The Peoples Summit is being organized by 150 organizations, entities and social movements from various countries, and is scheduled to take place in parallel to the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD, or Rio+20). The objective of the Summit is to request governments to give political power to the Conference, in order to avoid the need for a “Rio+40” and the holding of conferences that have limited implementation power.  

dates: 18-23 June 2012   location: Rio de Janeiro (Rio de Janeiro), Brazil   www: http://rio20.net/en/iniciativas/call-for-participation-for-the-peoples-summit-for-sustainable-development