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Digital Coverage/ Joint Summary
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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 Thursday, 7 March 2013
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The Conference on Sustainable Development in Latin America and the Caribbean: Follow-up to the development agenda beyond 2015 and Rio+20 opened on Thursday, 7 March 2013, at the Crowne Plaza Tequendama Hotel in Bogota, Colombia. The meeting was convened by the UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and the Government of Colombia. Over 250 representatives from governments, international organizations and civil society gathered to discuss development goals, global and regional governance and implications, from a regional perspective, of the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20), as well as the post-2015 development agenda, with the aim of informing ongoing global processes.
In the morning, participants heard opening remarks. Maria Ángela Holguín, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Colombia, emphasized the need for the post-2015 development agenda to be: universal; focused on achievement; centered on poverty eradication, in the context of sustainable development; and based on equity. ECLAC Executive Secretary Alicia Bárcena called for a view of development that transcends poverty reduction, observing no “unique recipe” exists and that every country must choose its own development model. Heraldo Muñoz, UNDG-LAC, discussed: the move towards a renewed vision of development, with emerging topics and a new financial architecture; and avoiding imposing a top-down approach in the new development agenda. Amina J. Mohammed, Special Advisor of the UN Secretary-General on Post-2015 Development Planning, called for one cohesive, bold and ambitious global agenda with one set of goals that properly integrates both people and the planet.
In the morning, participants also discussed follow-up to the post-2015 development agenda, while in the afternoon, discussions turned to options for convergence towards sustainable development, including a regional vision of sustainable development. In the evening, delegates attended a reception hosted by the Government of Colombia.
The session will resume on Friday morning. |
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L-R: María Angela Holguín, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Colombia; Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary, ECLAC, and Coordinator of the Regional Coordination Mechanism; Ambassador André Corrêa do Lago, Brazil; and Gisela Alonso, member of the High-Level Panel on the Post-2015 Development Agenda and President of the Cuban Agency of Environment |
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Opening Session
High-level Panel on the post-2015 Development Agenda
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L-R: Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary, ECLAC, and Coordinator of the Regional Coordination Mechanism; José Luis Samaniego, ECLAC; HLP member Patricia Espinosa, Mexico; Amina J. Mohammad, UN Assistant Secretary-General Special Advisor on Post-2015 Development Planning; María Ángela Holguín, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Colombia; Luis Fidel Yanez, Secretariat; Gisela Alonso, President of the Cuban Agency of Environment; Heraldo Muñoz, Chair, UNDG-LAC
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National Perspectives on the post-2015 Development Agenda
Rio+20: Sustainable Development Goals within the Framework of "The Future We Want"
Plenary Discussion Statements by Delegations
Around the Meeting
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Daily web coverage
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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
SDG - A mailing list focused on internationally-relevant activities related to setting the post-2015 development agenda
Sustainable Development Policy & Practice - A Knowledgebase of International Activities Preparing for the UN Conference on Sustainable Development
Sustainable Energy Policy & Practice - A Knowledgebase of Sustainable Energy Activities
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
Linkages Update - Bi-weekly international environment and sustainable development news
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