Annual report ANPED 2012

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TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. INTRODUCTION .......................................................................... 4

2. RIO+20 ........................................................................................ 5

3. MAIN PROJECTS & PARTNERSHIPS ............................................ 10

Þ Environmental Justice Organisations, Liabilities and Trade (EJOLT) Project ........................................................... 11

Þ SPREAD Sustainable Lifestyles 2050 Project ...................... 16

Þ Partnerships ANPED ........................................................... 20

4. COMMUNICATION ..................................................................... 21

5. OTHER ACTIVITIES ..................................................................... 22

6. SECRETARIAT and MEMBERS .................................................... 23

7. FINANCIAL OVERVIEW ............................................................... 26

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The Annual Report 2012 is published by ANPED ivzw. The content of this report is not legally binding.

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1. INTRODUCTION For ANPED, the year 2012 made history as the RIO+20 year, a once-in-a-decade conference. Being the official organising partner for the Major Group of NGOs, this conference absorbed lots of our energy, gave us an important task in the global NGO community and gave us an opportu-nity to set the tone of the debates. Although we, as NGO-community, were not happy with the RIO+20 outcome “The future we want”, we still see opportunities for the coming years to fight for social equity and environmental justice worldwide. Partly this will be done by setting this agenda on the international level (for instance related to the Sustainable Development Goals) and at the European level. And partly we’ll show that another world is possible, together with our members on national and local levels.

ANPED is also active in two FP7 projects: SPREAD and EJOLT. It was the last year for SPREAD, where ANPED was responsible for writing the EU-Roadmap Sustainable Lifestyles 2050 and for organising the final conference. For EJOLT we are responsible for the dissemination and com-munication, with lots of publications, blogs and other materials as result. The www.ejolt.org website will give you all the insights of the current injustice around the world and how local EJOs (Environmental Justice Organisations) deal with this. These projects are an integral part of building our network and the evidence-based approach of our advocacy work.

Furthermore we inform you how to maintain updated on all kind of news and background in-formation on the strong sustainability issues, via our websites and social media channels.

Finally, we give an overview of the expenses we have made and the incomes we have incurred. The year ended with a positive saldo, which together with all the interesting, useful and inspiring work we did gave the ANPED staff also a positive feeling!

I hope you enjoy reading this report and that we can count on you for idea’s, further participa-tion and support.

Leida RijnhoutExecutive Director

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2. RIO+20 Our policy agenda for 2012 can be summed up in one word: Rio+20. In June, the whole ANPED secretariat descended on Rio with a double mission. The most time-consuming was to act as one of the three Organising Partners for the Major Group of NGOs, appointed by the UN, to facilitate the participation of more than 11.000 people from civil society. They came from all corners of the world to this once-in-a-decade conference. The second was to act as ANPED and advocate our core values and principles on strong sustainability, focusing on a Green and Fair Economy. Our policy work in 2012 can be divided into Pre-Rio+20, Rio+20 and Post-Rio+20.

Þ Pre-Rio+20

Major groups Organising Partners (MG Ops) - especially those of the by far biggest group of NGOs - have a long way to go to bring the procedural context of UN meetings to their constituencies. Our mission is to maximise their opportunities for interaction in a constructive and meaningful way. For the Rio+20 process, the situation was even more complex and difficult compared to CSD meetings, as many of the NGOs that participated were not involved in CSD processes before. Facilitation and coordination of this giant group was far from obvious.

PODDO funds (Belgian Federal Administration of Sustainable Development ) covered a big part of the many tasks: Coordinating and facilitating policy positions, logistical information on registration, dissemina-tion and publication. (Rio+20 and UNEP process). As ANPED, we made a position paper summing up what ANPED expected from Rio+20. As ANPEDs role of being the secretariat of the SDIN group (= all the OPs for the NGOs), we have been managing the Rio+20 mailing list and interactive plat-forms (Rio+20NGO Facebook group, RIOPLUS20 NING page and NGORIOPLUS20 WIKISPACE) that we created for the coordination of the development of NGO Major Group statements and interventions. Via the mailing list, for all NGOs, we disseminated all logistical information and other issues of importance. On the communication front we made and maintained websites, social media and a special e-newsletters for Rio+20 only. For the latter we joined forces with the two other NGO Organising Partners to make a monthly letter called ‘Own the Edge’.

