South Africa
South Africa fully supports and aligns with the statement made by Pakistan on behalf of G77 and
China. Sustainable economic growth is the developing world?s gateway to significantly
increasing business and employment opportunities, eradicating extreme poverty and improving
quality of life. Although the developing world have over the past decades implemented robust
industrial development policies as a key element of our national Sustainable Development
strategies, our endeavours face increasing trade constraints such as tariff and technical barriers
and intellectual property rights.
POLICY OPTIONS
Our focus at CSD 15 is to seek policy options that facilitate increased industrial and services
capacity, which requires investment in infrastructure, technological innovation and education to
enhance skills and knowledge to facilitate diversification and international market access.
High-impact and clean industrial development is required to meet our poverty challenges in a
sustainable way. Small and medium enterprises, in particular enterprises facilitating economic
participation of women and youth, need major resource injections to accelerate solutions for
more sustainable beneficiation. Improved access to solutions for resource and energy efficiency
and investment in renewable energy would support sustainable industrial development and open
up opportunities for the further development of small and medium enterprises to eradicate
poverty.
Other policy options include the need for support for:
? Programmes to improve and strengthen supporting transport, telecommunications and
energy infrastructure, systems and services
? Efforts towards regional industrial integration, particularly on the African continent
within the NEPAD framework, and
? Building capacity to grow South-South trade.
CONCLUSION
At the domestic level, developing countries strive to turn around skills shortages, weak transport,
telecommunications, energy and services systems that protract the unsustainable spiral of high
input costs and limited access to advanced solutions.
In particular, policy options need to overcome factors that impede the adoption of cleaner
production and consumption patterns, which are central to achieving the sustainable development
goals outlined in Agenda 21 and the Johannesburg Plan of Implementation.
China. Sustainable economic growth is the developing world?s gateway to significantly
increasing business and employment opportunities, eradicating extreme poverty and improving
quality of life. Although the developing world have over the past decades implemented robust
industrial development policies as a key element of our national Sustainable Development
strategies, our endeavours face increasing trade constraints such as tariff and technical barriers
and intellectual property rights.
POLICY OPTIONS
Our focus at CSD 15 is to seek policy options that facilitate increased industrial and services
capacity, which requires investment in infrastructure, technological innovation and education to
enhance skills and knowledge to facilitate diversification and international market access.
High-impact and clean industrial development is required to meet our poverty challenges in a
sustainable way. Small and medium enterprises, in particular enterprises facilitating economic
participation of women and youth, need major resource injections to accelerate solutions for
more sustainable beneficiation. Improved access to solutions for resource and energy efficiency
and investment in renewable energy would support sustainable industrial development and open
up opportunities for the further development of small and medium enterprises to eradicate
poverty.
Other policy options include the need for support for:
? Programmes to improve and strengthen supporting transport, telecommunications and
energy infrastructure, systems and services
? Efforts towards regional industrial integration, particularly on the African continent
within the NEPAD framework, and
? Building capacity to grow South-South trade.
CONCLUSION
At the domestic level, developing countries strive to turn around skills shortages, weak transport,
telecommunications, energy and services systems that protract the unsustainable spiral of high
input costs and limited access to advanced solutions.
In particular, policy options need to overcome factors that impede the adoption of cleaner
production and consumption patterns, which are central to achieving the sustainable development
goals outlined in Agenda 21 and the Johannesburg Plan of Implementation.
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