Co-Chairs of the Global Environment Facility of the Ministerial Roundtable on Financing for Environment and Sustainable Development: Kjell Larsson, Swedish Environment Minister, and Mohammed Valli Moosa, South African Minister for Environmental Affairs and Tourism, and Precious Ngelale, Minister of State of Water Resources, Nigeria, speaking on behalf of the African Ministers Conference on Water.



Mohammed Valli Moosa, South African Minister for Environmental Affairs and Tourism, noted that the Summit can ensure that actions for environmental sustainability achieve Millennium Development goals

In his statement later, Kjell Larsson called for consideration of the ethical dimension of sustainable development. He called for, inter alia, decoupling economic growth from environmental degradation, a task force on global public goods, and corporate accountability for multinational corporations.

Spain, for the EU, 

Co-Chair Ositadinma Anaedu, Nigeria

(right photo) Klaus Toepfer, UNEP Executive Director, and Tahar-Hadj Sadok, Climate Change Secretariat

Klaus Toepfer, UNEP Executive Director, with former UNEP Executive Directors Mustafa Tolba (left) and Maurice Strong (right)

Indonesian NGOs "sit in" at the conference center

NGOs walk backwards through the conference center to illustrate the direction that the process is moving in

A delegate watches the Plenary broadcast outside the conference room