The UN General Assembly (UNGA) decided in 2009, on the 24th December to organize the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development hold in Rio de Janeiro in 2012. The Conference is so called RIO+20 to reaffirm the commitment made in the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development hold in Rio in 1992. To keep pace with global conference, the NCSD chairman decided in its 24th Council meeting to assign NCSD secretariat to arrange preparatory works for Government representatives of the Executive Yuan in participating in RIO+20. This project has completed two English brochures named as “Institutional Framework and Achievement on Sustainable Development in Taiwan” and “Green Economy Achievement in Taiwan”, as well as an interactive English VCD to promote Taiwan Achievement. Besides, the “Pre-RIO+20 Conference” was hold in April 24th to collect opinions from all stakeholders related to RIO+20 participation. In addition, the project assisted in accumulating conference information, compiling travel manual, and setting up an information-exchange platform in Facebook to assist in preparatory works. There were three assistants assigned to support Government representatives during their participation in RIO+20, such as holding meetings, assembling materials and participating in activities. After RIO+20, the “Post-RIO+20 conference” has hold to outreach the public with great amount of outcomes brought by representatives from government, NGOs and Youth. The project has proposed recommendation with regard to “Participation in International Conference” and “RIO+20 Follow-up” for EPA future references. In order to enhance sustainable development in Taiwan by fulfilling commitments concluded in the RIO+20 outcome documents-“The Future We Want”, the project has revised “National Sustainable Development Policy Guideline”, “National Sustainable Action Plan”, and “National Sustainable Development Indicator System”, and proposing suggestions according to an expert meeting. Those suggestions can be taken as references for EPA and NCSD to bring out programs on Sustainable Development in the future.

United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (RIO+20), The Future we want, institutional framework on Sustainable Development