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ecommendations
7.1. To reinfor
einforce the consolidated positions
from Rio - 92
a) To ratify the designated commitment of 0.7% of GDP
from industrialised countries to developmental
assistance, as approved in Agenda 21.
b) To accomplish the commitments within the Doha
Declaration, and in the Monterrey Consensus to assure
the access to the market and financial resources
requested to reach the goals of sustainable
development, particularly in support to the efforts of
developing countries.
c) To guide the creation of new financial mechanisms,
including the cancellation of the developing countries
debt, in particular, of less developed countries, and the
creation of a contingency fund to face natural disasters.
d) To fully apply the common responsibility principle. This
should be accomplished, however, differentiated
according to the state, and the respect to the sovereign
right of each country on their natural resources.
e) To reiterate the commitment with the prevention
principal according to the definition that is stated in
the Rio Declaration, as a key component of the
environmental policy, in order to safeguard our natural
and social patrimony.
f) To grant priority to the interests of Caribbean countries,
especially in execution to the Barbados Action Plan.
g) To reinforce the participation of the various nongovernmental
agents, and the transparency in the
processes of decision taking, strengthening initiatives
such as: Sustainable Development National Councils
and the formulation of national and local Agendas 21.
h) To promote the construction of a new ethical practice
for sustainable development, which considers the
processes developed to the moment, as it is the case
of the “ Earth Letter”.
i) To implement the Guidelines on Sustainable
Consumption approved by the United Nations
Commission on Sustainable Development in 1999.
7.2. Operational Guidelines
The programs and projects proposed by the Forum of
Environment Ministers of Latin America and the Caribbean,
to face the challenges of sustainable development, within
an ethical framework, should assist the operational
guidelines as presented below.
a) To promote sustainable economic growth, and the
definition of mechanisms and Instruments to face
new instability fronts, propitiating the capacity of
internal agreement and private capital economy;
b) To support the implementation of public policies
towards poverty reduction, and social differences, job
generation and the promotion of sustainable
development with justice, equity and social inclusion;
c) To execute integrated human health and
environmental measures to assure that the
population’s health and welfare is increasingly
recognised, and systematically translated into policies
and programs;
d) To point out bonds between unsustainable
consumption patterns and the internalisation of
production patterns, in particular towards the growing
importance of consumers’ and companies’ awareness
in applying concepts of social and environmental
responsibility;
e) To develop new sustainable competitiveness bases for
the productive structure of countries of the region, with
the purpose of expanding their inclusion in the world
economy, proposing orientation strategies for the
effective opening of foreign markets to all developed
countries, as a condition for the objective of sustainable
development in the area;
f) To create or to strengthen economic, fiscal and
tributary tools for the promotion of sustainable
development;
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