1. The rebirth of sustainable development -- President Lula da Silva's and Brazil's case for a Rio+20 -- The 2008 crisis as a catalyst for breaking the silos between development and sustainable development -- The old order changes and new players in the developing world emerge -- The science underpinning an integrated approach towards development -- 2. Chronicling the key impacts on Rio+20 -- How Rio+20 was constructed -- The formal preparations process and the lessons to be drawn -- The political role of the UN Secretary-General -- Innovative partnerships supporting Rio+20 -- The informal process in New York and its importance for consensus-building -- International meetings that gave Rio+20 a global impact -- Stakeholders' preparations and their growing influence in the policy definition process -- The transition from the informal and the global to the textual of "The future we want" -- Enabling UN leaders behind Rio+20 -- The Rio+20 Secretariat. 3. How did it all come to happen? -- The decisions that were required in order to start building a new development framework -- Key divergences as the meeting started -- The group of developing countries : too diverse to negotiate as a single block? -- The European Union and Rio+20 -- The United States of America and Rio+20 -- A final push to conclude the process -- No perfect outcome : the gaps in "The future we want" -- 4. Multiplying commitments -- Introduction -- The stakeholder Dialogue Days -- Voluntary commitments -- National Councils for Sustainable Development and economic and social committees -- Sub-national and local government -- Future Earth -- Education and training -- The World Congress on Justice, Governance and Law for Environmental Sustainability -- Initiatives on transparency and access to information -- Sustainable Energy for All (SE4All) and commitments and achievements on energy at Rio+20 -- Financial commitments. 5. From Rio+20 to 2015 and the new development agenda -- Was Rio+20 a failure or a success? -- A new, inspiring narrative : development for all within the limits of our planet -- Institutions for a new development agenda -- How can universal Sustainable Development Goals build a single yet differentiated development agenda? -- Resource mobilization and financing for sustainable development -- A reformed Economic and Social Council and the High-Level Political Forum -- The United Nations Environment Assembly and a new governance model for environmental sustainability -- The role of stakeholders in global policy-making -- Ahead of January 2016.