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NORWAY:
Minister of Environment Thorbj"rn Berntsen
identified environment and development as existential survival
issues, stressing the need for global partnership. Industrialized
countries must commit to ODA targets, new resources, debt
reduction, fair trade, and predictable and monitored resource
flows. He proposed that the CSD focus on links between production
and consumption patterns and the environment and noted Norway's
follow-up to UNCED. He announced that Norway will host a workshop
on environmentally friendly technology in cooperation with UNCTAD
that could bring strategic options forward to the CSD. Norway is
willing to host an expert meeting to assist in enabling the CSD to
monitor developments with regards to availability of financial
resources for environment and development, including probes for
innovative financing.