The Changes we Need for the Future we Want (CIDSE recommendations for the UN rio+20 Conference)

CIDSE recommendations for the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20), 20-22 June 2012. (also available in ES - FR - IT - PT). CIDSE says that to achieve real lasting change and to eradicate poverty, alternatives to Gross Domestic Product (GDP) measurement which include both social and non-material aspects of well-being are urgently required. The paper calls for a greater emphasis on ?going local?, promotes the concept of ?having enough?, and discusses the role of the ?green economy?, a concept which fails to address structural problems such as overall levels of resource consumption based on the pursuit of growth. It also makes recommendations for the contents and process of a sustainable development framework which should tackle interlinked global challenges like poverty eradication, sustainability, climate change and economic inequalities.