18 June 2012  
 Rio de Janeiro - Brazil  
 Workshop: Poverty and access to basic services  
 

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#### Side-event n°1 : Innovative field actions as leverage for change  
 

***The Veolia Institute's partners for this side-event workshop were Civicus, the global alliance of [the civil society organizations](http://www.civicus.org) and the [European confederation of Relief and Development NGOs](http://www.concordeurope.org/fr).***

   ![](/sites/g/files/dvc2551/files/styles/crop_freeform/public/image/2015/11/Atelier_Pauvrete-RioUN_0.jpg.webp?h=4c8f4283&itok=XvxXHDB9 "Atelier pauvreté et accès aux services essentiels RIO + 20UN")   



The staging of an official side-event was made possible by the [**official accreditation given to the Veolia Institute by the General assembly of the United Nations in May 2012**](/fr/l-institut).  
In its capacity as a think-tank, the Institute is now recognized as a member of the “civil society” network of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA).  
 [PDF

  Program of the side-event n°1  (144.89 KB)  

    ](/sites/g/files/dvc2551/files/document/2016/02/SideEventInnovativeFieldActionsAsLeverageForChange_note_0.pdf) 

 



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Side-event n°2 : UNEP Session, City of Gwangju, ICLEI

   ![](/sites/g/files/dvc2551/files/styles/crop_freeform/public/image/2016/02/Atelier_Session_PNUE_Rio20_1_0.png.webp?h=9bfa50ab&itok=MCM2AN2u "atelier session pnue")   



The Institute took part in this session – organized by the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), the City of Gwangju, and ICLEI (Local Governments for Sustainability), on the fringes of Rio+20 – to present and showcase the results of [the study conducted with UNEP](/en/what-we-do/studies/measuring-environmental-performance-cities) on the measurement of urban environmental performance, in the presence of David Miller (former Mayor of Toronto and Chair of the C40) and the Mayor of Gwangju.  [PDF

  Program of the side-event n°2  (136.57 KB)  

    ](/sites/g/files/dvc2551/files/document/2016/02/GlobalTownHallUNEPSessionJune18_1.pdf) 

 



[Find more about our conference](http://institut.veolia.org/en/what-we-do/workshops-and-seminars/rio-20-poverty-environment-conference)