Traduction de «Groupe de travail Développement durable » (Français → Anglais) :

The priority areas identified were aimed at contributing to the global discussions taking place within the United Nations (UN) Open Working Group on the Sustainable Development Goals.

18. Considers that inequality hampers development and poverty reduction efforts; reiterates that poverty eradication, equality and sustainable development are only possible if all vulnerable groups are taken into account and if equitable access, sustainable use of resources and good governance is promoted; calls on the EU and its Member States to support SDG 10, as proposed by the UN OWG, as a stand-alone goal in the new framework;

31. Calls on the EU and the US to continue strengthening their dialogue and cooperation in the field of development, in order to improve the quality and effectiveness of their development assistance; urges both partners to continue promoting the objective of achieving the Millennium Development Goals by 2015; welcomes the fact that the partners have set up a reflection group to work on a post-2015 agenda concerning the Millennium Development Goals; urges the partners to engage in close coordination with the countries of the Atlanti ...[+++]c rim in relation to those goals, given their special importance for that group; calls on the EU and the US, in this reflection process, to address the issue of how the post-2015 MDGs and the Sustainable Development Goals can be linked;

31. Calls on the EU and the US to continue strengthening their dialogue and cooperation in the field of development, in order to improve the quality and effectiveness of their development assistance; urges both partners to continue promoting the objective of achieving the Millennium Development Goals by 2015; welcomes the fact that the partners have set up a reflection group to work on a post-2015 agenda concerning the Millennium Development Goals; urges the partners to engage in close coordination with the countries of the Atlanti ...[+++]c rim in relation to those goals, given their special importance for that group; calls on the EU and the US, in this reflection process, to address the issue of how the post-2015 MDGs and the Sustainable Development Goals can be linked;

16. Welcomes, in particular, the HLWG’s recommendation that the EU and the US address the environment and labour aspects of trade and sustainable development; considers that the experience of previous EU trade agreements and the long-lasting EU-US commitments should be taken into account in order to strengthen the development and enforcement of labour and environmental laws and policies and promote the core standards and benchmarks laid down by the International Labour Organisation (ILO), as well as decent jobs and sustainable development; encourages the harmonisation of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) standards; recognises that ...[+++] achieving common standards is likely to present both technical and political challenges, and emphasises that the common goal should be to ensure that there is no diminution of environmental ambitions;

42. Acknowledges that both governance on sustainable development and international governance may require implementation and coordination efforts at regional level and will need a more coherent regional institutional framework; urges therefore the WSSD to consider the creation of a World Environment Organization under the auspices of the UN; urges international organisations, notably the United Nations bodies and organisations, working on environmental and sustainable development issues at regional or national levels, to extend their consultations with non-governmental organisations and other major ...[+++]groups; calls upon the Summit to discuss ways and means to promote compliance with, and enforcement of, multilateral environmental agreements; at the same time, WSSD should clarify that responsibility for workers' rights and environmental protection remain with governments and the respective international fora (ILO, UNEP, etc), and that the roles of those fora should be strengthened;