the GCF Secretariat operational as early as possible. At the same time, we will continue to transform Incheon into a global green city befitting the GCF. We will transform Incheon into a green city by setting a new 5R campaign as our top priority: Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle; Revitalization; and Renewable energy. In addition, we will partner global companies and civil groups to create the 'Incheon Hope Forest' in Mongolia to prevent desertification. Incheon was hit hardest during the Korea War, with 80% of the land destroyed in the early 1950s. But now it is the third largest city in Korea with 2.9 million people. It is also home to Incheon International Airport - the best airport in the world - and Incheon Port. These, along with Incheon Free Economic Zone, are making Incheon a business-friendly ubiquitous city. Beginning with the opening of UNAPCICT in 2006, Incheon has attracted 10 international organizations to the city, including the UNESCAP Sub regional Office and UNOSD. More international organizations, global companies and universities will move to Incheon in the future, making it possible for Incheon to play a significant role in realizing the ideals of the UN. Distinguished guests! The 17th Asian Games will be held in Incheon for 16 days from September 19th next year. We are making an unprecedented effort to prepare for this festival of sport which will be enjoyed by almost 4 billion Asians. In addition to making it a cutting-edge, eco-friendly event, we especially wish to make it a peace festival at which North and South Korea will be united. For this, I need your strong support.

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In closing, I once again express my wish that this event will generate innovative ideas and solutions to the environmental problems which concern us all. In addition to wishing you success in this endeavor, I would like to finish my remarks by wishing you all good health and happiness. Thank you.

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Keynote remark 1:
By Mr. Byung-Wook Lee, President, Korea Environment Institue, Republic of Korea It is a great pleasure for me to deliver keynote remarks for todays event, Expert Consultation on Knowledge and Capacity Needs for Sustainable Development in Post-Rio+20 Era, organized by UNOSD in partnership with the Asia-Europe Foundation (ASEF), the Korea Environment Institute (KEI) and the UN Centre for Regional Development (UNCRD). Since officially launched in October 2011, UNOSD is devoting it efforts to promote sustainable development through knowledge exchange, research and policy analysis, capacity development, and partnership and networking activities. As someone who has been both scholar and practitioner in my career, I firmly believe in the power of knowledge as a tool to enhance the effectiveness of policies, and in that sense I am very much in support of OSDs focus and also of todays Expert Consultation. As the President of Korea Environment Institute which also endeavors to produce high-quality research on sustainable development and to share it with the sustainable development practitioners around the world, I would like to express that it is our great pleasure to support and co-organize this Expert Consultation in partnership with OSD. Sustainable development has been at the forefront of international discussion now for more than two decades. Since the Rio Summit in 1992 officially recognized the sustainable development as a key to relieve global environmental problems, the concept of sustainable development has continually evolved upon numerous discussions. One of the major achievements in the conceptual discussion of sustainable development is the integration of so-called three pillars of economic growth, social development, and environmental protection. On account of such integrated approach, sustainable development can be an effective solution to the multi-faceted crises that our world is facing today. The world economy is still struggling to recover after four years since the eruption of the global financial crisis; although the world leaders committed themselves to achieving the Millennium Development Goals more than a decade ago, the hunger, lack of universal primary education, and gender inequality still remain global challenges; suffering of our global environment continues, with rapid buildup of greenhouse gases and erosion of biodiversity. One of the challenges of todays crises is that the problems are complex and interlinked. The global financial crisis is hampering the alleviation of poverty; lack of universal education is restricting the social development in many other aspects; global climate change is affecting natural habitats and agricultural activities, complicating the effort to improve food security and relieve hunger. The integrated approach of sustainable development encompassing the economic, social, and environmental dimensions can be an effective means to address such complicated and interconnected nature of todays global crises.

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Despite such conceptual evolution, realization of sustainable development takes so much more than a well-refined idea. It calls for strong political wills and commitments from each nation, effective financing mechanisms, technological development, strengthened institutional capacities, international cooperation with knowledge sharing and capacity building, and strong governance structure in international, national, and sub-national levels. Among those many factors, today I would like to stress the importance of knowledge sharing and capacity development. In order to implement the sustainable development at the global level, the transfer of technologies and experiences from developed to developing countries and also through South-South cooperation, and the communication among diverse groups as policymakers, research communities, non-governmental organizations, and local communities can be critical factors. Sharing the development experience of one country with another, and sharing scientific, technological, and empirical knowledge from research communities with policymakers and practitioners are valuable activities that can accelerate the implementation of sustainable development. Providing such venues and opportunities is a critical contribution to sustainable development, and I firmly hope this Expert Consultation will stimulate such flow of knowledge. The green economy was adopted as one of the main themes of last years Rio+20 Conference, and is being recognized as an effective tool to achieve sustainable development. In this post-Rio+20 era, it is on the forefront of development agenda, and the role of knowledge sharing and capacity building is even further emphasized. Rather than being a rigid set of rules, the green economy should be flexible means tailored to accommodate each nations circumstances. Developing such country-specific green economy strategies can be greatly facilitated by flow of knowledge in technologies, developmental experiences, and policy research. Distinguished participants, Ladies and Gentlemen, This Expert Consultation we are holding today is providing valuable opportunities for exchanging views on knowledge sharing and capacity building towards sustainable development. I sincerely hope that this Expert Consultation will produce in-depth and lively discussions and many valuable lessons, which will show us the way forward. Last but not least, I would like to express once again my deep appreciation to UNOSD and our partner, ASEF and UNCRD for organizing and supporting this Expert Consultation, and I also would like to recognize the great effort of UNOSD staff who have worked very hard to prepare for this event. At the same time, I wish ladies and gentlemen, experts, scholars, researchers and distinguished participants good health, and great success of the Expert Consultations activities. Thank you for your kind attention.

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Appendix C: Biographies of Speakers

Opening Remarks: Mr. Nikhil Seth, Director, DSD/UNDESA, New York Mr. Nikhil Seth is the Director of the Division for Sustainable Development, Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA). During his career with the United Nations since 1993, Mr. Seth has served as Special Assistant and Chief of Office to the Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs, as Secretary of the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) and the Second Committee of the General Assembly, and, most recently, as Director of the DESA Office for ECOSOC Support and Coordination (OESC). Prior to joining the United Nations, Mr. Seth served in the Indian diplomatic service, where his diplomatic assignments included Geneva, DRC, Central African Republic, Gabon and Equatorial Guinea, as well as the Permanent Mission of India, New York.

Introduction of the Consultation: Mr. M. Aslam Chaudhry, Head of Office, UNOSD Mr. M. Aslam Chaudhry is the Head of Office of United Nations Office for Sustainable Development, administered by the Division for Sustainable Development, Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA). Mr. Chaudhry is an experienced Programme Manager and Natural Resources Economist with expertise in development, management, implementation, and evaluation of sustainable development programs. His career with the United Nations Secretariat spanned over more than 22 years. Prior to joining the UNOSD, he was the Chief of Global Policy Branch of DSD/DESA, and Head of the intergovernmental cluster of Rio+20 Secretariat.

