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g) To stimulate the adoption by the governments and by
the productive sector, of voluntary tools (certificates,
ISO 14,000, certificates for tourist sustainability, etc.),
applicable to the process of sustainable development;
h) To begin or to continue the processes of environmental
and natural resource appreciation, for the use of
comparative advantages in the area, incorporating
indicators regarding liabilities and environmental
assets, in order to include them in the national
legislation systems;
i) To support regional actions and sub-regional efforts,
in particular the Caribbean (SIDS) , the Amazonian
countries (TCA), the Andean Area (CAN), “Mercosul”
and Central America (ALIDES);
j) To strengthen the regional, sub-regional and national
institutions, as well as the sub-national levels, for the
instrumentation, continuation and monitoring of
policies, programs and resulting projects from this
initiative;
k) To formulate strategies of incorporation, transfer and
technological development, which shall be supported
through the mobilisation and expansion of resources
from existing financial institutions;
l) To perfect and to adapt the systems of existing
sustainability indicators or to build new systems of
indicators to meet social, economic or political
particularities of the area;
m) To develop actions of South-South co-operation, which
may favour the efforts, strengths and opportunities
of countries in development, in regards to
sustainability development and to the people of the
region;
n) To promote the development of sui generis
methodology in regard to traditional knowledge
protection, based on tools and mechanisms of
distinct nature; to see that current intellectual
property systems consider the association of
traditional knowledge and biological diversity in the
evolution of patent requests and other related
rights.
8 GUIDING GOALS AND INDICATIVE
PURPOSES
The construction of the mentioned regional consensus
passes through the implementation of some goals
presented as following, whose definition is result of the
same understanding effort undertaken by the Environment
Ministers Forum.
8.1. Biological Diversity
a) The increase of arboreal surface
to assure the sustainable management of forest
resources of the area, significantly reducing the current
deforestation rates.
b) Territory according to protected areas
to significantly increase the surface of the regional
territory according to protection areas, considering in
its definition, transition zones and biological corridors.
c) Genetic resources-Equal Benefit Distribution
to adopt regulation frameworks for access to genetic
resources, as well as fair and equal participation in
benefits derived from them, compatible with the
Agreement on Biological Diversity.
8.2. Water Resour
esource ce Administration
a) Water Basin Management
to improve and to strengthen the institutionalisation
of the integrated management of water basins and
subsoil waters among others, through the
establishment of water basin committees, with the
participation of government, civil society, and the
private sector and all involved agents.
b) Marine-coastal Management and its Resources
to implement environmental, national and regional
action plans for the integrated management of the
coasts, with particular attention to the small insular
states in development.
c) Better quality of Terrestrial Waters
to improve the quality of effluents and to reduce the
contaminating discharges on surface water bodies and
subsoil ones, as well as on the coastal area.
recommendations
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