Making a bold declaration at Rio+20, the Grenadian prime minister highlighted, as an example of the national effort, the construction of the first green parliament building in the Americas. This paper concludes with the final words of the prime minister at the Rio+20 conference: ‘For the future we want, for the future we need, visionary and action-oriented leadership is a fundamental requirement. We motivate our people to pursue the path to sustainable development, and we commit to achieving the goals of Rio+20, acting at the national level and in collaboration with our global partners’ (GoG 2012e).