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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.