Invitation

Planning and Strategy for 2004:
CSD-12, the UNEP Global Ministers Environmental Forum, the Ten Year Framework on Production & Consumption, and the North American Sustainable Consumption Alliance

Date:     October 1, 2003
             9:30 to 11:30 am

Where: UNEP Regional Office of North America office
             1707 H Street, Suite 300 (between 17th and 18th streets)
             Washington, DC 20006
            Metro: Farragut North metro/K Street exit, or Farragut North, 17th St exit

Sponsored by Citizens Network for Sustainable Development and UNEP-RONA

This will be a meeting to share and coordinate plans for a number of upcoming, overlapping events which most of us will be involved with in various ways. One strategy to be discussed is developing the links between sustainable production and consumption and fresh water, sanitation and human settlements.

CSD-12 will be the first phase of a two-year focus on water, sanitation and human settlements, as well as the cross-cutting themes/objectives of sustainable production & consumption and poverty eradication. The deadline for major groups input to the Secretary General's paper on this is October 31. Karin Krchnak (WRI) and Shiney Varghese (IATP) are co-chairing the Fresh Water Caucus.

CSD-12 will also hear a report on the Marrakech Experts Meeting on the Ten Year Framework on Production and Consumption. ISF attended this meeting and can report on the outcomes of this event. ISF is also working on the SPAC Watch report to be submitted to CSD12.

The UNEP GMEF will be held in March; this will also focus on the above topics. Keith Robinson of UNEP-RONA is helping plan for this event. UNEP is interested in input from North American civil society on this, in particular a regional North American NGO paper. We will also discuss ideas for a regional roundtable to be held later this fall.

Plans are also being made to organize a North American roundtable on sustainable production and consumption, to be held next spring in Canada in conjunction with the Canadian Pollution Prevention Roundtable. This two-day meeting is being planned by the North American Sustainable Consumption Alliance (NASCA). Jack Luskin from the Toxics Use Research Institute can tell us more about this event.

The meeting is an opportunity to get together face-to-face to help clarify details and coordinate plans. It will not be a large public meeting but rather a smaller, informal, invitation-only gathering.



	Invitation Planning and Strategy for 2004: CSD-12, the UNEP Global Ministers Environmental Forum, the Ten Year Framework on Production & Consumption, and the North American Sustainable Consumption Alliance Date: October 1, 2003 9:30 to 11:30 am Where: UNEP Regional Office of North America office 1707 H Street, Suite 300 (between 17th and 18th streets) Washington, DC 20006 Metro: Farragut North metro/K Street exit, or Farragut North, 17th St exit Sponsored by Citizens Network for Sustainable Development and UNEP-RONA This will be a meeting to share and coordinate plans for a number of upcoming, overlapping events which most of us will be involved with in various ways. One strategy to be discussed is developing the links between sustainable production and consumption and fresh water, sanitation and human settlements. CSD-12 will be the first phase of a two-year focus on water, sanitation and human settlements, as well as the cross-cutting themes/objectives of sustainable production & consumption and poverty eradication. The deadline for major groups input to the Secretary General's paper on this is October 31. Karin Krchnak (WRI) and Shiney Varghese (IATP) are co-chairing the Fresh Water Caucus. CSD-12 will also hear a report on the Marrakech Experts Meeting on the Ten Year Framework on Production and Consumption. ISF attended this meeting and can report on the outcomes of this event. ISF is also working on the SPAC Watch report to be submitted to CSD12. The UNEP GMEF will be held in March; this will also focus on the above topics. Keith Robinson of UNEP-RONA is helping plan for this event. UNEP is interested in input from North American civil society on this, in particular a regional North American NGO paper. We will also discuss ideas for a regional roundtable to be held later this fall. Plans are also being made to organize a North American roundtable on sustainable production and consumption, to be held next spring in Canada in conjunction with the Canadian Pollution Prevention Roundtable. This two-day meeting is being planned by the North American Sustainable Consumption Alliance (NASCA). Jack Luskin from the Toxics Use Research Institute can tell us more about this event. The meeting is an opportunity to get together face-to-face to help clarify details and coordinate plans. It will not be a large public meeting but rather a smaller, informal, invitation-only gathering.

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