1. ANPED, EEB, CIDSE, CEEweb and the EESC organised a Sustainable Development stake-holders Conference aiming to develop concrete action plans focusing on: a green economy in the context of sustainable development and poverty eradication and the institutional framework for sustainable development. We gathered over a hundred change-makers in Europe for a day of discussion on Rio+20 and Innovative Thinking towards Fair Natural Resources Sharing. You can still see some presentations and a video on our website.

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - June 2012

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2. Training and orientation workshops for Rio+20 + coordination in Brussels with European networks.

In Europe, ANPED brought together European networks for initiating common state-ments. We did that in the UN DPI annual meeting in June 2012 in Bonn, where civil society drafted a position towards Rio+20. That position was also input for the dec-laration of the Governing Council of UNEP. With other Brussels Based Networks we also sent a letter to the EU Environment ministers’ Council. This network will also co-operate together in future work on Rio+20, for example on the work on the Post 2015 MDG agenda and the development of the SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals). In New York, ANPED and Stakeholder Forum organised a training session for the major groups. During the period of negotiations, ANPED was the only Northern NGO invited for a special meeting with the group of G77. This comes in recognition of ANPED’s close cooperation with Southern civil society. During ‘Informal-Informal’ negotiations on the Zero Draft ANPED actively engaged in many initiatives for the fulfillment of its mission and role as organizing partner (OP) for the major group (MG) of NGOs in the UN CSD, Rio+20 process. As an organization representing a NGOs network, ANPED pro-actively promoted the agenda on environmental justice and systemic change for the Economy by jointly organizing a side event (22th of March), together with Danish 92 and the Centre for Environment and Development (Sri Lanka), entitled: “Can the Green Economy Achieve Equitable Transformation and Sustainable Development?” Additionally ANPED also organized and chaired meetings between all UN CSD major groups and the EU delegation to the UN and their member states, during the week of negotiations, an initiative that was highly appreciated by all other MG OPs and EU.

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Þ In Rio+20

In Rio, our role as Organising Partner put us centre stage in the worldwide NGO community. At RioCentro we had our own office, where we could work and support all 11.000 people from NGOs present there. They flooded our office on an almost constant basis. Every day we lead the NGO meeting to sort all questions out. The OPs divided some of the tasks like arranging permits to attend meetings, taking care of the daily meeting with the press and coordinating the drafting group for the NGO statements. ANPED took the lead in this last role, on top of coordinating the communication channels used by the NGO community: the mailinglist, a facebook group, a ning page and a wikispace to work on documents.

Above all of that, ANPED also had a role to play as ANPED, not as OP. We produced articles expressing our own views on a daily basis. We wrote for the daily magazine from all nine major groups (Outreach) - which was distributed at the conference - and for various media in Belgium. We also helped to distribute Outreach and wrote a media release at the end. Television in-terviews for Brazilian and other television station were given at a successful demonstration event where ANPED joined forces with youth organisations to show negotiators that they were crossing our red lines. Before and during that action ANPED also distributed red bracelets with the simple message: ‘social and environmental justice’ - carried by hundreds of people during the conference. We distributed our “Principles for a Fair and Green Economy” – the result of a policy process we pursued in 2011 and which has been elaborated in our previous annual report.

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1. The Mother Earth Principle2. The Planetary Boundaries Principle3. The Dignity Principle4. The Justice Principle5. The Precautionary Principle6. The Resilience Principle7. The Responsibility Principle

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We made sure “The Seven Principles” was presented in the on-line dialogues organised by the Brazilian hosts. This idea was very successful and it reached the “top 10” of best proposals. ANPED was also very active in the process of the “Peoples Sustainability Treaties”, an initiative from several Southern NGO-networks. ANPED was part of the steering committee and writer of two of the 14 treaties: 1) on Sustainable Consumption and Production and 2) on Sustainable Economies. For all info on this: please see: www.sustainabilitytreaties.org/

ANPED launched an e-petition ‘The future we DON’T want’ – as a reaction to a ‘clean’ text proposal by the Brazilian hosts after the prepcom ended. The petition went viral with over a 1000 signatures in less than 24 hours (and 2291 in total) and hundreds of organizations putting their name under it. The petition was mentioned in the NGO statement at the opening plenary of the Rio+20 summit in front of Heads of State and on several international media such as Al Jazeera and The Guardian.

