[ABEL MUSUMALI]

Rio De Janeiro, 20^th June, 2012

Zambia Needs Technology to Achieve Sustainable Development

His Excellency the President of the Republic of Zambia Mr Michael Chilufya Sata called on the International community to facilitate transfer of technology to developing countries such as Zambia as opposed to financial aid. Speaking at an event organised by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Mr Sata stressed that Zambia has abundant natural resources, particularly the forests, which have remained largely unexploited for wealth creation and poverty reduction. According to His Excellency the President, the missing link was technology. He further added that for a country endowed with such resources and given the size of the country proportionate to the size of the population, it was unfortunate that so many people in Zambia were still unemployment. In his closing, the President invited the world to the World Tourism Conference scheduled to take place in August 2013 in Livingstone to be co-hosted by the Governments of Zambia and Zimbabwe, stating that VISA requirements will be waived.

The side event at Rio+20 dubbed “beyond GDP”, was designed to contribute to the outcomes of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD) by making the case for measuring progress through a people-cantered approach based on protecting and promoting human capabilities, choices, and freedoms. Measurement facilitates the achievement of sustainable progress. Informed by this emphasis on human development and sustainability, the Rio event examined how the Human Development family of Indices can be broadened to incorporate sustainability considerations, in particular the environment, and map out the sustainable future we all want.

ENDS

ABEL

[ABEL MUSUMALI]

Greetings from Rio.


http://www.guardian.co.uk/sustainable-business/rio-20-earth-summit-diary-21-june

Rio+20: Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff during the Opening Ceremony of the Brazilian Pavilion. Photograph: Buda Mendes/Getty Images
The Rio+20 we don't want

Thursday June 21 15.45

A group of civil society organisations has written a letter to the UN and Rio +20 delegates outlining their opposition to the outline agreement. Here is what it says:

The Future We Want is not to be found in the document that bears this name.
The Future We Want is not what resulted from the Rio +20 negotiation process.

The future that we want has commitment and action, not just promises. It has the urgency needed to reverse the social, environmental and economic crisis, not postpone it. It has cooperation and is in tune with civil society and its aspirations, and not just the comfortable position of governments.

None of these can be found in the 283 paragraphs of the official document that will be the legacy of this Conference. The document entitled The Future We Want is mediocre and falls far short of the spirit and the advances made over the years since Rio-92. It even falls far short of the importance and urgency of the issues addressed. Fragile and generic agendas for future negotiations do not guarantee results.

Rio +20 will go into History as the UN conference that offered global society a outcome marked by serious omissions. It endangers the preservation and social and environmental resilience of the planet, as well as any guarantee of acquired human rights for present and future generations.

For all these reasons, we, as many civil society groups and individuals, register our profound disappointment with the heads of State, under whose guidance and orders the negotiators worked, and we state that we do not condone or endorse this document.

In RIO. cell; +55-21-84093450
ABEL MUSUMALI

[ABEL MUSUMALI]

[Clarence Muzyamba]

THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH ABEL,

WE ARE BENEFITTING FROM YOUR PRESENCE THERE,

GREETINGS FROM YVE ZAMBIA TEAM.

CLARENCE MOONDE MUZYAMBA

YVE ZAMBIA DIRECTOR

0966-404322

0977-404322

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