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<<Co-Chair Choi-Seok-young (center)
>>Co-Chair Ahmed Ihab Gamaleldin
(center)
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Kimo
Goree, ENB Managing Editor, conducting business before the convening
of the morning session
Pictured
with Thior Ibsen, Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Iceland (left), and
Marjo Numellin, Ministry of the Environment, Finland (right)
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Ambassador
T. Mailand Christensen, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Denmark, speaks with JoAnne DiSano, Director,
UN Division for Sustainable Development
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Ambassador
Julio Mascarenhas, Portugal, and Jill Hanna, European Commission,
coordinate on the Co-Chair's document on finance.
Commenting
on further promotion on international finance for sustainable development,
Portugal, on behalf of the European Union opposed inclusion of a paragraph calling
on CSD-8 to convene an ad hoc intergovernmental panel to
study the lack of progress in fulfilling commitments relating to
finance and technology transfer.
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Stefan Fritz
speaks with the representative of the Philippines
The Philippines
reiterated that the real negotiations on finance will commence at
CSD-8 in April
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Delegates
from Norway and Canada
On
mobilizing domestic financial resources and exploring innovative
mechanisms, Norway proposed reference to augmenting the GEF's
resources at the next replenishment. Canada supported
adding text on the need for transparency in the market economy.
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<<Barbara
Briglia Tavora, Brazil, (center) with Adriana Soto and Mauricio
Baguero, Colombia
Brazil
reminded the Group that work on trade issues was underway in other
way and cautioned against prejudging the outcomes of that work
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<<CSD-8
Vice-Chair Patrick McDonnell, Ireland (left) with ENB writer Peter
Doran
>>CSD-8
Vice-Chair Zvetolyub Basmajiev, Bulgaria
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The
European Union consults on the Co-Chair's texts
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