We organized also two side events at the official Summit to promote and discuss our current FP7 projects (DG Research EC): EJOLT and SPREAD.

Summing up, while Rio+20 was a huge amount of work - for which very little funds were made available - it has delivered great visibility and credibility of our work as ANPED. Before, during and after the Summit we were invited in several hearings, workshops, conferences organised by third partners where ANPED was invited to be keynote speaker and/or panellist. (Brussels, Berlin, Bilbao, Barcelona, Kiev, Zagreb, Paris, The Hague, ...)

Þ Post Rio+20

After our initial media release on the last day of the summit and after the dust had settled a bit, we made a longer reflection on what actually happened there in Rio, in english and spanish.

We are also keeping an eye on the reflection on Rio that the EU is making, providing input to their public consultation process.

As the UN Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD) , as such, may “disappear” into a new structure, this means that the guidelines for major group/ civil society involvement will also need to be reviewed and reconfirmed. ANPED is following and commenting on the exchange of ideas and fundamental principles for the major group involvement.

The post Rio+20 policy dialogues continue in 2013, for example with stakeholdermeetings on the SDGs and the post 2015 agenda.

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3. MAIN PROJECTS & PARTNERSHIPSANPED’s advocacy towards policy makers around the world is based on the concept of Strong Sustainability and Justice. To make this advocacy a success, we take great care in assuring a solid and evidence based (scientific) foundation for our policy views. Research on sustainability is a growing sector in the scientific community and ANPED plays an important role in the interface between research & development, activism and policymakers. ANPED has access to commu-nity-based organisations and other institutions that have access to the basic data that science needs to build its theories and models on. By helping scientists find access to these realities on the ground, we are realizing bottom-up science, based on real needs, as opposed to ivory tower science. On the other hand, we are also well placed and inter connected to bring outcomes of work done by activists and researchers to the attention of policymakers in Brussels and beyond.

During 2012, ANPED continued to invest a lot of time in 2 major scientific projects supporting the science-backed approach of our work. ANPED has remained its link with scientific institutions through the same two projects that started in 2011 and continued in 2012:

We have two key roles in the four-year long ‘EJOLT’ program, which is working with 74 people in 18 nations to identify issues around environmental justice. ANPED is managing the dissemina-tion of this big project and is also active on the policy side. In 2012 this project has built a huge network of science-backed environmentalists producing a variety of resources that are often very useful to ANPED and its members. In 2012, we started to use outcomes of the project to push governments and companies into action. We have also build up a community of activists and scientists working on sustainability and justice through a well-visited website, Facebook page and twitter account.

We have also worked further on and concluded the two-year long SPREAD project, another EU - Science in Society - project where research and civil society come together, more specif-ically in that case on building future scenarios for sustainable lifestyles. ANPED edited the EU Roadmap for Sustainable Lifestyles 2050, and organised the closing conference in Brussels. And although the project has now ended, we laid the foundations for further collaboration with the participating research and civil society partners of the project.

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Environmental Justice Organisations, Liabilities and Trade (EJOLT) Project

Environmental Justice Organisations, Liabilities and Trade (EJOLT) kicked-off in April 2011 (FP7 SIS-2011-1). From 2011 to 2015, this project brings science and society together to catalogue ecological distribution conflicts and environmental injustices. The project supports the work of Environmental Justice Organisations uniting scientists, activists, think-tanks, policy-makers from the fields of environmental law, environmental health, political ecology and ecological economics to talk about issues related to Ecological Distribution. Among the many resources it will create interactive maps of environmental injustice that will be available online.

ANPED’s main responsibilities in this project are the communication about EJOLT to the outside world and the policy work. In 2012, we have used the EJOLT website that we build in 2011 to publish a continuous stream of information on environmental justice in general and EJOLT proj-ect outcomes in particular. We edit and write some 10 blogs a month and disseminated the first stream of EJOLT resources through a big resource library on our EJOLT website.

