WORLD SUMMIT ON SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

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WORLD SUMMIT ON SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

• Bongiwe Njobe
• Director General Agriculture

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Introduction

• Overarching theme of the Summit is the link
  between poverty eradication and environmental
  degradation.
• Kofi Annan proposes 5 key areas of particular
  focus
• water, energy, health, agriculture and
  bio-diversity
• (WEHAB )

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WEHAB

• Water
• We should be able to help at least one billion
  people without drinking water and two billion
  without sanitation.
• Energy
• Electricity and other modern energy services
  should reach the more than two billion without
  them, while reducing over-consumption, promoting
  renewable energy and addressing climate change
  through a ratified Kyoto Protocol.

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WEHAB

• Health
• Halt the deaths of three million people each
  year from air pollution, addressing effects of
  toxic and hazardous materials, and lower the
  incidence of malaria and African guinea
  worm-spread through polluted water and poor
  sanitation.
• Agriculture
• Assure protection to two thirds of the worlds
  agricultural lands affected by land degradation
  by reversing it.

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WEHAB

• Biodiversity
• Build a new ethic of global stewardship,
  challenging processes that have destroyed about
  half of the worlds tropical rainforest and
  mangroves, threatened more than two thirds of the
  worlds coral reefs and decimated the planets
  fisheries.

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Challenges

• Finances
• Capacity building
• Changing unsustainable consumption and production
  patterns
• Threatened biodiversity
• Conserving energy and water
• Inspiring local projects that address poverty
• Empowering women and youth
• SMME development
• Governance (transparency)