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Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Key contributions to sustainable development:
1. To deliver the Government's international sustainable development objectives making the most of our network of diplomatic posts overseas. The FCO's Sustainable Development Strategy, to be launched on 14 March, will set out how the FCO will do this. A complementary Strategy on Human Rights, Democracy and Governance will be published later in the year.
2. Promoting human rights, democracy and good political, environmental and economic governance overseas.
3. Delivering on the two WSSD commitments on which the FCO has the overall lead: promoting environmental governance and human rights; and international sustainable development governance. In March 2005 we will publish delivery plans (agreed across Whitehall), setting out priority actions - for the FCO, DFID, DEFRA, and our diplomatic posts overseas - to meet these commitments.
4. Contributing to tackling climate change. Helping to ensure that the international debate on climate change is re-energised through the UK's presidencies of the G8 and EU in 2005, and that both result in concrete actions.
5. Launching a new a new Sustainable Development Programme under the FCO's Global Opportunities Fund in April 2005. This will provide £5 million a year for local, national, regional and international projects. Priority themes will include transparency, information, participation and access to justice; core human rights priorities (including combating torture, abolishing the death penalty and promoting child rights); and natural resource management (including sustainable forest management and reduction of illegal logging, biodiversity and sustainable tourism).
FCO - Sustainable Development Strategy
Updated: 4 April 2006