SIDS Day and Review of CSD-13 Water and Sanitation Decisions

Sixteenth Session of the Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD-16), New York, 5-16 May 2008

From http://www.iisd.ca/csd/csd16/may12.html

Monday, 12 May, 2008

Thematic session: SIDS

The "SIDS Day" session, chaired by Chair Nhema, featured morning panelists Rolph Payet (Small Islands Voice) and Jacqueline daCosta (Jamaica). Panelists and participants heard statements by Under-Secretary-General Sha Zukang and Under-Secretary-General Cheick Sidi Diarra, and discussed land policy, administration and management and desertification, drought and invasive species in SIDS.

Cheick Sidi Diarra (Under-Secretary-General and Special Adviser for Africa).

Rolph Payet (Small Islands Voice).

Byron Blake (Antigua and Barbuda, for the G-77/China).

Joanna Hewitt (Australia).

Angus Friday (Grenada).

Iceland.

The afternoon portion of "SIDS Day" featured panelists Ena Harvey (IICA), Peter Holmgren (FAO) and Rex Horoi (Foundation of the Peoples of the South Pacific).