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Caribbean Forum: Shaping a Sustainable Development Agenda to address the Caribbean Reality in the 21st Century and Conference on Sustainable Development in Latin America and the Caribbean: Follow-up to the development agenda beyond 2015 and Rio+20
5-6 and 7-9 March 2013 | Bogotá, Colombia
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Highlights for Wednesday, 6 March 2013
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On Wednesday, 6 March, the Caribbean Forum: Shaping a Sustainable Development Agenda to Address the Caribbean Reality in the 21st Century, convened to continue discussing the follow-up to Rio+20, sustainable development goals (SDGs) and the post-2015 development agenda. In the morning, participants exchanged views on enhancing institutional infrastructure and governance for sustainable development in the Caribbean and financing for sustainable development in small, middle-income Caribbean countries.
In the afternoon, participants gathered to adopt a Caribbean statement, which addresses main issues raised during discussions held in the Forum.
In the closing ceremony, participants heard statements. Colin Granderson, Assistant Secretary-General, CARICOM, highlighted the outcome prepared by the Forum, which reflects subregional realities and provides an indicative roadmap for discussions at the regional and global level. Heraldo Muñoz, Chair, United Nations Development Group for Latin America and the Caribbean (UNDG-LAC), drew attention to the different post-2015 development agenda processes, including: the consultations that are taking place at the national, regional and thematic levels; the open working group streams to address mandates coming out of Rio+20; and the SIDS Sustainable Development Conference to be held in 2014, which should provide a unique platform for the Caribbean region to gain political traction.
Alicia Barcena, Executive Secretary, ECLAC, underscored the critical messages that the Caribbean countries discussed in the Forum and were reflected in the outcome document, including the region's high vulnerability, lack of economies of scale, unemployment and the need to move to a different quality of integration process beyond trade. She also underscored the need for a paradigm shift to one of internal development that benefits the people of the subregion.
Chair Carolyn Rodrigues Birkett, Guyana, gaveled the Caribbean Forum to a close at 6:41 pm
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A photo of the participants at the end of the Forum |
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Session 4: Theme 4: Enhancing Institutional Infrastructure and Governance for Sustainable Development in the Caribbean SIDS
Session 4 - Theme 5: Financing for sustainable development in small, middle income countries
Session 5: Plenary session to consider a Caribbean statement on the follow-up to Rio+20, the Sustainable Development Goals and the post-2015 development agenda
Session 6: Closing ceremony
Around the Forum
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ECLAC resources
Meetings website
Preliminary programme for the Caribbean Forum
Preliminary programme for the Conference on Sustainable Development in Latin America and the Caribbean
ECLAC website
Information note
General resource
Sustainable development knowledge platform website
IISD RS resources
IISD RS summary report of the Eighth Session of the Committee on Food Security and Sustainable Development (CFSSD-8) and Africa Regional Implementation Meeting (Africa-RIM) in preparation for the Twentieth Session of the UN Commission on Sustainable (CSD-20), 19-21 November 2012, UN Conference Centre (UNCC), Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (English: HTML - PDF) (French: HTML - PDF)
IISD RS coverage of Rio+20: Third PrepCom and the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD), 13-22 June 2012, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
IISD RS coverage of the UNCSD or Rio+20 Regional Preparatory Meeting for Latin America and the Caribbean, 7-9 September 2011, Santiago, Chile
IISD RS coverage of CSD-19, 2-14 May 2011, UN Headquarters, New York, United States of America
IISD RS archive of sustainable development meetings
SDG - A mailing list for news on sustainable development policy
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Sustainable Development Policy & Practice - A Knowledgebase of International Activities Preparing for the UN Conference on Sustainable Development
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Forests Policy & Practice - A Knowledgebase of International Activities Adressing Forests Policy
Chemicals and Wastes Policy & Practice - A Knowledgebase of International Activities Addressing Chemicals and Wastes Policy
Land Policy & Practice - A Knowledgebase of Activities Addressing International Sustainable Land
Biodiversity Policy & Practice - A Knowledgebase of UN and Intergovernmental Activities Addressing International Biodiversity Policy
SIDS Policy and Practice - A Knowledgebase on the Sustainable Development of small island developing states
Water Policy & Practice - A Knowledgebase of Activities Addressing Sustainable Water and Sanitation
Climate Change Policy & Practice - A Knowledgebase of UN and Intergovernmental Activities Addressing Global Climate Change Policy
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