ESCAP-EPOC
10 Dec 2011
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SIDS Policy and Practice
While discussions focused on Iraq and combating terrorism, the 2004 G8 Summit, which took place from 8-10 June at Sea Island, Georgia, US, produced a number of environment and sustainable development-related outcomes.
These include agreements on: an action plan to “apply the power of entrepreneurship and the private sector” toward poverty alleviation; taking all necessary steps to eradicate polio by the end of 2005; an initiative to help prevent famine by improving worldwide emergency...
10 Dec 2011
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SIDS Policy and Practice
The 60th Session of the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific convened from 22-28 April 2004 in Shanghai, China, concluding with the adoption of the Shanghai Declaration, which reaffirmed the central role of the UN in promoting international cooperation for development and called for the highest priority to be given to reducing poverty in the region.
Resolutions were also adopted on: a regional call for action to enhance capacity building in public health; implementing...
10 Dec 2011
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SIDS Policy and Practice
The XIV Ministerial Conference of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) took place from 17-19 August 2004 in Durban, South Africa.
Ministers addressed developments in the international situation, reviewed implementation of decisions taken at the XIII NAM Conference of Heads of State held in Kuala Lumpur in February 2003, and prepared for the next NAM Summit, which is scheduled to take place in Havana, Cuba in September 2006. The meeting concluded with a Ministerial Declaration that flagged concern at...
10 Dec 2011
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SIDS Policy and Practice
The 15th South Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) Meeting of Officials met from 13-16 September, and the fifth SPREP Environment Ministers’ Meeting met on 17 September in Pape’ete, Tahiti, French Polynesia.
The meetings endorsed a new strategic approach for the regional intergovernmental organization for the period 2005-2009, departing from its previous organizational arrangement of having five key result areas and establishing two new long-term strategic programmes – the Island...
10 Dec 2011
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SIDS Policy and Practice
January 2006: Regional implementation meetings have now taken place in all UN regions in preparation for the fourteenth session of the UN Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD-14). Participants at these meetings considered the thematic cluster of issues to be considered at CSD-14 and identified priority actions based on their regions’ experience and needs.
The Arab Regional Implementation Meeting (RIM) convened in association with the Joint Committee for Environment and Development in the...
