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06-11-2007, 4:03 PM Emmanuel_OEI Joined on 06-08-2007 Posts 4 Draft NGO position paper: recommendations for Stockholm, June 2007 Attachment: DRAFT NGO position paper RECOMMENDATIONS 10 June 07.pdf NOTE: To post your comments on the draft paper, please press the *REPLY* button, on the right of this message. Attached is the draft NGO position paper for the 3rd International Expert Meeting on SCP that will be taking place in Stockholm, Sweden. This draft has been a joint effort over the past three weeks by Rajan Gandhi (Safety Action Group, India), Uchita de Zoysa (Centre for Environment and Development, Sri Lanka), Jeffrey Barber (Integrated Strategies Forum, USA, and ANPED), as well as both Dagmar Timmer and myself (One Earth Initiative, Canada). The position paper is only a draft, and your input, ideas and comments would be greatly appreciated. Do not hesitate to change the text, add items, etc. to strengthen it. The draft position paper presents 6 key recommendations on the first page; each recommendation is then examined in greater detail in the pages that follow. We need to keep in mind that in order for the paper to be effective, it should not be too long and, most importantly, it should focus on the really key recommendations that can help guide the Marrakech Process and the development of the 10-year framework of programmes. The objectives of the meeting are: (1) to assess progress on the Marrakech Process, notably in the work of the Task Forces, the regional and national strategies, and in the development cooperation dialogue; (2) to begin conceptualising the 10-Year Framework of Programmes on SCP to be presented at the CSD 2010/2011; and (3) to identify new mechanisms to build a more active cooperation between the Marrakech Process and major groups, such as business, NGOs, and academia, among others. So, if you have any particular ideas on these points (especially item #3 which will be discussed at 3:30 pm on June 26), we would love to hear from you! Please, before you post comments, introduce yourself here: http://www.sdissues.net/CS/forums/53/ShowForum.aspx A second NGO paper that will set the context and tone by highlighting the urgent need for a move towards sustainable production and consumption patterns is currently being drafted and will be circulated some time this week. This is the timeline we would like to follow in order to be ready for Stockholm: - 15 June: Deadline for comments from NGOs - 20 June: Final draft position paper sent to NGOs Thank you!    Report

06-15-2007, 7:10 AM doreen fedrigo Joined on 06-15-2007 Posts 2 Re: Draft NGO position paper: recommendations for Stockholm, June 2007 Dear friends, Here are some brief comments on the NGO position paper. I'll be attending the Stockholm meeting but unfortunately will have to miss the first day. However, I would like to suggest that we try to organise a side meeting amongst the NGOs present, to make contact, understand our involvement in the SCP processes at international and national (or sub-national) levels. Recommendation 2, point 6: I suggest in the list of  approach to policies and practices that you  have put in the bracketed text, a further example be added. Eco-innovation is listed, which is a typical process-specific suggestion and an issue that is being taken up by various governments (at least it is in Europe). However, we should not be seen to be limiting sustainability improvements in production only to innovation, we also need to start setting some sustainability parameters that address the shift from scarce minerals to abundant ones, from non-renewable to renewable, from sensitive and rare habitats to brownfield-type locations, etc. We also need to set some overarching priority objectives, and the European Union's 6th Environmental Action Programme already highlights 4 areas: climate change, biodiversity, ecotoxicity and human health, and resource use and waste management. So, I suggest we add to the list of examples something like 'priority environmental objectives'. Also add 'product information requirements', to address the issue of mandatory provision of sustainability data on products for public information. This requires companies to get information on what substances are used in their products, and helps them identify substances they might consider eliminating in future. (This is different from Recommendation 5, point 2c because product information requirements are policies rather than opening up the debate beyond 'experts'.) Recommendation 3, point 4: I'd like to think that these national strategies could also include an element of restriction on unsustainable messages communicated through publicity - advertising and marketing.  I don't suggest this under recommendation 6 because it implies only voluntary approaches by corporates to change their behaviour. Rather, by adding publicity messages to the list of actions to be addressed in national SCP action plans, it better ensures that there is a more global effort by governments to get corporates and advertising companies to more systematically change their behaviour. There is also a very clear link here to ecological fiscal reform since less/different advertising presumably has a negative impact on sales of some products and therefore the profits of some of the companies. Recommendation 4, point 7: Without having time at the moment to propose a consolidated list of the existing task forces against your proposed ones, I hesitate to think that having 15 task forces will make this a simple implementation process. I wonder if it would be better to propose other task force topics (such as your list) but without implying that each topic will require a dedicated task force. Many thanks, Doreen Fedrigo ------------------------ Doreen FEDRIGO Natural Resources, Products and Waste Policy Officer European Environmental Bureau (aisbl) Boulevard de Waterloo 34 1000 BRUSSELS Belgium Tel: +32 2 289 10 97 Fax: +32 2 289 10 99 Skype: fedrigodoreen ******************************** Use fewer resources and prevent waste - do not print this email to read it.    Report

