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UNITED STATES:

Amb. Victor Marrero welcomed efforts underway in the UN Inter-Agency Committee on Sustainable Development to develop a coherent scheme for the implementation of Agenda 21 within the UN system. At home, the US has created the President's Council on Sustainable Development, is making efforts to increase energy efficiency, preparing a forest policy, and promoting sustainable development in government procurement practices. Last week, the US and Colombia co-hosted a meeting on environmentally sound technologies. It was hoped that a review of specific "real world" examples of technology cooperation would result in a more effective and realistic consideration of this complex issue in the future. The US will host a conference on land-based sources of marine pollution in 1995. The US also supports the Conference on the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States, has taken measures to prevent large-scale pelagic driftnet fishing, and is committed to: reducing greenhouse gas emissions to their 1990 levels by the year 2000; implementing the Biodiversity Convention; participating in the INCD; restructuring the GEF; and facilitating greater technology cooperation.