Welcome Remarks: Mr. Yoon Jong-Soo, Vice Minister of Environment, Republic of Korea (*Deputy Minister Jae-yong Song delivered remarks on his behalf) Mr. Yoon Jong-soo is the Vice-Minister of Environment and an environmental expert in sustainable development and green growth. With over 15 years at the Ministry of Environment, he has focused on the establishment and delivery of policies through various projects in planning and budget, personnel management and other major tasks. Previous roles include Director of the Environmental Policy Department, Chief of Water Supply and Sewerage Bureau and Director of the Waste Policy Division, among many others. Yoon has also contributed at the international platform on environment as an Environmental Counsellor at the Permanent Mission of the Republic of Korea to the United Nations. He has also played a pivotal role for the successful establishment of the second National Strategy for Sustainable Development (2011-2015). Yoon is a PhD holder in Environmental Engineering from Seoul University.

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Welcome Remarks: Mr. Young-Gil Song, Mayor of Incheon City Mr. Young-Gil Song is the mayor of Incheon. Before going into politics, he started his career working as a human rights lawyer and a labour movement activist. In 2000, Song was elected as the 16th National Assemblyman, with a determination to serve in the interests of the general public. He continued as a member for three terms during which time he played a crucial role in creating a law on the National Human Rights Commission. With two publications and various awards from the National Assemblyman and the Order of Legion dhonneur from the French Government, Mr. Songs top priority as current mayor is to enrich his city in economic terms. Along with his political career, Song is actively involved in various other positions including President of Ethical Committee at the Korea National Open University, Chief Educational Advisor of Dongseonambuk Forum, Vice Chairman of Foundation of Inter-Korea Cooperation, Advisor of Asia Peace and History Education Network, among others. Keynote Remarks: Mr. Byoung Wook Lee, President, Korea Environment Institute, Seoul Mr. Byoung Wook Lee is currently the President of Korea Environment Institute, Professor at Sejong University, and the Chairman of Korea Environmental Policy and Administration Society. Mr. Lee is a former Vice Minister of the Ministry of Environment, and has held senior positions including chairing and membership of several international and national committees and forums. Notable positions included: President, LG Environmental Strategy Institute; President, Business Institute for Sustainable Development, Korea Chamber of Commerce & Institute; Director, Environmental Management Center, POSCO Research Institute, among others. He also served as Chairman and Director of several Korean research and development institutes.

Keynote Remarks: Mr. Lszl Pintr, Professor, Central European University (CEU) Mr. Lszl Pintr is a professor with the Department of Environmental Sciences and Policy at Central European University (CEU) in Budapest, Hungary. Mr. Pintr lectures on sustainable development, integrated environmental assessment and adaptation at graduate levels, and leads summer courses on adaptive management and green industry. He joined IISD in 1994 and served as the Director of the Measurement and Assessment Program between 2003 and 2010. During his time at the Institute he conceptualized, contributed to and led projects with emphasis on the state of the environment and sustainability reporting, sustainable development indicators and scenarios, performance evaluation, and integrated assessment in place-based, sectoral or global contexts.

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Session 1: Knowledge and Capacity Needs and Gaps for Sustainable Development Chair: Mr. Nikhil Seth, Director, DSD/DESA, United Nations, New York (please see previous page) Presentation 1: Knowledge and Capacity Needs for Sustainable Development in Post Rio Era Speaker: Mr. Alan AtKisson, UNOSD Consultant, Stockholm Mr. Alan AtKisson is a Consultant with the UN Office for Sustainable Development, and also the President and CEO of AtKisson Group. He draws on over twenty years of leadership experience in sustainable development and advises large companies, governments, cities, foundations, NGOs, and the United Nations in the areas of sustainability indicators and reporting, climate change strategy, renewable energy finance, green economic transformation, and multi-stakeholder process facilitation. He also coaches executives on how to sharpen their knowledge, capacity, and effectiveness at leading change. Alan is the author of several books on sustainability theory and practice, as well as dozens of articles and reports. Presentation 2: Mapping of Issues, Strategies and Initiatives in Sustainable Development: A Preliminary Analysis Speaker: Mr. Franois Fortier, Senior Sustainable Development Expert, UNOSD, Incheon Mr. Franois Fortier is Senior Specialist with the UN Office of Sustainable Development. Over the past 20 years, he has worked with the UN and NGOs in over 40 countries, notably as Chief of Knowledge Operations (PAHO/WHO), Chief of Evaluation and Knowledge (WFP Bangladesh), Senior Regional Advisor (UNDP Bratislava), as well as programme consultant with ADB, FAO, IFAD, UNFPA and several other agencies. He has also taught at the University of Ottawa in Canada for six years and lectured at the Institute of Social Studies in The Netherlands in areas of information technologies for development, knowledge management and, more recently, on the climate, energy and food security crises. Presentation 3: Strengthening Knowledge-Policy-Practice Interface Towards Sustainable Development Speaker: Mr. Peter King, Senior Policy Adviser, IGES, Bangkok Mr. Peter King is the Senior Policy Advisor for the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) and has been an avid environmentalist for more than 30 years. King started his career by joining the Soil Conservation Authority of Victoria and then as a Research Fellow in the Environment and Policy Institute, East West Center in Hawaii. From 1982-1990, his consulting companies, Terra Firma Environmental Consultants and ACIL Australia, worked on environmental issues throughout Asia and the Pacific. In 1991, he joined ADB as an Environment Specialist, Office of Environment. Mr. King was appointed Manager, and subsequently Director, Pacific Operations, ADB. He currently holds a Doctor of Philosophy (Environmental Science) degree from Murdoch University in Perth.

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Presentation 4: Knowledge Sharing and Capacity Building for Sustainable Development: Lessons Learned, Challenges, and Opportunities Speaker: Ms. Grazyna Pulawska, Project Executive, Asia-Europe Foundation (ASEF), Singapore Ms. Grazyna Pulawska is the Project Executive at the Asia-Europe Foundation (ASEF). Her priority is for the Asia-Europe Environment Forum programme, which aims to strengthen co-operation between Asian and European stakeholders in the field of international framework for sustainable development. Most recently, she has been working on inter-regional consultations with regard to research on sustainable development governance. Prior to joining ASEF, Ms Pulawska worked for the Ministry of Economy in Poland in the field of regional development. She is active in the NGO community and has been working as a freelance trainer specialising in project management, citizenship and volunteering for the different international youth organizations. Presentation 5: Stakeholder Engagement in Knowledge Sharing and Capacity Building for Sustainable Development: Experiences and Lessons Learned Speaker: Mr. Felix Dodds,Tellus Institute, USA Mr. Felix Dodds is an independent consultant focusing on stakeholder engagement in the sustainable development process. He was the Executive Director of Stakeholder Forum for a Sustainable Future from 1992-2012, and is an Associate Fellow at Tellus. He has been active at the UN since 1990, attending various forums including the World Summits of Rio Earth Summit, Habitat II, Rio+5, Beijing+5, Copenhagen+5, the World Summit on Sustainable Development, and chairing the 64th UN DPI NGO Conference on Sustainable Societies Responsive Citizens feeding into Rio +20. He has written or edited nine books; his latest book, Only One Earth: the Long Road via Rio to Sustainable Development (2012) with Michael Strauss and Maurice Strong, covers the last forty years and the challenges for the future.

