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(l) Taking measures to ensure the sustainable management of marine
biodiversity and ecosystems, including fish stocks, which contribute to food security
and hunger and poverty eradication efforts, including through ecosystem approaches
to ocean management, and to address the adverse effects of climate change on the
marine environment and marine biodiversity;
(m) Supporting the efforts of countries to preserve fragile mountain
ecosystems as an important source of fresh water and as repositories of rich
biological diversity, with a view to achieving sustainable development and
eradicating poverty;
(n) Promoting sustainable consumption and production patterns, in
accordance with the Plan of Implementation of the World Summit on Sustainable
Development (“Johannesburg Plan of Implementation”);4
(o) Fostering a greater level of coordination among national and local
institutions responsible for economic and social development and environmental
protection, including with respect to the promotion of investments relevant for
sustainable development;
(p) Working towards a successful United Nations Conference on Sustainable
Development in 2012.
Millennium Development Goal 8 – Develop a global partnership
for development
78. We commit ourselves to accelerating progress in order to achieve Millennium
Development Goal 8, including by:
(a) Accelerating efforts to deliver on and fully implement existing
Millennium Development Goal 8 commitments by enhancing the global partnership
for development to ensure the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals
by 2015;
(b) Supporting the implementation of national development strategies by
developing countries to meet the Millennium Development Goals by 2015,
including through external financial and technical support, to further promote
economic growth and to respond to the increased challenges posed by the impact of
the multiple crises, as well as long-term structural obstacles;
(c) Recognizing that the commitments made by developed and developing
countries in relation to the Millennium Development Goals require mutual
accountability;
(d) Strengthening the central role of the United Nations in enhancing global
partnerships for development, with a view to creating a supportive global
environment for the attainment of the Millennium Development Goals;
(e) Enhancing financing for development in the areas of domestic resource
mobilization, foreign direct investment, international trade, international financial
and technical cooperation for development, and debt and systemic issues by meeting
our commitments made in the Monterrey Consensus3 and reaffirmed in the Doha
Declaration on Financing for Development5 and all other relevant outcomes of
major United Nations conferences and summits in the economic, social and related
fields, thus expanding fiscal capacity for financing the attainment of the Millennium
Development Goals;
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