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Edwin
Barnes, Chief Director, Ministry of Environment, Science and
Technology (Ghana)
supported the suggestion of hosting Rio+10 in Africa adding that
the concept of sustainable development is not a new one in
Africa. Chiefs, considered custodians of the land, pass down
the same tenets of sustainable development from ancestral leaders,
and so lack of awareness is not the primary obstacle to
implementation. It is the lack of financial resources, and
the manifestation of commitments made in 1992 into action that are
the greatest impediments to implementation. He also suggested that
the issues of poverty, fresh water, desertification, trade, and
financial resources be put on the agenda for Rio+10.
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Felix
Dodds representing the NGO Steering Committee and Bjorn
Stigson of the World Business Council for Sustainable
Development (WBCSD) representing Industry.
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According
to Industry, the global governance that
exists now is not sufficient to lead the world into a sustainable
future.
NGO
Steering Committee wishes to see new issues on the agenda:
HIV/AIDS and environment and security. Dodds added that
implementation lies not only in the hands of governments, but with
NGOs, industry, and other key stakeholders.
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Jocelyn
Dow, Women's Environment and Development Organization stated
that the new century must be based on sustainable livelihoods; it
must adopt a holistic, clear agenda; and women
should be seen as a comprehensive and integral part of the
process. Rio+10 must redefine old issues and forge new
ones.
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UNDP and European Commission Poverty and Environment Initiative
This
side event launched two new publications: "Attacking Poverty While
Improving the Environment: Toward Win-Win Policy Options", and
"Attacking Poverty While Improving the Environment: Practical
Recommendations".
The goal of this initiative is to provide a forum for experience
practitioners, policy-makers, researchers and politicians to share
their knowledge and identify solutions. Drawing on successful
development recommendations for global advocacy as well as research
priorities and practical policies that promote both poverty eradication
and sound environmental management. Thus, a "win-win"situation
for poor people and the environments in which they live will be
fostered. For more information visit www.undp.org/seed/pei
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Nation
Chandarpal, Presidential Adviser on Environment (Guyana)
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George
Foulkes, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, (United
Kingdom)
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Yolanda
Kakabadse, President, IUCN, and Former Minister of Environment
(Ecuador)
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Ten Years of Commitment to European Forests:
The Ministerial Conference on the Protection of Forests in Europe
Ten
years ago, the First Ministerial Conference on the Protection of
Forests in Europe was launched in Strasbourg to better understand
the ways and means for the protection and the sustainable management
of forests as a pan-European level. Forest policy issues have been
given weight and substance at the ministerial level for the first
time. At the Second conference in Helsinki, the pan-European region
responded to the global discussion on sustainable development, thus
defining, inter alia, sustainable forest management for Europe.
At the most recent Conference, held in Lisbon in 1998, the European
Ministers responsible for forests focused on the socio-economic
elements of sustainable forest management.
For
more information, visit:www.minconf-forests.net
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Wilhelm
Molterer, Minister of Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and
Water Management (Austria).
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Victor
Barros, Secretary of State of Rural Development (Portugal)
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 ENB
Summary of Ad Hoc Open-Ended Intergovernmental Group of Experts on Energy
and Sustainable Development
CSD-8
Intersessionals
Linkages
CSD page
UN
- CSD website with official
documents
ENB's
"Introduction to CSD"
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