We also continued to work below radar on the interactive mapping platform that we will launch in 2013. In 2012 we really boosted the two main social media of EJOLT (twitter and facebook) to create a global community around the topic of environmental justice - fuelled by the ongoing collaboration between the 74 scientists and activists involved in EJOLT, the facebook page have 250 “friends” and approx. 800 followers on twitter . In 2012, we also forged coalitions with NGOs outside EJOLT that use our outcomes in their specialised advocacy work with Members of European parliament (MEPs). We also started with a monthly newsletter on EJOLT, to which you can subscribe.

On the website of EJOLT you can find Reports, briefings, factsheets, video’s, podcasts and blogs. We also have a large glossary full of terms in the field of ecological economics and en-vironmental justice.

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EJOLT Report 1: Industrial waste conflicts around the world. Case studies from India and Bulgaria: shipbreaking and incineration

This report deals with how struggles for environmental justice contribute to the environmental sustainability of the economy. We attached policy recommendations to this report, found a will-ing and able advocacy group in Brussels that has this issue as its core reason to exist and we now work with them on bringing the reports and recommendations to policymakers in Europe. Follow-up blogs are published on www.ejolt.org.

Ejolt report 2: The CDM Cannot Deliver the Money to Africa. Why the carbon trading gamble won’t save the planet from cli-mate change, and how African civil society is resisting

At a time the carbon markets face a profound crisis, this report provides critical policy analysis and case documentation about the role of the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) in Africa. Instead of providing an appropriate flow of climate finance for pro-jects related to greenhouse gas mitigation, the CDM has benefited large corporations (both South and North) and the governments they influence and often control.

Ejolt Report 3: An overview of industrial tree plantations in the global South. Conflicts, trends and resistance struggles

This report looks forward to building a movement – part of the huge global majority of the dispossessed, disenfranchised and unjustly repressed – that will be better equipped to achieve the goal of putting an end to the irrational policies that promote the further expansion of industrial tree plantations. The report builds on in-depth case studies from Brazil, Mozambique and Indonesia and deals with issues such as the increasing resistance and con-flicts around land, violence, criminalization and cooptation plus a weakening of environmental legislation.

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Ejolt Report 4: Legal avenues for EJOs to claim environmental liability

This paper appraises the different national and international (judi-cial and non-judicial) fora that are available to hold multinational corporations (MNCs) accountable. On the basis of recent judi-cial developments concerning civil liability claims by victims of the operations of MNCs in various countries, it explores the cir-cumstances under which national, transnational and international litigation, either by itself or in interaction with each other, have proven most effective in providing redress. The report end with a handy list of 17 recommendation for civil society organisators wishing to pursue justice.

Ejolt Report 5: Issues in the economics of ecosystems and bio-diversity

Our discussion rests on instances showing the analytical implica-tions of three main socio-economic meanings of biodiversity loss: a) the loss of natural capital, b) the loss of ecosystems functions, c) the loss of cultural values and human rights to livelihood. We review several approaches to include economic considerations in biodiversity conservation. We show cases where monetary val-uation is relevant and other cases where it is controversial and even counterproductive, as it undermines the objectives of con-servation.

Ejolt Report 7: Mining conflicts around the world. Common grounds from an Environmental Justice perspective

This report aims at exploring contemporary mining conflicts in the context of the sustainable development and environmental justice movement. This is done based on 24 real case studies from 18 different countries. All of these cases are directly chosen and reported, either in factsheet or in-depth study format, by EJOs, as part of a knowledge sharing activity well-established in EJOLT between EJOs and the academic community. Despite its limita-tions, compiling such a diverse set of mining conflicts that builds on EJO knowledge promotes mutual learning and collaboration among stakeholders, EJOs and academia, which is one of the key objectives of EJOLT.

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Partner organisatonsUAB – Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona and its Institute for Environmental Science and Technology (ICTAUAB), is one of the top research centers on envi-ronmental studies in Spain. ICTA-UAB coordinates EJOLT.

