58. As representative of the Government Experts Council, Mr. Luciano Ramírez, member from the government of Panama, described its objectives, mission, functions and structure. The Council was created at the first meeting in Buenos Aires (2003) and later approved by the Forum of Ministers, at the meeting in Panama in 2004. Its essential missions are, among others: to be the Forum consultant organism on SCP; to identify the priority activities on SCP in the countries of the area; to promote the development of national and regional strategies on SCP; to supervise and evaluate the activities within the framework of the Regional Strategy and National Strategies on SCP.
59. The Council is governed by an Executive Committee composed of four sub regional coordinators, and supported by UNEP Regional Office, as the Secretariat. The Executive Committee was elected at the last meeting of the Council in Nicaragua and is now constituted by Nicaragua for Mesoamerica; Trinidad and Tobago, for the Caribbean; Peru for The Andes; and Argentina for the Southern Tip. According to the established procedures to put to work the Council, the Executive Committee must be renewed at each meeting. Thus, each sub region elected its respective coordinator to outline the new Executive Committee that will work until the next Council meeting programmed for 2009.
60. After an interesting general discussion about how to strengthen the Council of Experts, the following was agreed upon:
a) The new Executive Committee was composed of by:
i) The Caribbean and Trinidad and Tobago sub region: Ad referendum
ii) The Mesoamerican sub region: Panama as the head and the Dominican Republic as substitute.
iii) The Andes sub region: Ecuador
iv) The Southern Tip sub region: Brazil
b) The Executive Committee members will later elect its President
c) Meetings will be held every two years, extended to the Council of Government Experts on SCP and including, among others: NGO’s, academia, companies, labor unions, the cleaner production center network, and government representatives.
d) The V Meeting of the Council will be in 2009, some time before the meeting of the Forum of Ministers of the Environment of Latin American and the Caribbean.
e) The Executive Committee will meet at least once a year and must identify new communication mechanisms to guarantee a more fluid relationship among the sub regions. This can be done by means of video conferences or virtual meetings.
f) More frequent sub regional meetings will be promoted.
g) To promote the form of the Information Regional Center on SCP as well as the window to project the topic in the region.
VII. Regional Proposals for the 10 Year
Framework Programme on SCP (10YFP) A. Presentation
61. As mentioned before, The Marrakech Process main objective is to create a proposal for a 10 Year Framework PROGRAMME on SCP (10YFP), which can respond to the call from the World Summit for Sustainable Development (2002) and its Johannesburg Implementation Plan.
62. In order to get a complete idea of the meaning of 10YFP, Adriana Zacarías and Mohan Peck, from UNEP and UNDESA, respectively, mentioned some important factors to be taken into account, and analyzed the following:
a) Framework Programme: This is a framework that must include a select group of key and effective programs for SCP promotion.
b) An International Level Framework as support for national and regional initiatives: This framework’s objective is not to develop national and regional strategies, but to create a cooperation framework at international level to support the regional and national initiatives on SCP. For that reason, it is important that the framework of the programs be flexible, without determining global priorities. It is expected to have programmes applicable to each region’s priorities (and priority sectors), according to their differences.
c) 10 years: The framework programme will be implemented in a 10 years period. Because of that, there is a possibility to establish short, medium and long term goals. This implies the need to establish indicators on SCP to measure the regional and/or national progress. At the same time, goals to get progress in promotions and the adoption of patterns on SCP can be established to be reached in certain periods ( 5 or 10 years).
d) The proposal revision 2010 / 11: The proposal for the 10YFP will be analyzed in the United Nations Sustainable Development Commission within the cycle 2010 /11, where they expect the governments to agree upon the need to promote SCP and support the implementation of this 10YFP.
63. The preliminary proposal of 10YFP which was made at the Stockholm meeting deals with putting together needs and capacities on SCP, or what is the same, supply and demand. For that, the connecting mechanism that joins one and the other is the set of programs. Under this perspective, the proposal for the Latin American and the Caribbean region is to identify those priorities which must compose the programme at a regional, sub regional and/or national level.
64. Adriana Zacarías highlighted the actions that were being put forward on SCP, at the international level, and especially, the partial outcomes presented by the work groups of the Marrakech Process: a Manual of Sustainable Public Purchases and their respective demonstration projects; Integral management of Coasts; a Sustainable Vacation Campaign, Studies on Climate Change and Tourism; a Study about Energy Savings in construction and buildings; a Manual for the development of Sustainability Public Campaigns; Creative Gallery; Seven demonstration projects at a local level; Eco-labelling for Africa; a Collection of better practices in Developing Agencies, and a Strategy to include SCP in formal education.
65. Zacarías also mentioned the creation of four dialogue tables at a national level within the framework of the Marrakech Process, and that the first and only one took place last April in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The possibility to repeat the experience in Uruguay in the near future was also mentioned there. The Manual for Policy designs and National Strategies on UNEP-DTIE SCP is in its final stage.
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