The Commission proposes concrete action for sustainable development and a fairer world
How should we be tackling the problem of poverty? What is the best way of managing our natural resources and the environment? How should we finance development? With an eye to the forthcoming major international events at which these and other questions will be discussed the Monterrey Conference on development financing (March 2002), the World Summit for sustainable development (in September 2002), and the practical application of the Doha development agenda of November 2001, the European Commission is proposing a first set of responses, making a forceful case for multilateralism as the only effective way of addressing these global challenges. The three communications which the Commission today adopted, at the initiative of President Romano Prodi, the Member of the Commission responsible for economic and monetary affairs, Pedro Solbes and the Member responsible for development and humanitarian aid, Poul Nielson, will be widely discussed within civil society and by the public at large.
