Desarrollo Sustentable

(VOVworld) - The UN General Assembly launched this September 25 at the headquarters in New York joint discussions that will last a week. Delegates will focus on a number of important issues such aseconomic decline, sustainable development, climate change, terrorism, conflict and military disarmament. In his opening address, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon acknowledged the progress of the worldin reducing half the rate of poor and hungry since 2000, the democratic process in the Arab world, as well as economic growth in Africa, Asia and Latin America.
The Commission on SustainableDevelopment:
focused on the following areas: transport, chemicals, waste management (hazardous and solid waste), mining and the ten-year framework of programs on patterns of consumption and production.defined the rights and duties of states in environmental matters
It addressed issues:
The forest protection
Climate change and biodiversity
Migratory fish stocks
Desertification
The sustainabledevelopment of Small Island States (islands)
at the meeting stated that:
  States shall cooperate in a spirit of global partnership to conserve, protect and restore the health and integrity of theEarth's ecosystem.
- States have the sovereign right to exploit their own resources pursuant to their own environmental policies and, in turn, must ensure that activities within their jurisdiction orcontrol do not cause damage to the environment of other States or of areas beyond national jurisdiction.
- All States and all people shall cooperate in the essential task of eradicating poverty as anindispensable requirement for sustainable development.
- Special attention should be placed on the needs of developing countries, particularly the least developed and those most environmentallyvulnerable.
- States should develop a supportive and open international economic leading to growth and sustainable development of all countries, as well as national law regarding liability and compensation...