A service of the International Council of Environmental Law -toward sustainable development - (ICEL)

A service of the International Council of Environmental Law - toward sustainable development - (ICEL)



Thursday, June 16, 2011

UN Regional Commissions: Decent Work and Sustainable Development

Senior officials of the five UN regional commissions met on 14 June to analyze the importance of decent work in the context of greener and more sustainable globalization, as part of the 100th Session of the International Labour Conference of the International Labour Organization (ILO).

In his presentation, Antonio Prado, Deputy Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) underlined the importance of reaching agreement so that developed countries may meet their financial and technology transfer commitments, with the aim of encouraging sustainable development and achieving a new low-carbon world economy, in accordance with Principle 9 of the 1992 Rio Declaration on Environment and Development.

ECLAC Press Release

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