Two weeks of informal-informal negotiations on the outcome document (previously known as the Zero Draft) for the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20) took place at UN Headquarters (UNHQ) from 23 April through 4 May. In-depth, often intense discussions lasted into evening sessions and were split into two working groups: Working Group I, which addressed sections III (green economy in the context of sustainable development and poverty eradication) and V (framework for action and follow-up), and Working Group II, which addressed sections I (Preamble), II (Renewing Political Commitment,) and IV (Institutional Framework for Sustainable Development, or IFSD). Co-Chairs John Ashe (Antigua and Barbuda) and Kim Sook (Republic of Korea) alternated facilitation of the two groups. (...)

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