Session 2, Working Group 1: Experiences from Different Knowledge and Capacity Building Programmes and Networks in SD: What Has Worked and What Has Not?

Chair/Facilitator: Mr. Alan AtKisson, UNOSD Consultant, Stockholm (please see previous page)

Presentation 1: Growth of SD Knowledge and Trends in its Dissemination-- Are Knowledge Networks Competing or Complementing? Speaker: Mr. Felix Dodds,Tellus Institute, USA (please see previous page)

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Presentation 2: Revisiting Capacity Building Approaches and Models: Successes and Failures Speaker: Mr. Kees Leendertse, Cap-Net UNDP, South Africa Mr. Kees Leendertse is the Human Resources Specialist and Deputy Director at Cap-Net UNDP. He specialized in rural and economic development issues, with special focus on aquatic resources. Mr. Leenderste has contributed to international forums and published several position papers on social, economic and institutional aspects of water resources management. His previous positions include Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the Netherlands, FAOs Fisheries Department in Rome, and WL|Delft Hydraulics in Egypt. He also worked as an independent consultant on projects related to resources management and knowledge transfer on relevant subjects.

Presentation 3: Have Knowledge Platforms Helped in Strengthening Capacities of Developing Countries in Sustainable Development? Speaker: Ms. Jane Rovins, Executive Director, Integrated Research on Disaster Risk, Beijing Ms. Jane Rovins is the Executive Director for the Integrated Research on Disaster Risk and Head of Office for the International Programme Office in Beijing, China. She has over 16 years of experience in international development and disaster management. Her role includes coordinating and implementing disaster risk research globally and developing and establishing international networks. Previous positions include Associate Professor at the American Military University, President of Global Disaster Solutions, LLC, and Coordinator at Center of Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance (CDMHA), among others. In addition, she serves on global advisory boards for a variety of hazard and disaster projects and programmes, and is a chair and member of various committees.

Session 2, Working Group 2: SD Knowledge Management for Capacity Building in Post Rio+20 Era Chair/Facilitator: Mr. Lszl Pintr, Professor, Department of Environmental Sciences and Policy, Central European University, Budapest (please see previous page)

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Presentation 1: Impact of Knowledge Platforms and Networks in Advancing Sustainable Development Speaker: Mr. Kimo Goree, Director Reporting, IISD Mr. Langston James Goree VI, also known as "Kimo", directs IISD's Reporting Services and is responsible for building and maintaining the relationships between IISD and the various programs and agencies of the UN and other multilateral organizations. His expertise is in the use of the emerging information technologies to provide information and knowledge products for decision makers in the areas of environment and sustainable development policy. Goree is also a senior advisor to United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) for information and communication. Presentation 2: Challenges in Connecting Traditional Capacity Building Models to New Agenda and Knowledge Speaker: Mr. Jacques Prescott, Associate Professor, Chair on Eco-Advising, Universit du Qubec Mr. Jacques Prescott is an Associate Professor at the University of Quebec, and also an international consultant in the field of biodiversity, sustainable development and environmental governance. He started his career as the curator and director of the Quebec zoological garden and subsequently joined the Quebec Department of Environment to coordinate the implementation of the UN biodiversity Convention and the development of the provinces sustainable development framework and strategy. He is a well-known author, and has published books and hundreds of articles on zoology, biodiversity, environment and sustainable development. Presentation 3: Informing Global Stewardship from Local Experience: the GEF KM Strategy Speaker: Ms. Patrizia Cocca, Communication Officer & KM Coordinator, Global Environment Facility, Washington

Ms. Patrizia Cocca joined the GEF's External Affairs team, on May 5 2008, as Communications Officer. She is responsible for managing the GEF website and coordinates the development and dissemination of electronic content, including social media. More recently she has been coordinating the development and implementation of the GEF Knowledge Management Initiative. Previously, she worked in Costa Rica as coordinator for Regional Unit for Technical Assistance (RUTA), and World Bank's EXT Development Communication (DevComm) division, focusing on free trade and rural development issues in Central America.

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Day 2, Session 3: Unlocking the Potential of Water-Energy-Agriculture Nexus for Poverty Eradication Chair: Mr. M. Aslam Chaudhry, Head of Office, UNOSD (please see previous page) Keynote Address: Education and Capacity Building for Sustainability Speaker: Mr. Arjen Wals, Professor of Social Learning and Sustainable Development, Wageningen University, The Netherlands Mr. Arjen Wals is a Professor and holds the UNESCO Chair of Social Learning and Sustainable Development as well as an Associate Professor in Environmental Education. In addition he is an Adjunct Faculty member at Cornell University and a Visiting Professor at the University of Gothenburg. His teaching and research focuses on learning processes that contribute to a more sustainable world. He has (co)published and (co) edited over 150 articles, chapters and books on topics like: action research & community problem-solving, whole school approaches to sustainability, biodiversity education, multi-stakeholder social learning, and sustainability in higher education.He is also a co-editor of Learning for Sustainability in Times of Accelerating Change which was launched at the Rio+20 Earth Summit. Presentation 1: Capacity Building in Strengthening Water Cooperation for Sustainable Development - Trends and Results Speaker: Mr. Anton Earle, Director, Capacity Development, SIWI, Stockholm Mr. Anton Earle joined SIWI in 2008 as Programme Director of Capacity Building. He is responsible for organising, facilitating and lecturing at SIWIs International Training Programmes (ITPs) in Transboundary Water Management (Global, MENA and Lake Victoria) and the Integrated Water Resources Management (Global, Zambezi and West Africa). Prior to his work at SIWI, Mr. Earle was Director of the African Centre for Water Research and Deputy Head at the African Water Issues Research Unit (AWIRU) at the University of Pretoria, where he led projects and research on diverse water resource management and governance issues on rivers. Presentation 2: Providing Sustainable Energy for All: Need for Additional Knowledge and Capacities Speaker: Mr. Mark Hopkins, International Energy Efficiency Director, United Nations Foundation, USA Mr. Mark Hopkins is an internationally recognized expert in energy efficiency, with more than 30 years of experience in policy and program development. He is the former executive vice president of the Alliance to Save Energy, where he developed an international program that helped to improve energy efficiency in 20 transitional and developing countries. More recently, Mr. Hopkins served in the private sector, developing a new clean-energy business model for Lockheed Martin. He is leading the UN Foundations new initiative to organize the energy efficiency business community to help UN member countries set specific energy efficiency improvement goals and implement quantifiable policies to achieve those goals.

