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Twelfth Session of the Commission
on Sustainable Development (CSD-12)
United Nations
Headquarters, New York | 19-30 April 2004
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Highlights from Monday, 26
April
In
the morning, delegates heard reviews of progress in implementation for
the UNECLAC and UNESCWA regions. In the afternoon, delegates discussed
the relationship among the three themes of water, sanitation and human
settlements, focusing on the role of local authorities, and rights-based
approaches. The Partnership Fair and the Learning Center also held
events throughout the day. Photo: UN
Habitat Executive Director Anna Tibaijuka
presents Nesreen Berwari, Minister for Municipalities and Public Works,
Iraq with HABITAT Scroll of Honor.
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for the UN Webcast of selected segments of CSD12
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Review
of Progress in implementation from a regional perspective for the
UNECLAC Region
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Listen to presentations from:
Mirta
Roses, Director, Regional Office for the America, WHO Carlos
Humberto Peña, Carlos Humberto Pena, General Director of Water,
Ministry of Public Works, Chile
Miguel
Solano, Member of the Technical Committee of the Global Water
Partnership and Advisor on Water Rights, UNECLAC
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Review of
Progress in implementation from a regional perspective for
the UNESCWA Region |
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Listen to presentations from: Fatma
El-Mallah, Head of Environment and Sustainable Development Division,
League of Arab States
Adly
Hussein, Governor of Kalyoubiah, Egypt
Mohammad
El-Eryani, Minister of Water and Environment, Yemen |
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| Discussions
on the relationship among the three themes: Water, Sanitation and
Human Settlements |
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Mark Hildebrand,
Executive Director, Cities Alliance, Kaarin Taipale, former
Chair of ICLEI, Finland, Manuel Dengo, DESA, CSD Chair Børge Brende,
Secretariat, Miloon Kothary, Special Rapporteur on Adequate
Housing, UNCHR, India, Jamie Barthram, Coordinator of the
Water, Sanitation and Health Programme, WHO
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| Delegates from
Iran, Brazil and Australia |
Partnership
Fair: Partnership for Clean Fuels and Vehicles: Promoting better
air quality in developing countries Panelists
discussed history and objectives, current projects, future
activities and lessons learned |
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Jane
Metcalfe, US Environmental Protection Agency (above
left), Miriam Lev-On, International Petroleum
Industry, Environmental Conservation Association, and Rich
Kassel, Natural Resources Defense Council |
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Rich
Kassel, Natural Resources Defense Council and Tim
Kasten, UNEP |
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Learning
Center: New Integrated Water Resource Management
Concepts including Non-Conventional
Water
Resources such
as Desalination--by the Ecological Management
Foundation |
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Andrew
Speers, Option Assessment, Systems for
Circumstances, IWA |
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Side Event: Achieving the Millennium Development
Goals on Water and Sanitation: Unheard Voices of
Women--organized by UN-HABITAT |
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| Nesreen
Berwari, Minister for Municipalities and Public
Works, Iraq, and UN-HABITAT Executive Director
Anna Tibaijuka |
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| Presentation
of HABITAT Scroll of Honor by UN-HABITAT Executive
Director Anna Tibaijuka to Margaret Catley-Carlson, Chair, Global Water Partnership (left)
and Nesreen Berwari, Minister for Municipalities
and Public Works, Iraq
Listen
to remarks from: Nesreen
Berwari and Margaret
Catley-Carlson after their acceptance of
the awards
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Listen to presentations from:
Kamla
Chowdhry, Vidram Sarabhai
Foundation, India, Bience
Gawanas, Commissioner, African
Union, Addis Ababa, Diana
Negroponte, Expert in Low Income
Housing, and Maria
Mutagamba, Minister for Water,
Uganda (bottom right) |
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Relevant Links:
 CSD-12
homepage
Official
Programme
Partnerships
Fair
Learning
Center
Side
Events
CSD-12
Documents
CSD-12
Documents
Think
Pieces on Water, Sanitation and Human Settlements: These papers seek to
stimulate the debate on key areas related to the current CSD session's
thematic cluster. The "think pieces" can be accessed at:
http://www.dep.no/md/engelsk/csd12/topics/022021-990432/
Webpage
for CSD-12 Chair and Norway's Environment Minister Børge Brende:
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ENB Coverage of related meetings:
CSD
Briefing Note from March 22, 2004
CSD
Briefing Note from February 25, 2004
CSD
Briefing Note from January 23, 2004
CSD
Briefing Note from October 3, 2003
ENB Coverage of the CSD-12 Regional Implementation Meetings:
UNECE
First Regional Implementation Forum
15 - 16 January 2004; Geneva, Switzerland
CSD-12
Regional Implementation Meeting - UNECA
8-13 December 2003; Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
CSD-12
Regional Implementation Meeting - UNESCAP
27-28 October 2003, Bangkok, Thailand
CSD-12
Regional Implementation Meeting - UNESCWA
19-21 October 2003, Cairo, Egypt
ENB
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