Henrik Selin Attends Stakeholder Consultation at the United Nations.

Pardee Faculty Fellow, Prof. Henrik Selin, attended a stakeholder consultation organized by the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) Regional Office North America (RONA), in preparation for the Rio+20 meeting in Brazil in June 2012. Prof. Selin presented on the Pardee Center Task Force on “Governance for a Green Economy” and also moderated a discussion about the institutional framework for sustainable development.

The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future convened a Task Force on “Governance for a Green Economy” in preparation for the forthcoming 2012 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20). The resultant report was presented to the Rio+20 preparatory process as an input into its deliberations and was widely distributed at the UN and other intergovernmental fora. The Task Force is part of the Pardee Research Program, Global Governance for Sustainable Development. For more information on the Task Force meeting, see here.

Download the Task Force Report here.

Henrik Selin is Associate Professor in the Department of International Relations at Boston University, Faculty Fellow at the Pardee Center, and Visiting Scholar at the Global Development and Environment Institute at Tufts University.