World conference Rio +20 North Africa is getting ready

Abstract

One of the highlights of the 27th session of ICE to be organized by the Office for North Africa of ECA will be the Expert Group Meeting on Rio + 20: Progress and Challenges for North Africa”. This meeting has two major objectives: To assess the nature and extent of progress the sub region has made in the area of sustainable development, and to build consensus on what North Africa can expect from Rio +20 Conference due to be held in June 2012. This Conference will take stock of progress made twenty years after the holding of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development also known as the "Earth Summit". It will cover two main topics: the promotion of green economy in the context of sustainable development and poverty eradication, and the institutional and strategic framework for sustainable development.