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Presentation 3: Managing Water-Energy and Agriculture Nexus for Poverty Eradication: Evidence From the Field Speaker: Mr. Eric Kemp-Bendict, Centre Director, Stockholm Environment Institute, Bangkok Mr. Eric Kemp-Benedict is a Centre Director at the Stockholm Environment Institute. His work focuses on sustainable development planning and scenario analysis. Past and current projects include scenario development for the Center for International Forestry Research, the Global Scenario Group, UNEPs Global Environment Outlook, the Comprehensive Assessment of Freshwater in Agriculture, and studies in West Africa, the Baltic Sea, and China. In his facilitation and capacity-building work, Dr. Kemp-Benedict actively develops and applies tools and methods for participatory and study-specific sustainability analyses. As a scenario modeler, he specializes in the development of application-specific models within a participatory framework. In addition to scenario analysis and scenario modeling in general, Dr. Kemp-Benedicts particular areas of interest include water, livestock, and land use; poverty and income distribution; and social dynamics.

Presentation 4: Learning from Best Practices in Water, Energy and Sustainable Agriculture Speaker: Mr. Jacques Prescott, Associate Professor, Chair on Eco-Advising, Universit du Qubec (please see previous page)

Presentation 5: Advancing Sustainable Development: Mainstreaming Water-Energy-Sustainable Agriculture in Regional Development Planning Context Speaker: Mr. Masao Takano, Associate Professor, Graduate School of Environment Studies, Nagoya University, Japan Mr. Masao Takano is an Associate Professor at Nagoya Universitys Graduate School of Environment Studies, which he helped establish. He is also an associate professor at the Graduate School of Science. Takanos earlier research at the University, The Decoding Earth Evolution Program, was to investigate the history of the earth and approach geohistory from the concept of the co-evolution of life and earth. He is currently working with experts to launch the Millennial Sustainability Studies program, designed to create systems for societies to survive in a thousand years time. Mr. Takano envisions a Millennial Sustainable Society in his community within Nagoya thus contributes in his capacity through collaboration with government and local NPOs.

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Chair/Facilitator: Mr. Anton Earle, Director Capacity Development Office, SIWI, Stockholm (please see previous page) Presentation 1: Capacity Building Needs for Water Management vis--vis Current Practices Speaker: Mr. Michael Douglass, Professor, National University of Singapore Mr. Michael Douglass is a Professor at the National University of Singapore. Prior to 2012 he was the Executive Director of the Globalization Research Center at the University of Hawaii. He is also Co-Editor of the journal, International Development Planning Review. He previously taught at the Institute of Social Studies (Netherlands) and at the University of East Anglia (U.K.). He has also been a Visiting Scholar/Professor at Stanford University, UCLA, Tokyo University, Thammasat University and the National University of Singapore. He has joined numerous research and planning projects and has been a consultant for international development institutions as well as national and local governments in Asia.

Presentation 2: Strengthening Linkages between Research and Farmers for Improving Agriculture Water Management Speaker: Mr. Khalid Riaz, Professor of Management Sciences, Comsats University, Islamabad Mr. Khalid Riaz is the Head of Management Sciences Department at COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan. His work has focused on issues at food, agriculture and water nexus. He has studied rural food consumption patterns, agricultural productivity growth, dairy cooperatives, and integration of agricultural commodity markets. As Chief Technical Advisor for UNDESA water program in Yemen, he was engaged in water policy and regional water resources management planning. He was one of the main contributors to Yemens National Water Sector Strategy and Investment Plan (2004-08). He served as Natural Resource Economist at the World Bank, and as Agricultural Economist at the International Irrigation Management Institute (now IWMI). He has 15 journal publications and about 30 research reports to his credit.

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Working Group 4: Knowledge and Capacity Needs for Providing Energy Access to All Chair/Moderator: Mr. Mark Hopkins, International Energy Efficiency Director, UNF, USA (please see previous page) Presentation 1: Knowledge and Capacity Needs and Solutions for Sustainability Transition in Post Rio Era Speaker: Mr. Arjen Wals, Professor of Social Learning and SD, Wageningen University, The Netherlands (please see previous page)

Presentation 2: Addressing the Energy Gap in Developing Countries through Capacity Building and Knowledge Sharing Speaker: Mr. Dilip Ahuja, Professor of Science and Technology Policy, National Institutes of Advanced Studies, Banglore Mr. Dilip Ahuja is the ISRO Professor of Science and Technology Policy and Anchor of the Energy and Environment Policy Programme at the National Institute of Advanced Studies. Previously, he was a Senior Policy Advisor to the Global Leadership for Climate Action at the UN Foundation in Washington, DC. Earlier, Mr. Ahuja worked as a Senior Environmental Specialist at the Global Environment Facility Secretariat in Washington, DC. He has carried out research at notable institutions, and his research included estimating global warming potentials of greenhouse gases, energy savings from changes in Indian Standard Time, emission factors from small-scale biomass burning and national inventories of greenhouse gases. Presentation 3: Technology Transfer to and Capacity Building of Developing Countries Speaker: Mr. Johng-Ihl Lee, Professor at the Department of Technology and Society, State University of New York (SUNY), Korea Mr. Johng-Ihl Lee is a Professor of DTS(Department of Technology and Society), at SUNY Korea located in Incheon. His professional interest is in international technology cooperation and R&D project evaluation. Dr. Lee has played a major role in developing Koreas technology policy and led Korea to become an associate member of EUREKA network. He laid the foundation of Koreas international programs by developing and implementing many R&D programs such as the Korea-US Technology Program(KORUS). As a CE(chief executive) of the KORIL-RDF(Korea-Israel Industrial R&D Foundation) and the first Koreas NPC(National Project Coordinator) for EUREKA, he has contributed to the R&D globalization in Korea. He is also consulting many developing countries for technology policy and international cooperation strategy, taking advantage of rich experiences on international collaboration and technology transfer.

