The First Inter-American Meeting of Ministers and High-Level Authorities on Sustainable Development took place on December 4-5, 2006 in Santa Cruz, Bolivia. The meeting Declaration is available for download in English, French , Portuguese, and Spanish.

 

The meeting identified and advanced concrete partnerships at the regional and hemispheric level to integrate environmental considerations into development, poverty alleviation, social and economic policies. The Bolivia meeting took into account progress in implementing sustainable development, including, inter alia, the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, the 1996 Santa Cruz Summit on Sustainable Development, and the 2002 Johannesburg UN Conference on Sustainable Development. 

 

The meeting identified specific opportunities for cooperation among OAS member states in integrating environmental management within core economic development, poverty alleviation and related goals.  Environmental ministers and/or senior officials will be the main constituency of the meeting.

In order to achieve MDG’s policy objective to build “a comprehensive approach and a coordinated strategy, tackling many problems simultaneously across a broad front” the meeting identified practical, replicable project and policy lessons integrating the three pillars of sustainable development that is, economic development, social issues and environmental protection. 

The meeting examined three areas:

Integrated Water-Resource Management; More..

Risk sharing and Risk transfer arrangements of Natural Disasters; More...

Sustainable Agriculture, Sustainable Forestry and Tourism. More...

 

Latest New

Environment Ministers approve Declaration of Santa Cruz at the First Inter-American Meeting of Ministers and High Level Authorities on Sustainable Development Press Release

OAS Assistant Secretary General Albert Ramdin Opens First Inter-American Meeting of Ministers and High Level Authorities of Sustainable Development, Santa Cruz de la Sierra, BoliviaPress Release| Speech

Civil Society and Indigenous Peoples participation in the Ministerial Meeting

Documents

 Ministerial Meeting Report

 

DECLARATION OF SANTA CRUZ + 10  French  | Portuguese

 

Inter-American Program on Sustainable Development

 

  Information Bulletin

 

Work Schedule of the Ministerial   

 

Summary of Preparatory Workshops

 

Fourth Summit of Americas Sustainable Development References | Declaration  | Action Plan

Meetings

December, 3 2006: Roundtable with Civil Society and Indigenous Peoples Representatives More ..

 

December, 3 2006: Meeting on   "Strengthening Environmental Law and Enforcement in the Americas" More ..

 

December, 3 2006: Meeting of the  Inter-American Network for Disaster Mitigation More ..

 

December, 3 2006: Meeting with Biodiversity Experts More ..

 

November  20, 2006: Preparatory meeting of experts of the First Inter-American Meeting of Ministers and High-Level Authorities on Sustainable Development Photos more..

 

Private sector Panel of Experts on Public-Private Partnerships for Sustainable Development in the Americas. Background| Agenda

 Registration Form | Final Report

 

Sustainable Development and Environment Ministerial and Senior Official Meetings

Working Group on

Sustainable Development

 Work Schedule of the Working Group on Sustainable Development and Environment

Contact us

Department of Sustainable

Development

Phone: +(202) 458-3567

Fax: +(202) 458-3560

 

 

 

This page was last updated on Monday February 25, 2008.