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Rio+20 Regional Workshop for Asia and the Pacific

The Regional Workshop for Asia and the Pacific, 16-18 April 2011, will bring together natural scientists, social scientists and engineers from across the region, along with high level policy-makers and representatives of other stakeholder groups. The workshop is part of the preparatory process for the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20) that will take place in 2012, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Rio+20 Regional Workshop for Asia and the Pacific

This meeting is being organized as a contribution to the preparatory process of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20) that will take place in 2012, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The International Council for Science, aware of the importance of providing the independent point of view of Science and Technology for the intergovernmental process, has taken the initiative to organize, together with UNESCO, four regional workshops, bringing together prestigious scientists and engineers of each region to discuss the main themes of UNCSD 2012 from the point of view of the scientific and technological community, and to prepare joint positions and concerted input into the intergovernmental Rio+20 Regional Preparatory Meetings.

The workshop will focus on the Rio+20 themes of Green Economy in the Context of Poverty Eradication and Sustainable Development, and Institutional Framework for Sustainable Development.

The ICSU-UNESCO Rio+20 Regional Workshop for Asia and the Pacific is supported by the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation, Malaysia and the Academy of Sciences Malaysia.

For further information, please see the workshop brochure.

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