Advocacy & Position Papers

Climate change

• Subnational Governments: Key Actors in Climate Change Action - A Contribution towards COP 17/CMP 7
• Subnational Governments at the Forefront of Climate Action
• Regions: Conscientious and influential partners in climate action
• Regions on the move: Roadmap to Copenhagen

Sustainable development

Documents relevant to sustainable development

• Subnational Governments: Key Actors in the Transition of a Green Economy - nrg4SD Advocacy Paper, March 2011
• Subnational Governments: Key Actors in Sustainable Consumption and Production - nrg4SD Advocacy Paper, April 2011
• nrg4SD's contribution to the consultation on the UN Global Sustainability Panel GSP, March 2011
• nrg4SD’s contribution to the works of the UN Global Sustainability Panel GSP, November 2011

Documents relevant to Rio +20

• nrg4SD preparatory and advocacy documents for Rio +20
• nrg4SD at Rio +20
• Joint messages of Local and Sub-national Governments
• The Declaration of Rio de Janeiro June 2012 - Federated States and Regional Governments Committed to a New Paradigm for Sustainable Development and Poverty Eradication – EN - ES  - adopted at the World Summit of Federated States and Regions co-organised by the State of Rio, nrg4SD, The Climate Group and ORU-FOGAR, 19 June 2012.
• Local Authorities Major Group interventions - coming soon
• Comment - 'Eight joint recommendations of local and subnational governments' by the Local Authorities Major Group - Outreach 16 June 2012
• Comment - 'A new recipe for multi-level governance and leadership for future sustainable development' by Maruxa Cardama - 27 January 2012
• Contribution to the initial discussions on the Zero Draft - 25 January 2012
• nrg4SD contribtuion to the UN compilation document for the Zero draft of Rio +20, 1 November 2011 - summary of nrg4SD's contribution available here
• Contribution by Catalonia to the Rio +20 draft zero document - 1 November 2011 - EN version – CAT version
• Contribution by São Paulo to the Rio +20 draft zero document - 1 November 2011 -  EN version
• Contribution by the Environmental Commissioners of Canada and Quebec to the Rio +20 draft zero document - 1 November 2011 -  EN version