(i) Inviting industry to review and strengthen current voluntary industry initiatives to bring them into line with the considerable challenges associated with the implementation of Strategic Approach objectives

To sustain an integrated approach to managing chemicals, each Government should establish a central body for implementing the Strategic Approach on an inter ministerial or inter institutional basis so that all concerned national departmental and stakeholder interests are represented and all relevant substantive areas are addressed.

(g) Promote reduction of the risks posed by heavy metals that are harmful to human health and the environment, including through a review of relevant studies, such as the United Nations Environment Programme global assessment of mercury and its compounds.

The purpose of the seminar is to carry out a mid term review of the progress achieved in the implementation of the plan of action of the Second International Decade for the Eradication of Colonialism, in order to define priorities for follow up and intensified action in the remaining years of the Decade.

And we find ourselves part of a very rapidly growing global movement of institutions working on social innovation, using ideas from design or technology or community organizing to develop the germs of a future world, but through practice and through demonstration and not through theory.