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Working Group 5: Sustainable Agriculture, Food Security and Climate Change Chair/Moderator: Mr. Eric Kemp-Benedict, Centre Director, Stockholm Environment Institute, Bangkok (please see previous page) Presentation 1: Food Security and Sustainable Development in Post Rio+20 Era Speaker: Mr. David OConner, Chief of Policy and Analysis Branch, DSD/DESA, UN Mr. David O'Connor is Chief of the Policy and Analysis Branch of the Division for Sustainable Development at the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs. He led the substantive support to the negotiation of the Rio+20 outcome document, The Future We Want. Before joining the UN, OConnor was Senior Economist at the OECD Development Centre, researching the many areas of sustainable development. He has also published extensively on climate policies and their co-benefits in developing countries. O'Connor and his team are now centrally engaged in supporting the Rio+20 processes to define sustainable development goals (SDGs), to develop a financing strategy for sustainable development and to explore options for a technology facilitation mechanism to encourage international cooperation in development and transfer of clean and environmentally sound technologies. Presentation 2: Sustainable Agriculture and Adaptation to Climate Change: Knowledge Gaps and Needs Speaker: Ms. Eva Ludi, Overseas Development Institute, United Kingdom Ms. Eva Ludi is Research Fellow in the Water Policy Programme at the Overseas Development Institute. She is a member of the Protected Livelihoods and Agricultural Growth (PLAG) Programme and the Water Policy Programme (WPP). She is a geographer with a diverse project portfolio. She has over ten years of experience in research and policy with a special focus on Ethiopia and other East African countries particularly related to sustainable rural development and sustainable natural resource management, having previously worked at the Centre for Development and Environment, Bern University. Presentation 4: Knowledge Management for Agriculture: FAO Experience Speaker: Mr. Gerard Sylvester, Knowledge and Informational Management Officer, FAO, Bangkok Mr. Gerard Sylvester is the Knowledge and Information Management Officer at the FAO office in Bangkok. He is responsible for initiating and managing collaborations with partners around the Asia and Pacific region to improve sustainable development through the application of modern information and communication technology (ICT). Gerard has worked on ICT related projects in many countries in the Asia-Pacific region and Africa. He is pursuing his PhD in Knowledge Management with expertise in Semantic Technologies in support of Knowledge Management, Information and Communication Technology for Development (ICT4D), e-Learning technologies, IT & Network security.

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Day 3, Session 5: Implementing Rio+20 Outcomes: The Way Forward for Knowledge Sharing and Capacity Building Panel 1: Sustainable Development Goals and New Architecture for SD Governance Chair/Moderator: Mr. Thierry Schwarz, Director for Intellectual Exchange, ASEF, Singapore Mr. Thierry Schwarz is the Director for Intellectual Exchange at ASEF by being nominated by the French government in 2012. Prior to his secondment to ASEF, he was Adviser to the Council for Administrative Reform and Founder and Director of the Joint Master Degree program of Public Management between the French National School of Public Administration (ENA) and the Royal University of Law and Economics in Phnom Penh. From 2001 to 2007, Thierry was Regional Counsellor for Cooperation in South-East Asia with the French Embassy in Bangkok and Deputy Counsellor for Cooperation with the French Embassy in Beijing. Thierrys other prior experiences include CEO Asia-Pacific Region of the Waste Management Division, Suez Environment in Singapore, CEO Moulinex-Krups North America in New Jersey and Executive Vice President International Operations, Moulinex-Krups in Paris, among others.

Panelist 1: Mr. Surendra Shrestha, Director, United Nations Environment Programme, New York Mr. Surendra Shrestha is the Director of Strategic Resource Mobilization and Special Initiatives with UNEP. Working closely with various development partners, he oversees their strategic resource mobilization and relevant policy development projects. Before joining UNEP, he held senior positions at the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) and the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD). He brings to UNEP more than twenty years of expertise in mobilizing political and financial support for UNEP's programmes and leading multi-disciplinary teams in the areas of assessment, policy development and multilateral agreements at regional and global level. Prior to his current position, Shrestha worked as UNEP's Regional Director and Representative for Asia and the Pacific where he spearheaded the formulation of the UNEP Asia Pacific strategy and implementation plan. Panelist 2: Mr. Lszl Pintr, Professor, Central European University (CEU), Budapest (please see previous page)

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Panelist 3: Ms. Ella Antonio, President, The Earth Council Asia Pacific, Philippines Ms. Ella Antonio is the President of Brain Trust: Knowledge and Options for Sustainable Development, Inc., a Philippine-based think tank that has been conducting research studies and capacity building projects for government, private sector and international development institutions. She has been very much involved in NGO work as President of Earth Council Asia-Pacific, Inc; Vice President of EARTH Institute Asia, Inc.; and Founding Trustee of pagbabago@pilipinas. Formally, Ms Antonio had an extensive career in the public service, primarily at the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA), the national planning agency of the Philippines.

Panelist 4: Ms. Zeenat Niazi, Vice President, Development Alternatives, India Ms. Zeenat Niazi is the Vice President and Head of Communications Solutions Branch at Development Alternatives in India. With over 22 years of experience in the field of habitat processes and housing technology involving women construction workers, masons and Womens Self Help Groups, she has managed, coordinated and built capacities in numerous projects in both social housing and post-disaster situations. Her engagement with climate change issues has included coordination of knowledge development and dissemination for low carbon rural construction in India and South Asia with the support of the Climate and Development Knowledge Network, as well as GHG reduction and climate change capacity building for the semi-arid Bundelkhand region in collaboration with the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation.

Panelist 5: Mr. David OConner, DSD/DESA, UN, New York (please see previous page)

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Panel 2: Knowledge and Capacity Needs for Accelerating Transition Towards Green Economy

Chair/Moderator: Mr. Nikhil Seth, Director, DSD/DESA, United Nations, New York (please see previous page)

Panelist 1: Mr. Peter King, Senior Policy Adviser, IGES, Bangkok (please see previous page)

Panelist 2: Mr. Felix Dodds,Tellus Institute, USA (please see previous page)

Panelist 3: Mr. Eric Kemp-Benedict, Centre Director, Stockholm Environment Institute, Bangkok (please see previous page)

Panelist 4: Ms. Eva Ludi, Overseas Development Institute, United Kingdom (please see previous page)

Panelist 5: Mr. Lee Myung Kyoon, Director, Green Growth Planning and Implementation, GGGI, Seoul Mr. Lee Myung Kyoon is the Director of Green Growth Planning and Implementation at Global Green Growth Institute. Previously, he has been a professor at Keimyung University in the faculty of environment as well as Senior Economist at UNEP Risoe Center for Energy, Climate and Sustainable Development, where he managed its Capacity Development for the CDM (CD4CDM) programme and led its Climate Change cluster. He previously worked for LG Economic Research Institute and Korea Environment Institute and has published widely on energy, environment and development issues.

