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55. We are committed to taking further action through practical international
cooperation, inter alia:
(a) To promote innovation, clean energy and energy efficiency and
conservation; improve policy, regulatory and financing frameworks; and accelerate
the deployment of cleaner technologies;
(b) To enhance private investment, transfer of technologies and capacitybuilding to developing countries, as called for in the Johannesburg Plan of
Implementation, taking into account their own energy needs and priorities;
(c) To assist developing countries to improve their resilience and integrate
adaptation goals into their sustainable development strategies, given that adaptation
to the effects of climate change due to both natural and human factors is a high
priority for all nations, particularly those most vulnerable, namely, those referred to
in article 4.8 of the Convention;
(d) To continue to assist developing countries, in particular small island
developing States, least developed countries and African countries, including those
that are particularly vulnerable to climate change, in addressing their adaptation
needs relating to the adverse effects of climate change.
56. In pursuance of our commitment to achieve sustainable development, we
further resolve:
(a) To promote the United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable
Development and the International Decade for Action, “Water for Life”;
(b) To support and strengthen the implementation of the United Nations
Convention to Combat Desertification in Those Countries Experiencing Serious
Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa, 14 to address causes of
desertification and land degradation, as well as poverty resulting from land
degradation, through, inter alia, the mobilization of adequate and predictable
financial resources, the transfer of technology and capacity-building at all levels;
(c) That the States parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity 15 and
the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety 16 should support the implementation of the
Convention and the Protocol, as well as other biodiversity-related agreements and
the Johannesburg commitment for a significant reduction in the rate of loss of
biodiversity by 2010. The States parties will continue to negotiate within the
framework of the Convention on Biological Diversity, bearing in mind the Bonn
Guidelines, 17 an international regime to promote and safeguard the fair and
equitable sharing of benefits arising out of the utilization of genetic resources. All
States will fulfil commitments and significantly reduce the rate of loss of
biodiversity by 2010 and continue ongoing efforts towards elaborating and
negotiating an international regime on access to genetic resources and benefitsharing;
(d) To recognize that the sustainable development of indigenous peoples and
their communities is crucial in our fight against hunger and poverty;
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United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1954, No. 33480
Ibid., vol. 1760, No. 30619.
16
UNEP/CBD/ExCOP/1/3 and Corr.1, part two, annex.
17
UNEP/CBD/COP/6/20, annex I, decision VI/24A.
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