Environment
Contributors:
• Alfred Ralifo aralifo@wwfpacific.org (WWF)
• Isis Alvarez isis.alvarez@globalforestcoalition.org Global Forest
Coalition, Women’s Major Group
• Grace Trueman gtrueman@populationinstitute.org
• Aashish Khullar aashish.khullar@childrenyouth.org
• Noelene Nabulivou, DIVA for Equality, DAWN, Pacific Partnerships on
Gender, Climate Change and Sustainable
Development noelenen@gmail.com
• Evelyn Ugbe, Women Environmental programme (WEP)
eveofprague@gmail.com,wep2002@hotmail.com
• Rosanna Marie Neil rneil@swinitiative.com
• Roberto Mukaro Borrero, roberto@treatycouncil.org International
Indian Treaty Council, Indigenous Peoples Major Group
• Jouni Nissinen jouni.nissinen@kepa.fi Kepa Finland/ European
Environmental Bureau (EEB), NGO MG
Speaker: Isis Alvarez
Co-facilitators, Distinguished Delegates and colleagues,
Thank you for the opportunity to address the floor. First of all, we strongly
welcome the interventions made by many Member States in the sessions this
week concerning the need to further the integration and recognition of the
interlinkages among the three dimensions of sustainable development
throughout the Preamble and the Declaration. In particular, we agree with the
Group of 77 and China, Brazil, and Iceland to better reflect this integration by
recognizing that the planet’s natural resources underpin human well-being
and economic development. This should be included in para 28, which should
also reference living within planetary boundaries.
While warning against the risk of reopening the discussions around targets,
we recognise efforts for the improvement in the formulation of some of the
revised targets.
We support the member states that called for the inclusion of the revised
target 14c.
We would like to focus on some of the revised targets that are still not fully
consistent with existing international agreements, especially those related to
Goal 15 on ecosystems and biodiversity. We call upon Member States to
ensure that the level of ambition of the Aichi targets be maintained. We are
therefore asking member states, under target 15.1, 15.2, 15.5, to retain the
2020 deadline with increasing efforts through 2030.
Finally, any technical proofing of targets should be in line with human rights,
gender equality, and environmental sustainability. We also call for alignment
with the Rio+20 outcome document, The Future We Want, which in para 49,
affirms the importance of the UNDRIP “in the context of global, regional,
national, and subnational implementation of sustainable development
strategies”, so that indigenous people’s rights to their lands, territories, and
resources are fully recognized and protected.
We look forward to working with Member States and other partners towards
the implementation of this new agenda for Sustainable Development. Thank
you Mr. Co-facilitators. We will be submitting our full statement in writing.
• Alfred Ralifo aralifo@wwfpacific.org (WWF)
• Isis Alvarez isis.alvarez@globalforestcoalition.org Global Forest
Coalition, Women’s Major Group
• Grace Trueman gtrueman@populationinstitute.org
• Aashish Khullar aashish.khullar@childrenyouth.org
• Noelene Nabulivou, DIVA for Equality, DAWN, Pacific Partnerships on
Gender, Climate Change and Sustainable
Development noelenen@gmail.com
• Evelyn Ugbe, Women Environmental programme (WEP)
eveofprague@gmail.com,wep2002@hotmail.com
• Rosanna Marie Neil rneil@swinitiative.com
• Roberto Mukaro Borrero, roberto@treatycouncil.org International
Indian Treaty Council, Indigenous Peoples Major Group
• Jouni Nissinen jouni.nissinen@kepa.fi Kepa Finland/ European
Environmental Bureau (EEB), NGO MG
Speaker: Isis Alvarez
Co-facilitators, Distinguished Delegates and colleagues,
Thank you for the opportunity to address the floor. First of all, we strongly
welcome the interventions made by many Member States in the sessions this
week concerning the need to further the integration and recognition of the
interlinkages among the three dimensions of sustainable development
throughout the Preamble and the Declaration. In particular, we agree with the
Group of 77 and China, Brazil, and Iceland to better reflect this integration by
recognizing that the planet’s natural resources underpin human well-being
and economic development. This should be included in para 28, which should
also reference living within planetary boundaries.
While warning against the risk of reopening the discussions around targets,
we recognise efforts for the improvement in the formulation of some of the
revised targets.
We support the member states that called for the inclusion of the revised
target 14c.
We would like to focus on some of the revised targets that are still not fully
consistent with existing international agreements, especially those related to
Goal 15 on ecosystems and biodiversity. We call upon Member States to
ensure that the level of ambition of the Aichi targets be maintained. We are
therefore asking member states, under target 15.1, 15.2, 15.5, to retain the
2020 deadline with increasing efforts through 2030.
Finally, any technical proofing of targets should be in line with human rights,
gender equality, and environmental sustainability. We also call for alignment
with the Rio+20 outcome document, The Future We Want, which in para 49,
affirms the importance of the UNDRIP “in the context of global, regional,
national, and subnational implementation of sustainable development
strategies”, so that indigenous people’s rights to their lands, territories, and
resources are fully recognized and protected.
We look forward to working with Member States and other partners towards
the implementation of this new agenda for Sustainable Development. Thank
you Mr. Co-facilitators. We will be submitting our full statement in writing.