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The Collected Documents of the Group of 77 Environment and Sustainable Development

Author: Mourad Ahmia
Publisher: Oxford University Press USA
ISBN: 9780199757381
Published In: January 2012
Format: Hardback , 692 pages
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Useful reference source for policy makers, academia, and the public at large
Compiled and edited by a respected, longstanding United Nations official
A compilation of major agreements and achievements, that proves to be crucial in spreading public awareness and greater understanding of the importance of the policies and documentation relating to the Group of 77's stance on environmental and sustainable development

The volumes included in The Collected Documents of The Group of 77 at the United Nations provide a chronological record of events and documents of the Group of 77 since its creation in 1963. The Fourth Volume brings together for the first time a selection of policy statements, common position papers and other major documents by the Group of 77 relating to environment and sustainable development.

Readership: Those interested in public international law and policy makers.

Foreword by His Excellency Mr. Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
President of the Federative Republic of Brazil
Preface by the Editor
Chapter - I: The Origins of the Group of 77
Chapter - II: From Environmental Protection to Sustainable Development
Chapter - III: The Group of 77 and Major United Nations Conferences on Environment and Development
I - UN Conference on Environment and Development, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 3 - 14 June
1992 (The Earth Summit)
II - Global Conference on the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States
(SIDS), Bridgetown, Barbados, 25 April - 6 May 1994
III - Second UN Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat II), Istanbul, Turkey, 3 - 14
June 1996
Chapter - IV: The Group of 77 and the Global Environmental Governance and Sustainable Development

Edited by Mourad Ahmia, Executive Secretary of the Group of 77, United Nations, United Nations

Editor: Dr. Mourad Ahmia is a career diplomat, who has been affiliated with the Group of 77 and the United Nations in New York since 1990. He is currently the Executive Secretary of the Group of 77 in New York. Previously, he served as Algeria's delegate to the United Nations in New York in charge of economic affairs.