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Country Delegations Albania Mr. Rrezart Fshazi Head of Integration Unit Ministry of Environment, Forest and Water Administration Tel: (355) 67 2051 962Fax: (355) 4 2270 627 E-mail: rezart.fshazi [at] moe.gov.al Angola Mr. Milton Reis Head of Department Ministry Planning and Territorial Development Tel: (244) 222 390 001Fax: (244) 923 588 383 E-mail: miltonreisk [at] gmail.com Azerbaijan Mr. Shahin Allahverdiyev Chief Advisor of Monitoring Department Ministry of Emergency Situations, State Water Resources Agency Tel: (994) 50 3818 685Fax: (994) 12 512 4802 E-mail: sh.allahverdiyev [at] gmail.com Belize Ms. Tanya Santos Forest Officer, Forest Department Ministry of Forestry, Fisheries and Sustainable Development Tel: (501) 802 1524Fax: (501) 802 1523 E-mail: sfm.fd [at] ffsd.gov.bz Bhutan Mr. Tenzin Dhendup Director General, Department of Agriculture Ministry of Agriculture and Forests Tel: (975) 2 322805Fax: (975) 2 323562 E-mail: tenzind10 [at] yahoo.com Burundi Mr. Faustin Habimana Program Director Ministry of Finance and Planning Tel: (257) 79 92 6897 E-mail: habi_f [at] yahoo.fr Dominican Republic Mr. Jefrey Lizardo Director General of Economic and Social Development Ministry of Economy, Planning and Development Tel: (809) 221 5140 ext. 2276Fax: (809) 221 8627 E-mail: jlizardo [at] economia.gov.do, jefreylizardo [at] gmail.com

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 Egypt Mr. Atwa Hussien Head Egyptian National Secretariat for Sustainable Development Tel: 01227190225 E-mail: dr_atwaatwa [at] yahoo.com Finland Ms. Kaisa Leidy Deputy Head of Mission, First Secretary Embassy of Finland, Seoul Tel: (82) (0)2 732 6737 ext. 203Fax: (82) (0)2 732 4969 E-mail: kaisa.leidy [at] formin.fin France Mr. Eric Sanson Counsellor Embassy of France, Seoul Tel: (82) (0)10 9385 3273Fax: (82) (0)2 3149 4327 E-mail: eric.sanson [at] diplomatie.gouv.fr Gabon Mr. Erick Rona Ntchorere Permanent Member of the Committee on Sustainable Development Ministry of Economy and Sustainable Development Tel: (241) 74 30 65, (241) 06 26 75 25Fax: (241) 74 30 65 E-mail: ntchorere [at] yahoo.fr Ghana Mr. Rudolf Sandy Kuuzegh Director Ministry of Environment, Science and Technology Tel: (233) 24 415 8319Fax: (233) 30 266 0005 E-mail: sandykuuz [at] yahoo.co.uk Guyana Mr. Veetal Rajkumar Head of Policy Planning Coordination Unit Ministry of Natural Resources and the Environment Tel: (592) 612 8652 E-mail: vrajkumar [at] nre.gov.gy Honduras Mr. Marco Lainez Ordonez Sub-secretary of Environment Secretary of National Resources and Environment Tel: (504) 9719 5465 E-mail: cooperacionserna [at] gmail.com, marco_lainez [at] hotmail.com Indonesia Ms. Dra. Liana Bratasida Special Assistant Minister for Sectoral Cooperation

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Ministry of the Environment Tel: (62) 21 580 9633 E-mail: lianab125 [at] yahoo.com Ms. Laksmi Dhewanthi Rustiawan Assistant Deputy Minister for Environmental Data and Information Ministry of Environment, Republic of Indonesia Tel: (62) 21 858 0081Fax: (62) 21 858 0081 E-mail: ldhewanthi [at] gmail.com Iran Mr. Javad Momeni Expert, Councillor Ministry of Foreign Affairs Tel: (98) 21 6115 4450Fax: (98) 21 6115 4515 E-mail: javadmomeni2012 [at] gmail.com Israel Mr. David Levy Deputy Chief of Mission Embassy of Israel to Korea Tel: (82) 2 3210 8502Fax: (82) 2 3210 8555 E-mail: dcm [at] seoul.mfa.gov.il Kenya Mr. Charles Konyango Director of Infrastructure and Physical Planning Ministry of State for Development of Northern Kenya and Arid Lands Tel: (254) 020 2214339 E-mail: konyangonet [at] yahoo.com Korea, Republic of Mr. Ho-Joong Lee Director, Policy Coordination Division Ministry of Environment Tel: (82) 44 201 6640Fax: (82) 44 201 6654 E-mail: hohojoong [at] hanmail.net Mr. Song-Jun Ohm Ambassador for International Relations Incheon Metropolitan City Tel: (82) (0)32 440 3020Fax: (82) (0)32 440 8606 E-mail: songjunohm [at] hotmail.com, songjunohm [at] gmail.com Mr. Jun Wan Deputy Director, Policy Coordination Division Ministry of Environment Tel: (82) 44 201 6645Fax: (82) 44 201 6654 E-mail: moejw [at] naver.com Laos Mr. Boonsri Phuthavong

