![]() ![]() Introducing the report of the Commission's Ad Hoc Open-ended Intersessional Working Group, Co-Chairman Derek Osborn (United Kingdom) expressed the hope that firm proposals for action and implementation in key areas would emerge from the high-level segment of the current session. It had also leveraged an additional $3.3 billion from bilateral, national, multilateral and private sources. It had 160 participating countries and had been designated the interim financial mechanism for the Biological Diversity Convention and the Climate Change Convention, programming more than $1.3 billion in grants to developing countries. El-Ashry, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Global Environment Facility (GEF), said the Facility represented the first and most significant financial accomplishment arising from the Rio summit. Sustainable Development Commission - 1a - Press Release ENV/DEV/408 1st Meeting (AM) 8 April 1997 The Programme now had a forum for the world's environment ministers which could function as a place to set the world's environmental agenda. That document would be an input to the special session which must convey a sense of urgency and reaffirm the highest-level political support for sustainable development, recognizing the interdependence of its economic, social and environmental components, she added.Īddressing the role of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), its Executive Director, Elizabeth Dowdeswell, said that in order to respond effectively to the challenges of the next millennium, the Programme had to become a true "world environment authority" bringing coherence to an increasingly fragmented system of environmental laws and secretariats. It should go beyond diagnosis to prognosis and set out practical, achievable and, if possible, measurable actions for reversing some of the negative trends which were plain for all to see. Speaking on behalf on the Under-Secretary-General for Policy Coordination and Sustainable Development, the Director of the Division for Sustainable Development, Joke Waller-Hunter, said the Commission should send a document to the special session that provided solutions. Stressing that its recommendations should represent a consensus view, he recalled that the Commission would also have to define its role in the years ahead. ![]() Mostafa Tolba (Eygpt) said the current one would be different from previous sessions since the Commission had a mandate to assess and review everything that had and had not been achieved in the context of the outcome of Rio. The Commission on Sustainable Development must propose clear goals and targets within the agreed framework of the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), as well as specific recommendations to the General Assembly's special session to review the Rio outcome next June, the newly elected Chairman told the Commission this morning as it began its three-week fifth session - during which it will function as a preparatory and negotiating body for the Assembly session. COMMISSION ON SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT BEGINS FIFTH SESSION MEETING AS PREPARATORY BODY FOR ASSEMBLY'S REVIEW OF AGENDA 21 19970408 ![]()
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