You Are Invited, February, 22 2012:
Rio+20: A New Agenda for Sustainability – or More of the Same?

Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Brazil Institute, Environmental Change and Security Program
Wednesday, February 22, 2012, 3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington DC
6th Floor Auditorium
RSVP Agenda Directions Webcast


Robert Engelman, President, Worldwatch Institute
Reid Detchon, Vice President for Energy and Climate, United Nations Foundation
David Sandalow, Assistant Secretary for Policy and International Affairs, Department of Energy

The Rio+20 Conference on Sustainable Development is rapidly approaching – an important opportunity to make progress on the global sustainability agenda. A panel of Reid Detchon, United Nations Foundation, David Sandalow, Under Secretary of Energy, and Robert Engelman, Worldwatch, will discuss the developing agenda.

The “Managing Our Planet” seminar series – developed jointly by George Mason University and the Wilson Center’s Environmental Change and Security Program and Brazil Institute – addresses planetary scale problems and solutions.

If you are interested, but unable to attend the event, please tune into the live or archived webcast.

Location: Woodrow Wilson Center at the Ronald Reagan Building, 1300 Pennsylvania Ave., NW, Washington DC, USA ("Federal Triangle" stop on Blue/Orange Line), 6th floor auditorium. A map to the Center is available at www.wilsoncenter.org/directions. Note: Due to heightened security, entrance to the building will be restricted and photo identification is required. Please allow additional time to pass through security.

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