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One of a series of consultation meetings being held in 2013, the Global Consultation on Sustainable Transport was organized around the Regional EST Forum in Asia to engage minis...
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| Education | 328 |
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| Green economy i... | 304 |
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| Health and popu... | 154 |
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Statistics
| Member States | 417 | |
| UN & IGOs | 154 | |
| Major Groups | 807 | |
| Total | 1382 |
Top initiatives in USD
| Commitment to Sustainable Transport | $175,000 Million |
| Scaling up access to energy and renewables in Africa | $100,000 Million |
| United States will scale up efforts and achieve significant results in maternal and child health and family planning | $63,000 Million |
| Total of all initiatives | $636,982 Million |
Sustainable development in action
The Rio+20 Conference was an action-oriented conference focusing on implementation of sustainable development. Member States, the United Nations system, and Major Groups and other stakeholders are together leading the way forward to the Future We Want.
Rio +20 as well as earlier sustainable development conferences have all emphasized the importance of action-oriented voluntary initiatives to complement government-led action in realizing sustainable development. [Read more]
To register a new voluntary commitment, partnership or green economy initiatives, kindly click here.
Voluntary initiatives timeline
Click on the years to see listing of voluntary initiatives for that year
2012
- ITM,A commits to promoting women and children's health
- +1 Social Step
- 10 GREEN GROWTH CHOICES FOR WATER RESOURCES IN THE MENA REGION
- A Youth Delegation's Commitment to Mission Leading Up to and During the Earth Summit
- Access to sustainable electrification: Bridging the financial and entrepreneurial gap & Boosting the Clean Development Mechanism
- Appraisal of a decade of Local Sustainability in the Basque Country 2000-2010
- Assessement of country energy and climate policies
- Building Global Capacity on using the Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB) for Water and Wetlands for Policy and Decision-making
- Cement Sustainability Initiative, The
- CLAN (Caring & Living as Neighbours) commits to ongoing advocacy efforts and grassroots community development action on behalf of children and adolescents
- Communicate
- Continuously strive to improve safety and health in the workplace
- Defense and engagement in public policy through Parliamentary Agenda and EBDRs
- Determining the Business Value of Ecosystem Services in Brazil
- Dhaka Bus-Rapid-Transit
- Eco-efficiency improvement
- Energy and Environment Partnership with Central America (EEP)
- Environmental sustainability and Social Development
- Farmers' Empowerment Project
- Financing Energy Efficiency Projects
- Foster professional knowledge
- Global Alliance to Prevent Prematurity and Stillbirth commits to develop and uphold a Code of Conduct that puts forth standards of excellence for all repositories to be upheld in partnership with countries where repositories are being established
- Global Fund for Women commits $2 million over the next 2 years towards advancing health and sexual and reproductive rights in over 40 countries in the Americas, Asia and Oceania, Middle East, North Africa, and Sub-Saharan Africa.
- Global Island Partnership (GLISPA)
- Global Village Energy Partnership, The
- Green ICT Application Challenge & Hackathon
- Guidelines for Environmental Sustainability for the ICT Sector
- Guinea commits to establish a budget line for reproductive health commodities and to secure 10 life-saving essential medications in at least 36 facilities providing basic obstetric care and 9 structures with comprehensive obstetric care by 2012
- Health Check up and Medical Camp for families of Miners
- HP's commits to continue applying the skills of its people (more than 320,000), its technology assets, and its customer and stakeholder partnerships to develop innovative solutions that address the root causes of critical global challenges such as infant
- Improve energy efficiency through all operations
- Increase and promote renewable energy generation
- Increase the yield of drinking water networks
- Indonesia's Green Economy Corridor Initiative
- Initiatives of Ministry of the Environment of Japan
- International Coral Reef Action Network (ICRAN)
- Investment in research and innovation to help enable the transition to a sustainable future
- Israel supports the Global Strategy for Women's and Children's Health
- ITC Ethical Fashion Initiative, Instituto-e, Carmina Campus network for product development with the Associacao Nacional Dos Carroceiros E Catadores de Materiais Reciclaveis (ANCAT) Brazil and their large network of micrproducers.