Acción Ecológica – OCMAL / Ecuador FIOCRUZ – Fundação Oswaldo Cruz / Brazil FOCUS

ANPED - Northern Alliance for Sustainability GRAIN – Genetic Resources Action International / Spain

Association for Sustainable Development / Slovenia IFF – Interdisziplinäre Forschung und Fortbildung / Austria

BOG – Bogazici University / Turkey JNU – Jawaharlal Nehru University / India

Business and Human Rights / UK Lund University / Sweden

CCS – Centre for Civil Society / South Africa Nature Kenya / Kenya

CDCA – Centro Documentazione Conflitti Ambientali / Italy REEDS – International Centre for Research in Ecological Economics, Eco-Innovation and Tool Development for Sustainability – France

CFJ – Citizens For Justice / Malawi SERI – Sustainable Europe Research Institute / Germany

CRIIRAD – Commission de Recherche et d’Information Indépendantes sur la RADioactivité/ France URV – Universitat Rovira i Virgili / Spain

ELN – Earthlife Namibia / Namibia WRM – World Rainforest Movement /Uruguay

ERA – Environmental Rights Action / Nigeria Za Zemiata / Bulgaria

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The people behind the EJOLT project:

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SPREAD Sustainable Lifestyles 2050 Project

ANPED was partner in the two-years SPREAD program (2011-2012), financed by the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7 SSH-2010-4). This program represented an European social platform that addressed the challenge of reducing current levels of energy, transport and resource use while at the same time improving health and quality of life of an ageing European society.

What made this social platform project unique is that it created scenarios and roadmaps for sustainable lifestyles in 2050, focusing on sustainable living, moving, consuming and healthy life. We have worked with all partners and experts through regular meetings and through a people’s forum and online community aimed at hosting an ongoing dialogue open to the public.

This program aimed with hope, optimism, expertise, skills & creativity to collaboratively build an easy accessible vision and concrete ideas for more sustainable ways of living that inspire and trigger action in the fields of practice, policy and research. With interactive multi-stakeholder dialogues, we brought together people from civil society organisations, business, research and policy to collaborate on a better understanding of how to enable more sustainable lifestyles. Our work was realised through a number of thematic and cross-cutting working groups and conferences. The working groups were aligned with four focus areas: sustainable moving, sus-tainable living, sustainable consuming and sustainable society.

In November 2012, ANPED in collaboration with its project partners, organised a two – days final conference in Brussels where all the outputs of the project were presented to a broader audience counting around 250 participants.Especially the EU Sustainable Lifestyles Roadmap and Action Plan 2050 written by ANPED guid-ed through the conference. This Roadmap with concrete policy recommendations was very welcomed :

“The Sustainable Lifestyles Roadmap takes existing European Roadmaps a step further.The SPREAD project’s recommendations should be made official and implemented.”

Gunilla Blomquist Deputy Director

Swedish Ministry of the Environment

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Below are all the project outputs presented at the final conference:

EU Sustainable Lifestyles Roadmap and Action Plan 2050

The roadmap uses the various outputs of the SPREAD project and extensive stakeholder input from 13 workshops to propose ac-tions that will get us on track to more sustainable living in Europe in this decade - from social innovation, products, service and busi-ness model innovation, skills for jobs of the future, policy and governance recommendations. The document outlines the action strategies and opportunity spaces for policy makers towards more Sustainable lifestyles. Download the roadmap.

Policy Brief presenting the Roadmap for Sustainable Lifestyles in 2050

The policy brief gives easy access to the content of the EU Sustainable Lifestyles Roadmap and Action Plan 2050 for policy makers. It demonstrates pathways to reach sustainable lifestyles in 2050 and gives recommendations on the role of policy in this process. Download the policy brief.

Final Research Agenda

The research agenda presents the most important topics for future research on sustainable lifestyles and the related methodologies. It aims to support EU research policy makers in the formulation of future research programmes that address societal challenges to sustainable lifestyles and that support the EU 2020 Strategy. In ad-dition, the research agenda provides a clear overview of themes and topics that can be concretely taken up for further research. Download the research agenda.

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Scenarios for Sustainable Lifestyles 2050: From Global Champions to Local Loops

The nicely visualised scenarios highlight four differ-ent options of more sustainable future ways of living in 2050. They provide a starting point for identifying opportunity spaces for the development of creative strategies to not only mainstream current sustaina-ble practices but also to develop new solutions for more sustainable living societies. Download the re-port.

