CSD 18 - COMMISSION ON SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT |
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Wednesday, 12 May 2010
Press Release
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10:00 - 13:00 High-level segment
[Webcast: Archived Video - English: 2 hours and 56 minutes ]
[Webcast: Archived Video - Original Language: 2 hours and 56 minutes ] |
Opening remarks by the Chairperson of the 18th Session of the CSD
H.E. Dr. Luis Alberto Ferraté Felice
Minister of the Environment and Natural Resources of Guatemala
[ Video - English ] [ Video - Spanish ] |
Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations
H.E. Dr. Asha-Rose Migiro
[ Video - English ] |
President of ECOSOC
H.E. Mr. Hamidon Ali
Ambassador, Permanent Representative of Malaysia to the United Nations
[ Video - English ] |
Vice-President of the General Assembly
Mr. ? (on behalf of the President of the sixty-fourth session of the United Nations General Assembly, H.E. Dr. Ali Abdussalam Treki)
[ Video - English ] |
Chairperson of the 17th Session of the CSD
H.E. Ms. Gerda Verburg
Minister of Agriculture and Food Quality of the Netherlands
[ Video - English ] |
International Panel for Sustainable Resource Management
Mr. Ernst Ulrich von Weizsacker
Co-Chair
[ Video - English ] |
IUCN
Mr. Ashok Koshla
Director-General
[ Video - English ] |
Statements by political groups and major groups |
Yemen (on behalf of the Group of 77 and China)
[ Video - English ] |
European Union
[ Video - English ] |
Nepal (on behalf of the group of the least developed countries)
[ Video - English ] |
Chile (on behalf of the Rio Group)
[ Video - English ] [ Video - Spanish ] |
Lebanon (on behalf of the Arabic Group)
[ Video - English ] [ Video - Arabic ] |
Statements by individual countries |
Spain
[ Video - English ] [ Video - Spanish ] |
Italy
[ Video - English ] |
Gabon
[ Video - English ] [ Video - French ] |
South Africa
[ Video - English ] |
Ireland
[ Video - English ] |
Ghana
[ Video - English ] |
Nigeria
[ Video - English ] |
Sweden
[ Video - English ] |
Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)
[ Video - English ] [ Video - Spanish ] |
Mozambique
[ Video - English ] |
Japan
[ Video - English ] |
Egypt
[ Video - English ] [ Video - Arabic ] |
Moldova
[ Video - English ] [ Video - Russian ] |
Saudi Arabia
[ Video - English ] [ Video - Arabic ] |
Namibia
[ Video - English ] |
India
[ Video - English ] |
3:00pm - 6:00pm Round Table 1
- Sustainable production and consumption patterns
[Webcast: Archived Video - English: 3 hours and 4 minutes ]
[Webcast: Archived Video - Original Language: 3 hours and 4 minutes ]
The video - not the audio - during the first minute of the meeting is coming from a different room |
Panellists:
- Mr. Achim Steiner, Executive Director, UNEP
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- Mr. Ernst Ulrich von Weizsacker, Co-Chair, International panel for Sustainable Resource Management
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- Dr. Kaarin Taipale, Chair of the Marrakech Task Force on Sustainable Building and Construction
[ Video - English ]
- Mr. Mohan Munasinghe, Chairman, Munasinghe Institute for Development, Sri Lanka and Director-General of Sustainable Consumption Institute, University of Manchester
[ Video - English ]
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3:00pm - 6:00pm Round Table 2
- Managing mining for sustainable development
[Webcast: Archived Video - English: 2 hours and 30 minutes ]
[Webcast: Archived Video - Original Language: 2 hours and 30 minutes ] |
Panellists:
- Mr. Samuel J. Spiegel, Department of Geography University of Cambridge
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- Ms. Kathryu McPhail, Senior Program Director, ICMM
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- Dr. Roderick G. Eggert, Professor and Director of the Division of Economics and Business, Coloado School of Mines
[ Video - English ]
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