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Deputy of Head of Division Lao Academy of Social Sciences Tel: (856) 20 56917876Fax: (856) 21 900814 E-mail: boonsri22 [at] gmail.com Liberia Mr. Lee Mason Development Planning Coordinator Ministry of Planning and Economics Affairs Tel: (231) 886 546346 E-mail: lmason [at] mopea.gov.lr, leesonnymason [at] yahoo.com Mauritius Ms. Davetee Rajkoomar Divisional Environment Officer Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development Tel: (230) 212 0589Fax: (230) 208 7866 E-mail: drajkoomar [at] mail.gov.mu Mongolia Ms. Manaljav Turbayar Adviser to the Minister Ministry of Environment and Green Development Tel: (976) 51 262830Fax: 976 11 326595 E-mail: turbayar_lawyer [at] yahoo.com Ms. Bayasgalan Naranzul Officer of the Environmental Protection Fund Ministry of Environment and Green Development Tel: (976) 51 262830Fax: (976) 11 326595 E-mail: naranzulb [at] yahoo.com Montenegro Ms. Bosiljka Vukovic Head of Division for the Support to the National Council for Sustainable Development Ministry of Sustainable Development Tel: (382) 67 634 248, (382) 20 241 536 E-mail: bosiljka.vukovic [at] kor.gov.me Morocco Mr. Rachid Tahiri Head of Service, National Council of Environment Ministry of Energy, Mines, Water and Environment Tel: (212) 661550043Fax: (212) 537716730 E-mail: r_tahiri [at] yahoo.fr Nepal Mr. Nabaraj Gautam Graduate School of International and Area Studies Hankuk University of Foreign Studies Tel: (82) (0)10 4486 3137 E-mail: nabarajgautam [at] gmail.com
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 Philippines Ms. Maria Diosa L. de Mesa Senior Economic Development Specialist Natural Resources Division - NEDA Agriculture Staff and Coordinating Secretariat for the Philippine Council for Sustainable Development (PCSD) Tel: (63) 2 631 0945 local 305Fax: (63) 2 6317345 E-mail: MLdeMesa [at] neda.gov.ph Rwanda Mr. Peter Katanisa Sector Wide Approach (SWAP) Coordinator Ministry of Natural Resources Tel: (250) 788 414 201Fax: (250) 252 582 628 E-mail: katanisapeter [at] gmail.com Senegal Mr. Antoine Faye Consultant and Member Senegalese Committee on Climate Change Tel: (221) 77 120 7014 E-mail: fayan1161 [at] yahoo.com Seychelles Ms. Jeanette Larue Technical Advisor for Environmental Education Ministry of Environment and Energy Tel: (248) 272 3997Fax: (272) 461 0648 E-mail: j.larue [at] env.gov.sc South Sudan Mr. Paul Demetry Inspector for Biodiversity Ministry of Environment Tel: (211) 95 660 0801 E-mail: ladolodemen [at] yahoo.com Sri Lanka Mr. K.D. Perera Director Department of National Planning Tel: (94) 11 2484567Fax: (94) 11 2448063 E-mail: pererar [at] npd.treasury.gov.lk Swaziland Mr. Stephen Zuke Director of Policy, Research and Information Swaziland Environment Authority Tel: (268) 24 04 7893Fax: (268) 24 04 1719 E-mail: stephen_zuke [at] hotmail.com, szuke1959 [at] gmail.com Sweden Mr. Petter Lycke
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Second Secretary, Embassy of Sweden Tel: (82) 2 3703 3700Fax: (82) 2 3703 3701 E-mail: petter.lyke [at] gov.se Tanzania Mr. Albinus Mugonya Principal Economist, Prime Minister's Office Regional Administration & Local Government Tel: (255) 26 2322848Fax: (255) 26 2322116 E-mail: nyegolo [at] yahoo.com Tajikistan Mr. Umed Davalatzod Deputy Minister Ministry of Economic Development and Trade Tel: (992) 37 221 52 07Fax: (992) 37 227 34 34 E-mail: umed75 [at] mail.ru Togo Mr. Oyetounde Djiwa Coordonateur de Programme Ministere de l'Environnement et des Ressources Forestieres Tel: (228) 900 93551Fax: (228) 222 10333 E-mail: oyedjiwa [at] hotmail.fr Turkey Ms. Ayse Yildirim Cosgun Head of Division Ministry of Forestry and Water Affairs Tel: (90) 312 207 63 97Fax: (90) 312 207 51 87 E-mail: aycosgun [at] ormansu.gov.tr USA Mr. Matthew Steed Second Secretary United States Embassy Tel: (82) 2 397 4484 E-mail: steedmm [at] state.gov Uzbekistan Mr. Salamat Erejepov Head of Logistics Department Center of Hydro Meteorological Service at Cabinet of Ministers of Uzbekistan Tel: (998) 71 150 86 05Fax: (998) 71 235 8359 E-mail: erejepovs [at] gmail.com, uzhymet [at] meteo.uz Vietnam Ms. Tran Thu Huong Agenda 21 Official Ministry of Planning and Investment Tel: (84) 4 3747 4824Fax: (84) 4 3747 3602

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United Nations
United Nations Centre for Regional Development (UNCRD) Ms. Chikako Takase Director Tel: (81) 52 561 9377Fax: (81) 52 561 9374 E-mail: takase [at] un.org, takasec [at] uncrd.or.jp United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA) Division for Sustainable Development (DSD) Mr. Nikhil Seth Director Tel: (1) (212) 963 1811Fax: (1) (212) 963 4260 E-mail: seth [at] un.org Mr. David OConnor Chief, Policy Analysis and Networks Branch Tel: (1) (212) 963 4677Fax: (1) (212) 963 4260 E-mail: oconnor3 [at] un.org Capacity Development Office (CDO) Ms. Marie Oveissi Head of Office Tel: (1) (212) 963 0215 E-mail: oveissi [at] un.org United Nations Office for Sustainable Development (UNOSD) Mr. Muhammad Aslam Chaudhry Head of Office Tel: (82) (0)32 822 9084Fax: (82) (0)32 822 9089 E-mail: chaudhry [at] un.org Mr. Francois Fortier Senior Sustainable Development Expert Tel: (82) (0)32 822 9085Fax: (82) (0)32 822 9089 E-mail: fortier [at] un.org

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Mr. Sang-In Kang Senior Development Management Expert Tel: (82) (0)32 822 9086Fax: (82) (0)32 822 9089 E-mail: kangs [at] un.org Mr. Ola Goransson Expert Tel: (82) (0)32 822 9088Fax: (82) (0)32 822 9089 E-mail: goransson [at] un.org Ms. Ilae Kim Administrative Assistant Tel: (82) (0)32 822 9087Cell: (82) (0)10 4434 7282Fax: (82) (0)32 822 9089 E-mail: kim23 [at] un.org Ms. Shelley Choi Team Assistant Tel: (82) (0)32 822 9088Cell: (82) (0)10 8620 2140Fax: (82) (0)32 822 9089 E-mail: choi9 [at] un.org, choi9un [at] gmail.com Ms. Jee Hae Jun Consultant Tel: (82) (0)32 822 9088Fax: (82) (0)32 822 9089 E-mail: jeehae.jun [at] gmail.com United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Mr. Kees Leendertse Senior HRD Specialist and Deputy Director, Cap-Net Tel: (27) 12 3309074 Fax: (27) 12 3314860 E-mail: Kees.leendertse [at] cap-net.org Mr. Seong-Min Cho Energy Policy Research Assistant UNDP Seoul Policy Centre Tel: (82) (0)2 3290 5203 Fax: (82) (0)2 3290 5210 E-mail: seong.min.cho [at] undp.org United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Mr. Surendra Shrestha UNEP Office, New York Tel: (1) (212) 963 8210 Fax: (1) (212) 963 7341 E-mail: Surendra.Shrestha [at] unep.org United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP) Mr. Sangmin Nam Environmental Affairs Officer, Subregional Office for East and North-East Asia (SRO-ENEA) Tel: (82) (0)32 458 6602 Fax: (82) (0)32 458 6699 E-mail: nams [at] un.org

