The biggest international event this year is the UN Conference on Sustainable Development or Rio+20 on 20-22June. It was meant to celebrate the Earth Summit of 1992, to reaffirm the political commitments made then, and to come up with up-to-date action plans to counter the crises which have become much more serious than 20 years ago.
Right here in Rio de Janeiro, I am attending this summit and hope to absorb as much knowledge as possible. On the first day of 3rd Preparatory Meeting of UNCSD, I participated the opening ceremony and sat at the Malaysian Delegate chair (behind the seat) and hoping to meet the delegation. The Malaysian delegation consists of 8 people headed by Mr. Yogeesvaran, the deputy director (MAKRO) of Economic Planning Unit under PM's office, followed by Mr. Azhar Noraini the director of Environment and Natural Resources Economy Section, Mdm Arsulaiha, Mr. Chandran Sundaraj from Policy Planning and International Relations Division of Ministry of Energy, Green Technology and Water (KeTTHA), Mr Kamal (perhaps from MoAgriculture) and others. The delegation was not big. It's most probably that the minister of KeTTHA, YB Dato Sri Peter Chin Fah Kui 'will come to attend the conference on 19th onwards. Basically, Malaysian position on SDGs will always be following G77.
On the other hands, I introduced myself to Mr. Martin Khor, the Executive Director of South Centre whom I am sure, is a very influential, experienced and knowledgable person in the UN and NGO. Talking about the policies and the UN negotiation process, Mr. Chandran admited that the delegation from NGO are more expertise than the government to some extend, the ministry should be humble and have more interaction and coorperation with the NGOs, such as inviting them to participate in the negotiation process.
So, I was welcomed by the Malaysian delegation, Pn Arsulaiha was the person I have spoken to and I thought we´re going to spend a great time at Rio+20!
Alright, due to time constraint, I couldn´t write too much here, the travel from Copacabana to RioCentro took 2 hours if there´re peak hours in the city. I wish to update more. Please, allow me to share more of my experience in the coming days!
To end today´s blog, I hereby share with you the outcome of the 3rd Preparatory Meetings (official) which was updated from the Rio+20 google groups:
[Brazil has taken the Presidency of the conference, but only 37% of the the text is agreed. (Target was min. 60%)
They will present a consolidated text tomorrow at 12 midday at the plenary which all should be able to attend. There will be no other official business until midday.
Brazil said that they will conduct the sessions in the same manner as prep-com and major groups -should- be able to engage.
Enjoy your lie in guys, you will need it to work hard for the rest of the conference.
Brazil aim to agree the entire text by the 19th July so we have hard work against us.]
Right here in Rio de Janeiro, I am attending this summit and hope to absorb as much knowledge as possible. On the first day of 3rd Preparatory Meeting of UNCSD, I participated the opening ceremony and sat at the Malaysian Delegate chair (behind the seat) and hoping to meet the delegation. The Malaysian delegation consists of 8 people headed by Mr. Yogeesvaran, the deputy director (MAKRO) of Economic Planning Unit under PM's office, followed by Mr. Azhar Noraini the director of Environment and Natural Resources Economy Section, Mdm Arsulaiha, Mr. Chandran Sundaraj from Policy Planning and International Relations Division of Ministry of Energy, Green Technology and Water (KeTTHA), Mr Kamal (perhaps from MoAgriculture) and others. The delegation was not big. It's most probably that the minister of KeTTHA, YB Dato Sri Peter Chin Fah Kui 'will come to attend the conference on 19th onwards. Basically, Malaysian position on SDGs will always be following G77.
On the other hands, I introduced myself to Mr. Martin Khor, the Executive Director of South Centre whom I am sure, is a very influential, experienced and knowledgable person in the UN and NGO. Talking about the policies and the UN negotiation process, Mr. Chandran admited that the delegation from NGO are more expertise than the government to some extend, the ministry should be humble and have more interaction and coorperation with the NGOs, such as inviting them to participate in the negotiation process.
So, I was welcomed by the Malaysian delegation, Pn Arsulaiha was the person I have spoken to and I thought we´re going to spend a great time at Rio+20!
Alright, due to time constraint, I couldn´t write too much here, the travel from Copacabana to RioCentro took 2 hours if there´re peak hours in the city. I wish to update more. Please, allow me to share more of my experience in the coming days!
To end today´s blog, I hereby share with you the outcome of the 3rd Preparatory Meetings (official) which was updated from the Rio+20 google groups:
[Brazil has taken the Presidency of the conference, but only 37% of the the text is agreed. (Target was min. 60%)
They will present a consolidated text tomorrow at 12 midday at the plenary which all should be able to attend. There will be no other official business until midday.
Brazil said that they will conduct the sessions in the same manner as prep-com and major groups -should- be able to engage.
Enjoy your lie in guys, you will need it to work hard for the rest of the conference.
Brazil aim to agree the entire text by the 19th July so we have hard work against us.]
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