Examples of using Rio commitments in English and their translations into Russian
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Contribution to the 1997 review of progress in the implementation of the rio commitments.
Our efforts to collaborate on Rio commitments have often been hindered by sterile debates about relative gains.
Role of the Board in the 1997 review of progress in the implementation of the Rio Commitments.
Will the two worlds honour the Rio commitments and emerge from this meeting with a renewed sense of urgency and, indeed, move from words to deeds?
Along the same lines, Cape Verde faces various constraints in implementing the Rio commitments.
The successful realization of the Rio commitments also necessitates a higher degree of coordination of activities at national, regional and international levels.
This is compounded by the harmful effects of the decline in official development assistance in spite of the Rio commitments.
Secondly, we believe that the current exercise of evaluating the implementation of the Rio commitments and of subsequent development conferences requires an integrated approach.
Report of the High-level Advisory Board on Sustainable Development for the 1997 review of the Rio commitments.
We have come to this special session to renew our Rio commitments and to keep faith with those whose future depends on the wisdom of our choices and the results we deliver.
The Board agreed to make a contribution to the 1997 review of progress achieved in the implementation of the Rio Commitments, 1/ including the following.
To boost implementation of the Rio commitments through such means as the identification of innovative approaches to cooperation and financial assistance, and through concrete proposals for action;
As far as achievements were concerned, there had no doubt been considerable work at the institutional level on translating several of the Rio commitments and agreements into reality.
In order to implement the Rio commitments, Nepal had ratified the framework convention on climate change, the Convention on Biological Diversity and the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification.
In carrying out its mandate,the Commission established itself as a key intergovernmental forum for follow-up to UNCED and implementation of the Rio commitments.
All sides- Governments, international institutions andsocial groups- are again challenged to honour the Rio commitments and show more determination and responsibility on the environment.
My delegation welcomes the recent restructuring andreplenishment of the Global Environmental Facility as a positive step towards the fulfilment of some of the Rio commitments.
I sincerely hope that in the next five years, we will be able to accelerate anddeepen the process of the implementation of the Rio commitments at the national and world levels for the welfare of our countries and of the heirs of this planet.
The commitments made in chapter 26 of Agenda 21, entitled"Recognizing and strengthening the role of indigenous people and their communities", as well as other Rio commitments are recognized.
They were that the special session should promote the Rio commitments through concrete proposals for action and revitalize and energize commitments to the concept of sustainable development.
The Administrative Committee on Coordination attaches the greatest importance to the improvement of field-level implementation of the Rio commitments, through a coordinated approach at the country level.
The Johannesburg Summit had reaffirmed the Rio commitments and set targets in fundamental areas such as sanitation, biodiversity, fish stocks, health, environmental hazards and renewable energy.
The political and financial marginalization of the United Nations will weaken not only its ability to ensure implementation of the Rio commitments, but the ability of other summits as well.
While these trends cannot be attributed specifically to the Rio process, the Rio commitments were part of a continuing trend towards focusing greater attention on poverty and giving it higher priority in development policies.
More generally, members of the Board emphasized the need to identify impediments to sustainable development and implementation of the Rio Commitments, 1/ and to propose ways to overcome those impediments.
It was, moreover, regrettable that while the Rio commitments concerning financial resources, trade and the transfer of environmentally sound technologies had not materialized, the developing countries were being subjected to restrictive trade and investment policies.
The Board would continue to address questions of sustainable energy and transportation at its future sessions andin its contribution to the 1997 review of progress on the Rio Commitments.
Even though Governments bear the main responsibility for implementing Agenda 21 and the Rio commitments, all groups in society must be able to take an active part in the process of promoting sustainable development, and thus also commit themselves to change.
Fourth, the Commission on Sustainable Development must provide for better follow-up in these two areas in particular,since they determine any real progress regarding implementation of the Rio commitments.
The Barbados Global Conference on the Sustainable Development ofSmall Island Developing States, as the first test of the international community's attachment to the Rio commitments, focused on the acute problems that small island developing States are confronted with.