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INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON HEALTH, THE ENVIRONMENT AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT:
This workshop was held in Copenhagen,
Denmark, from 23-25 February 1994. Participants recommended that
the CSD: promote awareness and commitment to the close and
fundamental relationship between health, the environment and
sustainable development; convince governments of the need for
political commitment to integrate these three issues; encourage a
carefully planned redirection of national and international
resources towards health and the environment; encourage relevant
actors to participate in the sustainable planning process; and
ensure at the national and local levels that major groups are given
better opportunities to be involved in decisions and action to
protect and promote health. The participants also suggested the
means towards achieving these recommendations, including:
institutional capacity building; collaboration between UN agencies,
international bodies and NGOs; formulation of policies and
programmes in multilateral and bilateral cooperation agencies; the
promotion of research; and the use of economic instruments and
information dissemination.