Short Movies on Promising Practices and the Scenarios

A set of short movies is presented different promising practices which already show today how sustainable lifestyles can be enabled. The four scenarios of differ-ent societies where sustainable living is the norm are brought to live in four other short movies. Watch the short movies.

iFuture – The Diversity of Sustainable Lifestyles

The document outlines the outcomes of the people’s forum which took place in Finland, Spain, Hungary, Germany and online with participants from all over Europe. The report looks at the diversity of people’s lifestyles, both now and in the era of sustainable life-styles. It presents an alternative view; a view that takes a look at the actual material footprints of people from several European countries and the lives behind the footprints. It asks what exactly will change and what is the quality of that change. Download the re-port.

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European Lifestyles: The Future Issue

The Future Issue is your guide redefining the good life and enabling the future you want. The magazine is summarizing all outcomes of the SPREAD Sustainable Lifestyles 2050 project. The issue takes you on a journey to the future and seeks to inspire the change agents in all of us. You learn about current unsustainable trends, see where the change is already happening today and which ini-tiatives are leading. You can see how people like you and me can change their material footprint of today and live a sustainable life in 2050. You can also calculate your personal material footprint. To imagine how life in 2050 might look like, you can go on a journey to four different travel destinations displaying societies in 2050. Download the report.

The SPREAD Consortium :

Partners organisatons

Collaborating Centre for Sustainable Consumption and Production (CSCP)

Demos Helsinki

Energy Research Centre of the Netherlands (ECN)

Politecnico di Milano (Polimi)

EuroHealthNet

The International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics at Lund University (ULUND)

Regional Environmental Center for Central and Eastern Europe (REC)

Ecoinstitut Barcelona

Northern Alliance for Sustainability (ANPED)

Ashoka France

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Partnerships ANPED

Þ PERL:Partnership for Education and Research about Responsible living

PERL is a partnership of educators and researchers from over 120 insti-tutions in more than 50 countries–working to empower citizens to live responsible and sustainable lifestyles. www.perlprojects.org

Þ ‘Water is a human right’

‘Water is a human right’ is a European Citizens’ Initiative, the first to reach 1 million signatures for a European wide petition to the EU parliament. www.right2water.eu/supporting-organisations.

Þ Dot eco

Dot eco: The environmental community has come together to create a new domain name ending: .ECO instead of .COM. www.doteco.org

Þ Carpathian Convention

The Carpathian Convention is a subregional treaty to foster the sustainable development and the protection of the Carpathian region. www.carpathianconvention.org

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4. COMMUNICATION2012 was a big year in terms of communication. The vast and complex communication we did related to Rio+20 has already been described. We have explained above our work in creating a global community surrounding environmental justice through EJOLT communication channels: mainly the website, twitter and facebook. Most of our communication work on SPREAD we did via social media and the closing conference we organised. “The Switch”, our monthly newsletter, keeps expanding its reach and is now send to almost 2700 people all over the world. We did a survey to test the satisfaction of readers and improve our communication based on their needs and suggestions. The results of this survey are still on our website. Our communication tools have remained the same in 2012:

Þ ANPED Website: www.anped.org

This is our basecamp. It contains hundreds of pages with background information on all relevant policy processes, ANPED topics and an archive of publications and newsletters.

Þ ANPED newsletter, “The Switch”

“The Switch” includes recommended selected articles, interesting books/reports/videos/con-ferences and provides links to more in-depth information. Since 2011, The Switch starts with an editorial linking a recent trend to its implications on sus-tainability. You can subscribe here.

Þ ANPED Facebook Page

ANPED Facebook page is a platform aimed at building a closer relationship with our audience, members and supporters, and keep our community updated on our activities. It also gives us awareness of our partner’s activities and it expands our communication range.

Þ ANPED Issuu Library

ANPED created this new tool in 2012 to provide an easier access to our library of publications. The issuu library contains all the most important publications ANPED has been involved in or has coordinated. The extra advantage of issuu is that the pdf’s are presented in a very readable format.