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 United Nations Foundation (UNF) Mr. Mark Hopkins Director of International Energy Efficiency Tel: (1) (202) 778 3518 Fax: (1) (202) 650 5350 E-mail: mhopkins [at] unfoundation.org Ms. Lauren Gritzke Program Associate, Energy Efficiency Tel: (1) (202) 778 1625 Fax: (1) (202) 650 5350 E-mail: lgritzke [at] unfoundation.org United Nations Disaster Risk Reduction Secretariat (UNISDR) Mr. Glenn Dolcemascolo Head of Office, Office for Northeast Asia and Global Education and Training Institute (GETI) Tel: (82) (0)32 458 6551 ext. 182 Fax: (82) (0)32 458 6598 E-mail: dolcemascolo [at] un.org Mr. Armen Rostomyan Programme Officer, Office for Northeast Asia and Global Education and Training Institute (GETI) Tel: (82) (0)32 458 6551 ext. 185 Fax: (82) (0)32 458 6598 E-mail: rostomyan [at] un.org Mr. Yongkyun Kim Institute Coordinator, Office for Northeast Asia and Global Education and Training Institute (GETI) Tel: (82) (0)32 458 6580 Fax: (82) (0)32 458 6599 E-mail: kim68 [at] un.org Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific (FAORAP) Mr. Gerard Sylvester Knowledge and Information Management Officer Tel: (66) 2 697 4000 Fax: (66) 2 697 4445 E-mail: gerard.sylvester [at] fao.org United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) Mr. Dal-ho Chung Executive Director, Centre Intl de Formation des Autorits/Acteurs Locaux (CIFAL) Jeju Tel: (82) (0) 64-735-6580 Fax: (82) (0) 64 738-4626 E-mail: dhchung49 [at] gmail.com

International Institutions, NGOs, Other Experts

Asia-Europe Foundation (ASEF) Mr. Thierry Schwarz Director, Intellectual Exchange Tel: (65) 6874 9700 Fax: (65) 6872 1125 E-mail: Thierry.schwarz [at] asef.org Ms. Grazyna Pulawska Project Executive, Intellectual Exchange Tel: (65) 6874 9738Fax: (65) 6872 1207
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E-mail: grazyna.pulawska [at] asef.org Asia Europe Meeting Small & Medium Enterprises Eco-Innovation Center (ASEIC) Mr. Hong-Ju Park Senior Manager, Green Business & Technology Support Department Tel: (82) 2 769 6861 Fax: (82) 2 780 3892 E-mail: itogod [at] sbc.or.kr Ms. Yae Rin Oh Assistant Programme Officer Tel: (82) 2 769 6969 Fax: (82) 2 769 6919 E-mail: oyr118 [at] sbc.or.kr, oyr118 [at] hanmail.net AtKisson, Inc. Mr. Alan AtKisson President, Consultant to UNOSD/UNDESA Tel: (46) 70 992 6979 E-mail: Alan.AtKisson [at] AtKisson.com Development Alternatives Mr. Zeenat Niazi Vice President Tel: (91) 11 2656 4444 Fax: Fax: (91) 11 2685 1158 E-mail: zniazi [at] devalt.org Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI) Mr. Myung Kyoon Lee Director of Green Growth Planning and Implementation Tel: (82) (0)70-7117-9958 Fax: (82) (0)2-2096-9990 E-mail: mk.lee [at] gggi.org Global Environment Facility Ms. Patrizia Cocca Communication Officer and KM Coordinator Tel: (1) (202) 458 0234 Fax: (1) (202) 522 3240 E-mail: pcocca [at] TheGEF.org Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) Mr. Peter King Senior Policy Advisor Tel: (66) 85811948 Fax: (82) 2 6518798 E-mail: king [at] iges.or.jp Mr. Simon Olsen Policy Researcher, Governance and Capacity Team Tel: (81) 46-826-9603 Fax: (81) 46-855-3809 E-mail: olsen [at] iges.or.jp Integrated Research on Disaster Risk (IRDR) Ms. Jane Rovins Executive Director Tel: (86) 10 8217 8905 E-mail: jane.rovins [at] irdrinternational.org

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 International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) Mr. Langston James Kimo Goree VI Vice President, Reporting Services and United Nations Liaison Tel: (1) 973 273 5860 E-mail: kimo [at] iisd.org Korea Environment Institute (KEI) Mr. Byung Wook Lee President Tel: (82) (0)2 380 7777 Fax: (82) (0)2 380 7799 E-mail: bklee [at] kei.re.kr Ms. So Hyun Kim Researcher, Global Strategy Center Tel: (82) (0)2 6922 7871 Fax: (82) (0)2 6922 7866 E-mail: shkwon [at] kei.re.kr Overseas Development Institute Ms. Eva Ludi Research Fellow Tel: (44) 20 7922 0401, (44) 77 24 980 192 E-mail: e.ludi [at] odi.org.uk Regional Environmental Center for Central and Eastern Europe (REC) Ms. Dora Almassy Expert Tel: (36) 26 504 000 ext. 309 Fax: (36) 26 311 294 E-mail: dalmassy [at] rec.org Stockholm Environment Institute Mr. Eric Kemp-Benedict Centre Director Tel: (66) 225 144 15 E-mail: eric.kemp-benedict [at] sei-international.org Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI) Mr. Anton Earle Director, Capacity Building Tel: (46) 8 121 360 83 E-mail: anton.earle [at] siwi.org The Earth Council Asia Pacific Ms. Ella Antonio President Tel: (632) 4014023, 5710485 Fax: (632) 7484620 E-mail: ella.antonio [at] gmail.com Tellus Institute Mr. Felix Dodds Fellow Tel: (1) 347 2073919 E-mail: felix [at] felixdodds.net

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Central European University Mr. Lszl Pintr Professor, Department of Environmental Sciences and Policy Tel: (36) 1 327 3000, ext. 2017 E-mail: lpinter [at] iisd.ca Hankuk University of Foreign Studies Mr. Ekra Miezan Assistant Professor Tel: (82) (0)2 2173 3943 Fax: (82) (0)2 2173 3369 E-mail: ekra [at] hufs.ac.kr Nagoya University Mr. Masao Takano Associate Professor, Graduate School of Environmental Studies Tel: +81-90-4182-7306 E-mail: masao [at] nagoya-u.jp, takanomasao7306 [at] gmail.com National Institute of Advanced Studies Mr. Dilip Ahuja Dean, Academic Affairs, ISRO Professor of S&T Policy Tel: (91) 80 2218 5135 Fax: (91) 80 2218 5028 E-mail: drahuja [at] gmail.com National University of Singapore Mr. Michael Douglass Professor, Asia Research Institute Tel: (65) 6516 5243 Fax: (65) 6779 1428 E-mail: arimike [at] nus.edu.sg SUNY (The State University of New York) Korea Mr. Johng-Ihl Lee Professor, Department of Technology and Society Executive Director, International Center for Innovative Policy and Regional Development Tel: (82) (0)32 626 1314 Fax: (82) (0)32 626 1198 E-mail: anothermile [at] sunykorea.ac.kr Universite du Quebec a Chicoutimi Mr. Jacques Prescott Associate Professor Tel: (1) 819 772 4723 E-mail: jacquesprescott [at] sympatico.ca University of Comsats Mr. Khalid Riaz Professor and Head of Management Sciences Department Tel: (92) 51 90495151, (92) 321 534 2636 E-mail: kriaz100 [at] gmail.com Wageningen University Mr. Arjen Wals Professor and UNESCO Chair of Social Learning and Sustainable Development, Education and Competence Studies Tel: (31) 317 484184 E-mail: arjen.wals [at] wur.nl

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