Premier Michael Sata is not yet committed to attend.
Does your country have a Rio+20 preparatory committee?
Zambia has a Rio+20 preparatory committee involving ministries, stakeholder organizations and the Environmental Council that articulates national policies. There is full participation of the private sector, civil society, UNDP and other international organizations.
Has your country completed a sustainable development review?
Zambia is in the process of conducting a thorough analysis of past efforts and challenges, as well as reoccurring negative outcomes from the past 20 years.
Is your country planning on announcing new initiatives at Rio?
Zambia has various innovative initiatives in regional governance and resource management, reforestation, full scale energy access in rural areas, as well as raising grassroots awareness of climate change at the elementary school level.
Zambia has an active private sector participation in renewable energy and active collaboration with China on agriculture.