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5. OTHER ACTIVITIESANPED participated in many other events, just to name a few:

Date Activity27 January Input hearing Rio+20 – EESC-Brussels

6 February Carpathian Convention meeting: Climate change

7-8 February Input meeting EESC – Rio+20 Brussels

18 March PERL meeting: lecture on Rio+20 - Berlin

21 March By invitation: presentation of degrowth movement at G77 meeting – New York

22 March ANPED, Dan’92, CSE event: workshop Principles for a Fair and Green Economy – New York

15 March ANPED event (EEB, CIDSE): Rio+20: How to achieve justice in the Green Economy debate

16 April Lecture: Rio+20, Tiye International, women organisation-The Hague -NL

17-18 April Workshop ‘MML Actions plans: future developments’ - Brussels

21 April Masterclass Sustainable Development: lecture on green economy versus ecological economics

18-22 April Lecture: Conference Kiev Green Economy / Rio+20 Ukraine

24 April Lecture Rio+20: Climaxi Brussels

8-9 May Lecture Rio+20/Green Economy: Friends of the Earth – Zagreb Croatia

13-15 May Smart CSO network – Paris France

21 May Lecture Rio+20/Green Economy/Governance: EuroNGOs Brussels

22-23 May Expert workshop SPREAD roadmap and lecture Rio+20 – Barcelona City Council

24 May Expert workshop SPREAD Roadmap: Belgian policymakers, PODDO - Brussels

1 June AGM – ANPED (telephone conference)

2 June Wervel workshop: lecture on green economy versus ecological economics (Belgium)

20 June AGM – ANPED (Rio de Janeiro)

5 July Input on EESC meeting Post Rio+20 - Brussels

5 September Input European Parliament hearing after Rio+20

26-28 September Lectures on Summer school University Bilbao – Green Economy - Spain

1 October Lecture Rio+20/Green Economy; annual meeting EEB - Brussels

15-18 October Lectures Green Economy, post Rio+20, Bilbao and Madrid (Unesco Etxea) - Spain

1-3 November Participation Conference “Dialogue in Transformation”, Germanwatch, Bonn - Germany

12 November Lecture: “From international cooperation towards Sustainable Development”, ALOP, 11.11.11. - Brussels

13-14 December Lecture: “Umbrella organisations for Environmental NGOs – do’s and don’ts” – Gob de Cataluña - Barcelona

17 December Lecture: “civil society participation in policy processes”, Brussels Sustainable Development Summit, Brussels

18 December Input hearing Rio+20 – EESC Brussels

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Pieter van der Gaag is head of Marketing and Communication at Triodos Investment Management (the Netherlands).

Anna Golubovska-Onisimova (Treasurer): co-founder and Chair of the Coordination Board of “MAMA-86” (Ukrain).

Lucie Greyl (Secretary) : co-ordinator of the Centre for the Documentation of Environmental Conflict (CDCA) in Italy.

Lesha Witmer has several board roles in international networks & member Steering Committee of the European Water Stewardship.

Chris Church chairs the UK Low Carbon Communities Network.

Tomislav Tomasevic is the president of Green Action (Friends of the Earth) Croatia.

6. SECRETARIAT and MEMBERS The year 2012 was a year of consolidating the turbulent changes that ANPED has gone through in 2011. At the same time, the conference of Rio+20 did not allow ANPED to focus much on structural organisational issues. We started the year with a staff of 3 working mainly towards Rio+20, spent a summer with 2 staff and hired a third person to assist us with the closing confe- rence of the SPREAD project. The Board and coordination of ANPED remained in the same hands.

Þ The board

Janis Brizga (Chair): Head of the board of NGO Green Liberty in Latvia.

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Þ The staff in Brussels

Leida Rijnhout - Executive Director

Social anthropologist with 10 years of experience in internation-al cooperation. But after this period she noticed that this way of working was not the most efficient one for achieving a fair-er world. She made the switch to sustainable development and worked after that, for 15 years now, on issues like ecological debt and environmental justice. She is responsible for the general man-agement of ANPED, policy work in the European projects and does also the following up of the UN- and European processes on SD and SCP.

Nick Meynen - Communications and Policy officer

Working as author, activist and journalist, Nick uses his solid ac-ademic qualifications (master geography - postgrad conflict & development -postgrad investigative journalism) and field ex-perience to bring serious issues of injustice to a broader public. He can combine professional with life experience in the field of environmental justice. As investigative journalist he unearthed dirty secrets of the aid and climate industry. His book on how globalisation is changing Nepal was reprinted and in April 2013 he published a book on changing man-nature relationships through walking.

