The newsletter identifies WEDO's contributions to the UNCSD preparatory process as part of the Women's Major Group Rio+20 Steering Committee, and indicates it is working to identify a green economy's potential impacts on social development and women, and the necessary gender equality mechanisms of an institutional framework for sustainable development.
17 May 2011: The Spring 2011 issue of the newsletter of the Women’s Environment and Development Organization (WEDO) highlights the preparatory process for the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD, or Rio+20) and WEDO’s activities related to this process.
The Newsletter notes that, as part of the Women’s Major Group Rio+20 Steering Committee, WEDO is working with women’s groups to ensure attention is paid to women’s leadership, full participation, equality and benefit-sharing.
It also notes that many issues remain contentious, such as the concept of a green economy, and that WEDO is working to understand how women relate to a green economy, stressing that it is careful about supporting a concept that may affect negatively the social pillar of sustainable development. On governance, the newsletter notes that WEDO is exploring mechanisms to ensure gender equality in a future institutional framework. [Publication: WEDO Newsletter, Spring 2011]