- Date submitted: 1 Nov 2011 - Stakeholder type: Major Group -
Name: Planetary Boundaries Initiative - Submission Document:
Download UN Conference on Sustainable Development, Rio de
Janeiro, 4 ? 6 June 2012 Input for Compilation Document
Submission by the Planetary Boundaries Initiative This
submission is made on behalf of the newly-formed Planetary
Boundaries Initiative, which includes amongst its aims the
promotion of a Declaration on Planetary Boundaries. We submit
that States at the Rio Conference should adopt a Declaration on
Planetary Boundaries, along the lines of the draft Declaration
which is set out at the end of this submission. If this is not
possible, then the outcome document should: ? prominently
reflect its Principles; ? contain a commitment by States to
develop a legal instrument which would reflect its Principles;
and ? pending development of such an instrument, contain a
commitment to confer the function of promoting and developing
the Principles, and development of such an instrument, on a