| 1．Date and Time | October 4, 2012 (Thu.) 18:30～20:00 |
| 2．Venue | Kitakyushu Municipal Gender Equality Center, MOVE |
| 3．Lecturer | Yoshiko Misumi, President, Kitakyushu Institute on Sustainability, and Vice-Representative, Kitakyushu ESD Council Yukiko Oda, Chief Researcher, Kitakyushu Institute on Sustainability, and Vice-Representative, Japan Women’s Watch |
| 4．Participants | 37 |
Twenty years after the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in 1992, Rio+20 (United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development) was held in the same city, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil from June 13 to 22, 2012. The event drew approximately 45,000 participants, including 105 high-level government officials from 191 countries and regions. Of the nine people from civic groups in Kitakyushu who participated in Rio+20, three gave presentations about the conference.
You can download their presentation materials (Japanese only).
- “Rio+20 Seen from Photographs” and “Outline, Outcome Documents and Major Group, Women of Rio+20” Yukiko Oda, Chief Researcher, Kitakyushu Institute on Sustainability, and Vice-Representative, Japan Women’s Watch
- “Rio+20: Gender and Kitakyushu’s Involvement” Yoshiko Misumi, President, Kitakyushu Institute on Sustainability, and Vice-Representative, Kitakyushu ESD Council
- “Rio+20: From the Perspectives of Development Goals and Citizens’ Participation” Masako Ota, Director, Kitakyushu Institute on Sustainability
