- Date submitted: 1 Nov 2011 - Stakeholder type: Member State -
Name: Australia - Submission Document: Download Full
SubmissionAustralia?s Submission to the Rio+20 Compilation
Document Introduction The United Nations Conference on
Sustainable Development (Rio+20) is a crucial opportunity to
renew political commitment to sustainable development, and to
set the agenda for the next twenty years. This opportunity comes
at a time when human activity is pushing ecosystems towards the
limits of what they can sustainably bear - against what some
scientists have called ?planetary boundaries? in areas such as
climate change, biodiversity loss, stratospheric ozone
depletion, chemical pollution, ocean acidification, and
depletion of fresh water reserves. At the same time, as the
world attempts to improve social and economic conditions across
developed and developing countries, the world has emerged from a
Global Financial Crisis to face, yet again, the prospect of a
waning global economy. In order to meet these challenge