Clean Botswana
SUMMIT FOR SUSTAINABILITY IN AFRICA
The Gaborone Declaration
We, the participants at the Summit for Sustainability in Africa, meeting from 24 to 25 May 2012 in Gaborone, Botswana,
Reaffirm our commitment to implement all conventions and declarations that promote Sustainable Development, in particular: • The African Convention on the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (1968); • The Declaration of the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment (1972); • The Rio Declaration on Environment and Development (1992), its principles and its programme of action also known as Agenda 21; • The United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (1992); • The United Nations Millennium Declaration and the Millennium Development Goals (2000);
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