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The
World Summit on Sustainable Development
Bali,
Indonesia | 25 May - 7 June 2002
Fourth Preparatory Committee (WSSD PrepCom-IV)
Monday, 3 June Delegates
met in morning and afternoon Informal Plenary sessions to consider the
updated Draft Plan of Implementation for the WSSD, released Monday
morning, 3 June. The
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Co-Chairs Diane Quarless, Jamaica, and Jan
Kára, Czech
Republic
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Regarding financial resources, Canada said agreements have been captured best in the Monterrey Consensus, and he expressed interest in hearing more comments from developing countries. He called for increasing clarity on the monitoring and evaluation process. |
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Spain,
for the EU (center), said partnerships must be demand-driven,
not only donor-driven, and that if they are based on existing partnerships,
they should have a clear added value. He also asked how the follow
up mechanism for the partnerships would be developed, and said they
should be referred to in the proposed Ministerial Declaration or included as
an annex to the meeting report, or that a formal decision on partnerships
should be negotiated. He also supported the guidance document on partnerships for energy, and asked for similar guidance for other
sectors.
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The Philippines expressed concern over the possibility of shifting financial resources from other programmes that are important to developing countries to partnerships. He said that new financial resources must be made available for Type II outcomes. |
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The
US supported moving away from internationally mandated goals
and targets as each country responds to its own conditions.
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Eric Mann, NGOs, questioned the US focus on market-based incentives, as opposed to government regulation. |
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Japan
opposed
a strict framework for partnerships, highlighting flexibility and
simplicity. He also stressed ownership of partnerships.
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Robert Whitfield, Stakeholder Forum for Our Common Future, noted the distinction between partnerships and initiatives |
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Diane Quarless, Jamaica, said the expectation was that discussions on the follow-up mechanism for partnerships would be further along by this point, but were being held up by governance discussions, and proposed that another meeting be convened possibly on Tuesday for further discussions. |
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Popular Coalition to Eradicate Hunger discussed how they are scaling up their local initiatives to the national level and showing how civil society can work with national governments |
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Nitin
Desai, Secretary-General of the WSSD, said that partnerships
must be clearly focused on trying to integrate the three pillars of
sustainable development, but acknowledged that any given activity
will always have a certain emphasis on one objective. He said the
first week in Johannesburg will address partnerships in a far more
focused way, and supported discussing partnerships by themes.
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| Informal Plenary | |
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Chair
Salim (center) with Kiyotaka
Akasaka, Japan,
Ihab
Gamaleldin, Egypt,
Maria Luiza Ribeiro Viotti, Brazil
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Delegates converge in the middle of the room after the informal Plenary breaks |
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Masa Nagai, Bakary Kante and Shafqat Kakakhel of UNEP discussing
text in the back of the room.
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On text relating to energy, Ian Fry, Tuvalu, proposed adding language regarding concerns of countries particularly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change, but the G-77/China, the US and others opposed. |
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Tibor Faragó, Hungary, with Laszlo Miklos , Slovak Environment Minister |
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Spain consults with John Klink, US |
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The
G-77/China and the US consult on biodiversity
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Objecting
to the procedure used to reach agreement on strengthening the capacity
of healthcare systems to deliver basic health services and noting
that the agreement reach had deviated from agreed text from past international
agreements, Canada, supported by a few, reserved the right
to reopen discussion on this issue in Plenary.
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Khalid Abuleif, Saudi Arabia, Luis Niño, Venezuela, G-77/China, and Tuiloma Neroni Slade, Samoa, during the debate on SIDS On
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Co-Chair Lars-Göran Engfeldt, Sweden, with Tonya Barnes, Secretariat |
 The US proposed to add a footnote to the chapeau of the objectives section, which explains that "references to Agenda 21 in the Chapter shall be deemed to include references to Rio+5 and WSSD outcomes." |
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Kim Girtel, Canada, with Hossein Moeini, Iran, who is negotiating governance for the G-77/China |
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Chair Koen Davidse, the Netherlands, during the contact group on good governance |
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Delegates
during the contact group on good governance
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Caribbean
delegates
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Delegates during a side event on the New Partnership for African Development (NEPAD) |
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