Leonardo Rocha – Communications and Project officer (until June 2012)

With a background in Journalism and European Studies, Leonardo Rocha worked in Communications with a special inter-est in Development and Regional Integration. Besides working in ANPED’s Communication and being responsible for its social me-dia strategy, he was closely involved with the framework of UN CSD RIO+20 and the follow up of EU SDS processes.

Sonia Goicoechea – Administration officer and event organiser (From September 2012)

After nine years of experience in the NGO world (in Europe and in Africa) she started working for ANPED’s team with the mission to organise the final SPREAD conference. After this successful expe-rience she could stay at ANPED to provide general administration and logistic support for the daily running of the office and the organisation of meetings and project events. She’s also a pho-tographer, a polyvalent worker and always ready to discover new working areas and projects.

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In 2012, 8 new organisations joined the ANPED network! ANPED has currently 40 members from the UNECE-region.

2012 ANPED member organisations CountryA Sud - Ecologia e Cooperazione ONLUS (A Sud) Italy

Act4change Belgium

Albanian Ecological Club- International Friends of Nature (AEC-IFN) Albania

Association for Environment and nature protection Green Osijek (GREEN OSIJEK) Croatia

Association for sustainable human development (ASHD) Armenia

Associations 21 pour un développement durable (Associations 21) Belgium

Assosiation for ecologically clean Fergana Uzbekistan

Capacity Global UK

CEEweb for Biodiversity (CEEweb) Hungary

Center for humane technologies AHALAR (CHT AHALAR) Ukraine

Centre Women and Modern World Center (CWMW) Azerbaijan

Ecologistas en Accion Spain

Eco-TIRAS International Environmental Association of River Keepers (Eco-TIRAS) Moldova

ECOTOPIA - Environmental Research and Awareness Society (ECOTOPIA) Greece

eco-union Spain

Eko Tim Serbia Serbia

Ekopsychology society (EKOPSYCHOLOGY) Poland

Environmental centre for Development, Education and Networking (EDEN centre) Albania

Environment-people-law (EPL) Ukraine

Finnish Association for Nature Conservation (FANC) Finland

Forum Environment and Development, Germany (Forum E&D) Germany

Friends of the Earth (FoE) Croatia

Goedewaar Netherlands

Green Liberty (GL) Latvia

Greenwomen “Analytical Environmental Agency” (Greenwomen AEA) Kazachstan

HELIO International France

INSnet Foundation (iNSnet) Netherlands

International Charitable Organisation Information Center Green Dossier (GREEN DOSSIER) Ukraine

International Discussion Club/Association for International Development & Collaboration (IDC-Moscow) Russia

National Association of the UN Youth Clubs (NAUNYC) Bulgaria

Nature protection team/UNEPCOM-Tajikistan (NPT) Tajikistan

Planet for Life Ukraine

Society for Sustainable Living in the Slovak Republic (SSL/SR) Slovak Republic

SOSNA association (SOSNA) Slovak Republic

Sustainable Europe Research Institute Germany e.V. (SERI) Germany

Toxic Action network (TAN) Kyrgyzstan

Ukrainian National Environmental Non-Governmental Organisation “Mama86” (UNENGO “MAMA-86) Ukraine

UNEP National Committee Bulgaria (UNEPNC Bulgaria) Bulgaria

United Religions Initiative (URI) US

World Future Council (WFC) Germany

World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA) Netherlands

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7. FINANCIAL OVERVIEWSummary of financial report (whole report is on ANPED website)

IN OUT

Memberships, donations and subsidies 239.253,88 € Services and various goods 137.849,96 €

Sell publications and services and other fees 46.612,40 € Renumerations and social

charges 137.801,56 €

Provision for risks and costs 10.800,00 € Depreciations and provision -7.619,50 €

Other revenues 2.464,21 € Other costs 56,58 €

Interests 42,54 € Financial costs 903,91 €

Exceptional costs 12.800,40 €

Total IN 299.173,03 € Total OUT 281.792,91 €

Saldo 2012 17.380,12 €

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ANPED contact:Fiennesstraat 77, 1070 Brussels

BELGIUMEmail: leida@anped.org

Website: www.anped.orgTel: + 32 2 520 1261