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Asia and Pacific Regional Implementation Meeting (RIM) on Rio+20 Outcomes

22-24 April 2013 | UN Conference Centre (UNCC), Bangkok, Thailand

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Highlights for Wednesday, 24 April 2013
The Asia and Pacific Regional Implementation Meeting on Rio+20 Outcomes, convened by the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), continued today in Bangkok, Thailand. In the morning a Chair’s summary was distributed for delegates to review. In the afternoon, a plenary session was held. Delegates made comments to the Chair’s summary, and debated the action that should be taken on the summary, and how it should be forwarded as a contribution to global processes. Many delegates supported adopting the summary, while the Russian Federation and others preferred “recognizing” the summary, emphasizing that it is not a negotiated text. The Secretariat stressed that an outcome must be adopted in order for the meeting to conclude. Following informal consultations, delegates agreed to annex the Chair’s summary to the meeting report, which was adopted. The meeting adjourned at 5:12 pm.

During the day, a side event was also convened by UNEP on the 10-Year Framework of Programmes (on Sustainable Consumption and Production, and solutions to sustainable development challenges for Asia and the Pacific.

ENB SUMMARY REPORT: IISD RS has produced a summary report of this meeting in HTML and PDF format.
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A side event on “The Ten Year Framework of Programmes on Sustainable Consumption and Production (10YFP): solutions to sustainable development challenges for Asia and Pacific” included presentations on implementation modalities for the 10YFP at regional and national levels, and a UNEP report entitled “Recent Trends in Material Flows and Resource Productivity in Asia and the Pacific 2013.” During the following discussions, participants highlighted, inter alia: the need for improved access to environmentally sustainable technologies and more information exchange on SCP technologies and practices; the importance of indigenous technologies; SCP require both government policies and a bottom-up approach; the value of including a water programme in the 10FYP; and particular challenges in making SCP relevant to, and achieving it in, LDCs.
 
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Delegates from Kazakhstan and Japan

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Delegates from the Maldives

Related Links
Meeting resources

*Meeting website

*Annotated provisional agenda

*Tentative programme

*Background note

*Main Outcomes of the UNCSD: Issues for Regional Consideration

*Side events

*Information for Major Groups

*UN Rio+20 Follow Up Website

*Asia-Pacific regional activities


IISD RS resources

*IISD RS summary report of the High-level segment of the Sixty-fifth session of the UN Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), 9-11 April 2013, Palais des Nations, Geneva, Switzerland (English: HTML - PDF)

*IISD RS summary report of the First Session of the Open Working Group (OWG) of the UN General Assembly (UNGA) on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), 14-15 March 2013, UN Headquarters, New York, United States of America (English: HTML - PDF) (French: HTML - PDF)

*IISD RS coverage of the Caribbean Forum: Shaping a Sustainable Development Agenda to address the Caribbean Reality in the 21st Century and Conference on Sustainable Development in Latin America and the Caribbean: Follow-up to the development agenda beyond 2015 and Rio+20, 5-6 and 7-9 of March 2013, Bogotá, Colombia

*IISD RS summary report of the Eighth Session of the Committee on Food Security and Sustainable Development (CFSSD-8) and Africa Regional Implementation Meeting (Africa-RIM) in preparation for the Twentieth Session of the UN Commission on Sustainable (CSD-20), 19-21 November 2012, UN Conference Centre (UNCC), Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (English: HTML - PDF) (French: HTML - PDF)

*IISD RS coverage of Rio+20: Third PrepCom and UNCSD, 13-22 June 2012, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

*IISD RS coverage of CSD-19, 2-14 May 2011, UN Headquarters, New York, United States of America

*Sustainable Development Policy & Practice - A Knowledgebase of Activities Contributing to International Sustainable Development

*SDG - A mailing list for news on sustainable development policy

*Sustainable Development Policy & Practice - A Knowledgebase of UN and Intergovernmental Post-2015 Development Agenda Activities

*SDG - A mailing list focused on internationally-relevant activities related to setting the post-2015 development agenda

*Linkages Update - Bi-weekly international environment and sustainable development news
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