As part of ongoing efforts to build CitNet's relationship with the North American Sustainable Consumption Alliance (NASCA), the new Sustainable Consumption Research and Action Initiative (SCORAI), and the Canadian Environmental Network (CEN), we have discussed an idea by which to implement last November's proposal to promote a regional dialog on sustainable production and consumption.

The idea is to establish a North American Roundtable on Sustainable Production and Consumption, an ongoing partnership to provide opportunities for wider discussion about sustainable production and consumption, especially in relation to the growing debate on the "green economy."

As you may know, the "green economy" is one of the two main themes agreed for the upcoming UN Earth Summit +20 summit in 2012, on the anniversary of the original Earth Summit meeting in Rio in 1992. The Roundtable will provide CitNet members with a valuable way to engage with other North Americans on this topic and to contribute informed views in both the national and international debate.

We are thus also exploring the possibility of enabling the North American Roundtable on SPC within the UN Partnership Fair process so we can share North America's views and ideas about consumption, production and the green economy with the rest of the international community.