Press release
10 August 2010
Ministry for Foreign Affairs
Gunilla Carlsson appointed to UN High-level Panel on Global Sustainability
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has appointed Minister for International Development Cooperation Gunilla Carlsson as a member of the new UN High-level Panel on Global Sustainability.
"I am tremendously pleased and grateful for the opportunity to be a member of this panel on an issue of such importance to all humankind. This is also recognition of Sweden's very determined efforts on behalf of a sustainable environment for people in both rich and poor countries," says Ms Carlsson.
The task of the Secretary-General's High-level Panel on Global Sustainability, which will be under the Secretary-General, will be to formulate a new vision for sustainable growth and development and to identify mechanisms for achieving this vision, with a special focus on climate change.
The High-level Panel has been established in response to the conclusions from the UN Summit on Climate Change in September 2009 and the final report of the Commission on Climate Change and Development, led by Ms Carlsson, "Closing the Gaps", which was published in 2008.
The High-level Panel will be jointly headed by the President of Finland, Tarja Halonen, and the President of South Africa, Jacob Zuma. The Panel's other members include US Ambassador to the UN Susan E. Rice, former Prime Minister of Australia Kevin Rudd, Barbados Prime Minister David Thompson, EU Commissioner Connie Hedegaard and former Prime Minister of Norway Gro Harlem Brundtland.
The High-level Panel will hold its first meeting in conjunction with the gathering of the United Nations General Assembly in New York in September. The High-level Panel will have a secretariat to support it and will deliver a final report to the Secretary-General of the United Nations by the end of 2011.
Contact
Peter Larsson+46 8 405 10 00
