Ministers review Africa's platform for Rio+20, consensus statement expected tomorrow
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The Executive Secretary of the UN Economic Commission for Africa, Mr. Abdoulie Janneh, today launched the ministerial segment of the Africa Regional Preparatory Conference for Rio+20 with an ardent call for African policymakers to rethink existing growth paradigms for the continent. The ministerial meeting is to look at the draft African Consensus Statement to Rio+20 and a proposed resolution on the Consensus Statement and on modalities for Africa’s effective participation at Rio+20 for consideration by the African Union Summit of January 2012, crafted by the experts’ session that had been holding since 20 October 2011, according to the Information and Communication Service of ECA. The draft African Consensus Statement to Rio+20 that has been prepared by the expert segment of the meeting is comprehensive and outlines Africa’s concerns in almost all areas of sustainable development, including agriculture and food security, land management, consumption and production, tourism, energy, industrial development, globalization and trade, access to water, human settlement, etc. Apart from the Consensus Statement, the Africa Regional Preparatory Conference for Rio+20 is expected to produce a set of practical and action-oriented recommendations on the different thematic areas in regard to advancing its sustainable development agenda. African regional preparations for Rio+20 are being led by ECA, in collaboration with the African Union Commission and the African Development Bank (AfDB), in partnership with Regional Economic Communities (RECs), the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).
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“United Nations. Economic Commission for Africa. (2011-10). Ministers review Africa's platform for Rio+20, consensus statement expected tomorrow. Addis Ababa:. © UN. ECA,. https://hdl.handle.net/10855/32984”Collections
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