Ghana
Ghana associates itself with the statement already made by the Group of
77 and China and believes that sustainable development remains the key
to attaining the Millennium Development Goals and that, the Rio+20
Conference should endeavour to balance the three pillars of sustainable
development i.e. economic development, social development and
environmental protection.
A green economy needs to be understood in the context of sustainable
development and consistent with the Rio principles.
Institutional framework for sustainable development will ensure that
political commitment is renewed and efforts redoubled so that institutions
such as the UNEP, and other UN specialized bodies involved in the
implementation of the sustainable development agenda within the United
Nations system would become more efficient and effective, through
improved synergies and the provision of adequate resources.
Ghana sees both themes as bedfellows that should be promoted
concurrently. To attain a green economy you need the right structures in
place.
Ghana has began putting in place the right structures while at the same
time promoting the attainment of a green growth plan for the economy.
Already, a bus rapid transit has been initiated and public transport has
become government priority. Renewable energy programmes, water and
land management plans etc are all combined efforts by our government at
achieving the green economy while strengthening the existing structures
and building some new ones as well
Ghana is very much concerned with inadequate preparations for
the conference. The preparations in our view are not in-depth
enough and we think that informal and intersessional meetings
should show more commitment towards discussing and negotiating
for a wider range of issues covered by the two conference themes.
Developing countries such as Ghana need assistance to undertake
in-country preparatory processes involving a wide range of
stakeholders. There is need to carry out country assessments,
update country profiles on the Agenda 21 themes to make the
Prepcom 3 in particular scheduled for 2012 more outcome oriented.
Currently, the spirit is weak and the pace is too slow when one
compares preparations for this summit to the World Summit on
Sustainable Development of 2002.
The lack lustre approach signals that Rio+20 may after all not really
address the deficits and the emerging issues of our world as we
would expect it to do.
We call for a total re -invigoration of preparations.
Thank you.
77 and China and believes that sustainable development remains the key
to attaining the Millennium Development Goals and that, the Rio+20
Conference should endeavour to balance the three pillars of sustainable
development i.e. economic development, social development and
environmental protection.
A green economy needs to be understood in the context of sustainable
development and consistent with the Rio principles.
Institutional framework for sustainable development will ensure that
political commitment is renewed and efforts redoubled so that institutions
such as the UNEP, and other UN specialized bodies involved in the
implementation of the sustainable development agenda within the United
Nations system would become more efficient and effective, through
improved synergies and the provision of adequate resources.
Ghana sees both themes as bedfellows that should be promoted
concurrently. To attain a green economy you need the right structures in
place.
Ghana has began putting in place the right structures while at the same
time promoting the attainment of a green growth plan for the economy.
Already, a bus rapid transit has been initiated and public transport has
become government priority. Renewable energy programmes, water and
land management plans etc are all combined efforts by our government at
achieving the green economy while strengthening the existing structures
and building some new ones as well
Ghana is very much concerned with inadequate preparations for
the conference. The preparations in our view are not in-depth
enough and we think that informal and intersessional meetings
should show more commitment towards discussing and negotiating
for a wider range of issues covered by the two conference themes.
Developing countries such as Ghana need assistance to undertake
in-country preparatory processes involving a wide range of
stakeholders. There is need to carry out country assessments,
update country profiles on the Agenda 21 themes to make the
Prepcom 3 in particular scheduled for 2012 more outcome oriented.
Currently, the spirit is weak and the pace is too slow when one
compares preparations for this summit to the World Summit on
Sustainable Development of 2002.
The lack lustre approach signals that Rio+20 may after all not really
address the deficits and the emerging issues of our world as we
would expect it to do.
We call for a total re -invigoration of preparations.
Thank you.
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