- ITU-UNESCO/IOC-WMO Joint Task Force to investigate the potential of using submarine telecommunications cables for ocean and climate monitoring and disaster warning
- ITU-UNU-UNEP-StEP Initiative-CEDARE Joint Survey on E-Waste
- Joint Commitment for Climate Transparency and Disclosure
- La Trobe University
- Latin American Network on Short Life Climate Pollutants
- Launch Brazilian female entrepreneurs to international market
- Launch Global Green Inclusive Innovation Summit (G2i2 Summit)
- London Olympics 2012: Planning a sustainable Olympic Games
- Market Facilitation Partnership for Concentrating Solar Power Technologies
- MDB Joint statement for Rio+20
- Mediterranean Renewable Energy Program (MEDREP)
- Medsin Aberdeen commits to raise awareness among the constituency of medical students at the University of Aberdeen of the Global Strategy for Women's and Children's Health
- Minimum Agenda for Sustainability ABRAPS
- National programs and international initiatives of Turkmenistan to meet sustainable development goals on regional and international arena
- New Mobility Initiative (Mobility 2.0)
- Novartis Institute for Tropical Diseases (NITD)
- Optimise the waste recovery and recycling rate
- Ortigas Greenways
- P&G 2012 Sustainability Goals
- Partnership for Principle 10
- Partnership for the Launch of the Sustainable Tourism Stewardship Council
- Partnership on Sustainable, Low Carbon Transport
- Planting seeds of action
- Pleading to give African soils the right place in the "the future we want"
- POGO-IOC-SCOR Initiative for Intelligent Use and Management of the Oceans
- Programme of South-South Cooperation for Sustainable Development Benin, Bhutan and Costa Rica
- Promoting sustainability through lthe UK's local decision making processes
- Protecting Natural Infrastructure through E-Waste Stewardship
- Raising Small Farmer Income in the Developing World: New Business Models for Sustainable Trading Relationships
- Reduce the greenhouse gas emissions (GHG)
- Reduction in Fossil Fuel Use
- Reduction in water usage
- Refill not Landfill
- Rio +20. Green economy: the experiences of the Italian Civil Society
- Sao Tome and Principe commits to increase the percentage of the general budget for health from 10% to 15% in 2012
- Sesame Workshop's commitment to Every Woman Every Child is the expansion of our health-related work in Latin America, Africa and Asia in 2011-2012
- SME-CSR Initiative: Global Compact Network Spain effort towards the promotion of CSR among a total of 1000 SMEs
- Socially Responsible Investing Platform
- Statement of Commitments of the Global Environment Facility (GEF) for the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20)
- Support diversity
- Sustainability Dashboard
- Sustainability Promotion
- Sustainable Development Knowledge Partnership
- Sustainable Transport Award - Buenos Aires
- Sustainable Transport Award - Cape Town
- Sustainable Transport Award - Medellin
- Sustainable Transport Award - San Francisco
- Sustaining resilience - development in crisis
- Sweden strongly commits to Women’s and Children’s health
- The Amazon's Juma Reserve; the Sustainable Development of Fairfield by Marriott Hotels in Brazil
- The Clean Energy Legislative Package
- The Electricity Governance Initiative
- The Inter-Parliamentary Union is mobilizing support for the Global Strategy for Women's and Children's Health within the world parliamentary community
- The Royal Medical Society (RMS) commits to raise awareness among our members of medical students at the University of Edinburgh
- The SEED Initiative: Supporting Entrepreneurs for Sustainable Development
- The SustainAGRO Initiative
- U.S. Clean Energy Initiative (CEI)
- UIC Declaration on Sustainable Mobility
- UN Women: Contributing to women's empowerment through the promotion of women-friendly, green technologies in Ethiopia
- UN Women: RURAL WOMEN LIGHT UP AFRICA
- Universidad Casa Grande
- UNTGG China Gender Facility administered by UN Women China: Adopting a Participatory Gender-Integrated Approach (PGIA) for Climate Change Adaptation Actions to Enhance Biodiversity Conservation in Poyang Lake (PYL) Region, China
- UNTGG China Gender Facility administered by UN Women China: Enhancing Women's Role in Wildlife Protection and Promoting Gender Equality in Zhuhai, Guangdong Province, China
- UNTGG China Gender Facility administered by UN Women China: Legal Advocacy for the Implementation of Gender-Sensitive Regulations Addressing Climate Change/ Disaster Risk Reduction (CC/DRR)
- VHI - Africa Technical Research Centre (VHI-ATRC)
- Voluntary expertise for projects and organisations in the field of sustainable development
- Water and Sanitation for the Urban Poor (WSUP)
- Water Management Commitment
- WaterHealth's commitment to Every Woman Every Child is the expansion of WaterHealth programs to the Global Strategy's priority countries of Bangladesh, Nigeria and Liberia in 2011-2012
- Women leadership in water & sanitation
- Zimbabwe will increase health spending to 15% of the health budget or $20 per capita and establish a maternal, newborn and child survival fund by 2011