This report is prepared in response to the need to contribute to and facilitate implementation of national support to the formulation of National Sustainable Development Strategies (NSDS) in the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM). It is an
The aim of this report is to assess if the five key principles of the internationally agreed National Sustainable Development Strategy (NSDS) requirements (UNDESA 2005) are adequately incorporated into Fiji's national priorities and targets, strategies, indicators, and institutional framework. A national sustainable development strategy is a tool to integrate the national policies and plans from the various sectors with the aim of ensuring that economic development is socially responsible and maintains an adequate natural resource base for future generations.
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The Report is about Kiribati" National Strategies for Sustainable Development. The Environment Act and the National Development Strategies 2000- 2003, the basis for the
The Asia and the Pacific region is comprised of 43 countries and a number of territories, and is, for the purposes of this report, divided into six sub-regions. It is endowed with a rich diversity of natural, social and economic resources. The length
of its coastline is two-thirds of the global total, and it has the world's largest mountain chain. The region includes some of the poorest nations in the world, several highly advanced economies, and a number of rapidly growing ones, notably China and India. From 1987 to 2007, the population increased from
The Common Country Assessment (CCA) is an assessment of the overall development situation of the country that is undertaken by the United Nations Country Team (UNCT) in collaboration with the government and other development partners. As well as providing an overall description of the state of development in the country, the CCA identifies key development issues and challenges facing the country that the UN system, along with other agencies and the government, need to address in their
People care about coasts. Around the world, hundreds of millions of people live their lives on and derive their livelihoods from
coasts and coastal resources. Hundreds of millions more people who don't live on the coast use them for recreation or depend on
the resources and environmental services they produce. The damage caused by human activities, whether it is from habitat loss, pollution damage or increased exposure to natural disasters caused by things such as mangrove destruction, attract great political and public concern.
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The economic survival of various production sectors, and of the people depending on those sectors for their livelihoods, is intricately connected to the conservation and
In addition, the Leaders have also called for the implementation of the respective regional frameworks, regional strategies and or regional plans of actions (See Annex 1) in relation
to sectoral and cross sectoral themes, including on climate change and disaster (Initiatives 5.5 and 13.4), and energy (Initiative 5.4, and mitigation aspects of aspects of 5.5). These regional policies and frameworks of action guide the efforts of regional organisations and development partners in supporting member countries to address their respective national
This Partnership Agreement is the result of an extensive Government led formulation process that used the Medium Term Development Strategy as its cornerstone and constitutes a single and unified United Nations Country Programme (UNCP) for 2008-2012 for UNFPA, UNICEF, UNDP, WHO, UNHCR, UNAIDS, OCHA, OHCHR, IFAD, UNIFEM, ILO, UNESCO, FAO, and UN HABITAT.
This report was prepared for the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED). The report reviews the state of the environment and development in the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) and the constraints and opportunities for sustainable development. In preparing this report, the FSM has used the term sustainable development to mean attainment of a level of natural resource utilization and environmental quality at a level sufficient to maintain the desired degree of
economic development and quality of life appropriate for the cultures of the FSM.
This report was prepared for the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED). The report reviews the state of the environment and development in the Republic of Marshall Islands (RMI) and the constraints and opportunities for sustainable development, in preparing this report, the RMI has used the term sustainable development to mean maintenance of
The Cook Islands is made up of 15 islands spread out over an exclusive economic zone of approximately two million square kilometres (750,000 square miles) in the Southern Pacific Ocean. Two of these islands are uninhabited. Total land area is just
under 240 square kilometres with Rarotonga the center of Government and commerce representing just over 28 percent of the total.
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This report reflects the achievements and constraints that have emerged in the course of implementing the Rio agreements, also popularly known as Agenda 21. The major part of the document represents the views of the National Multi Stakeholder Consultation Workshop attended by wide cross section of the community from different cultural, social, economic, religious, and educational backgrounds. Additionally, it depicts an
awareness of problems that prevailed. The recommendations for a more effective environmental management framework were those suggested by the participants.
A prerequisite for attaining sustainable development is a comprehensive environmental management framework that is nationally adaptable and applicable. Essentially it must be
an integrated national input by the various stakeholders, community groups, private and public sectors within the urban and rural populations.
The current recorded achievements since the Rio Conference constiftites the major part of this document in addition to the future national deliberations towards achieving sustainable development.
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Developed in 1994, the NEMS highlights strategies for the development of policy and planning mechanisms for sustainable development, human resource management, pollution control,
education and information, preservation of cultural, archaeological and historical resources, and recommendations for long-term sustainable management plans for tourism development, marine resources protection, and agriculture.
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Tokelau is a non self-governing territory of New Zealand. Tokelau wishes to move toward greater self-governance and is supported in this by the Government of New Zealand and the UN Special Committee on Decolonisation. The Modern House of
Tokelau (MHT) is a major Tokelau initiative that aims to provide a governance structure that better fits Tokelau's cultural context and increases Tokelau's capacity to manage it's own affairs in a sustainable fashion.
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In his opening address of the workshop, the Director of the Environment Unit, Mr. Ernest Bani, brought up some challenging issues regarding our natural resource management to ensure that there is sustainable development - so that we would
have the capacity to earn our income to meet our health and education costs, but at the same time, those resources are still in tact for our future generation.
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This Summary document has been produced as a means to relay key national issues/messages regarding sustainable development to:| Assist in ensuring national based messages are conveyed in the regional assessment document and deliberations for WSSD at the regional and international level;| Provide the stimulus for countries to finalise their National Assessment Reports (NARs)
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There has been some comment and criticism on putting too
much emphasis on legal requirements and environmental
conditions in leases and licences without looking at the
impact of these requirements on the capability of the lessee
or licencee to comply with them. It is equally important
that the resources available to enforce conditions and the
quality of the leasing and licensing programmes are
adequate.
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This report briefly summarises the opening ceremony for the new Lateu settlement in the Torba Province, Vanuatu. It is part of the Capacity Building for the Development of Adaptation in
Pacific Island Countries project (CBDAMPIC) funded by the CIDA and executed in the Pacific region by the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP). Proceedings