06-15-2007, 10:45 PM Uchita de Zoysa Joined on 06-09-2007 Posts 6 Re: Draft NGO position paper: recommendations for Stockholm, June 2007 First to welome you to the forum dialogue and to thank you for your comments which I liked. I am Uchita de Zoysa and from Centre for Environment and Development based in Sri Lanka First the ide of  NGO side event - we are discussing daily NGO strategy sessions to assist many NGOs to be focused and impactfull in the different working group sessions. The NGO forum itself will be the kick-off for this. I fully agree with you about the points on recomendation #2 - point 6. The Marrackech process and the european appraoch has been so much towards equating eco-innovation and efficiency as the solution SP. This point will come very strongly out in the Context NGO Paper that is currentely being edited. Similarly, your point on regulating corporate communications as in regulating corporate behaviur, I agree needs to be highlighted and well placed within out recomendations. I also share that the NAPs for SCP have to address the regulatory messures on corporate behaviour and communicaions. The point on Task Forces are cetialy like a shopping list, but the idea is to challenge the existing ones which play a very narrow role in the SCP dialogue. The Marrakech process need to addess key issues such as Equity and Wellbieng centrally and the it isnot happening. After 5 years of strong lobbying I finally see poverty coming into the Marrakech process, but has no comprehension shown what so ever in the background paper on the 10YFP. Once again, thank you and please do send in your recomendations, if the paper has mised out on any as well. Uchita de Zoysa Executive Director - Centre for Environment & Development 253/10, Stanley Thilakaratne Mawatha, Nugegoda, Sri Lanka Tel:  +94 11 2768459 Mobile: +94 777 372206  Fax: +94 11 5553493 e-mail:ced@sltnet.lk / betterworld@sltnet.lk / uchita@sltnet.lk skype: uchita.de.zoysa http://betterworldasia.blogspot.com/ http://centreforenvironmentdevelopment.blogspot.com/    Report

06-18-2007, 5:41 PM LUIS Joined on 06-18-2007 Posts 1 Re: Draft NGO position paper: recommendations for Stockholm, June 2007 Dear Friends, First of all, let me apologise for joining in so late.  My name is Luis Flores and I work for the Santiago Office of Consumers International (www.consumersinternational.org / Consumers International is the only independent global campaigning voice for consumers with over 220 member organisations in 115countries).   I will be representing consumer organizations at the Multi-stakeholders Panel Discussion on the afternoon of tuesday 26.  Together with me there will be another CI representative at the Stockholm meeting; her name is Mary Muchena and she is the Africa Programme Manager at CI London Office. Secondly, I would like to thank everyone that has worked on the draft NGO position paper for such an effort and also those who have created this virtual forum, which gives us the chance of developing a stronger point of view. CI has a clear, responsible role to its consumers, two thirds of whom are derived from developing countries. CI wishes to be recognised as a major stakeholder group with a  prominent role to play in relevant existing and newly proposed Marrakech Task Forces on SCP, the development of domestic frameworks and national action plans. In task forces concerned with the evaluation of emerging technologies, CI has a history and capacity to provide independent assessments.  CI advocates for policies and decisions that are not detrimental to the livelihoods of poor consumers. In my next communication I will be posting my coments to the draft. Best Regards, Luis          Report

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