15 June 2011: Senior officials of the five UN regional commissions have met to analyze the importance of decent work in the context of greener and more sustainable globalization.

The high-level panel took place on 14 June 2011, in Geneva, Switzerland, as part of the 100th Session of the International Labour Conference of the International Labour Organization (ILO), in response to an invitation from ILO Director-General, Juan Somavía. The meeting was attended by: Noeleen Heyzer, Executive Secretary of the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP); Jennifer Kargbo, Deputy Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA); Rima Khalaf, Executive Secretary of the Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA); Jan Kubiš, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Europe (ECE); and Antonio Prado, Deputy Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC).

In his presentation, Prado underlined the importance of reaching agreement so that developed countries may meet their financial and technology transfer commitments, with the aim of encouraging sustainable development and achieving a new low-carbon world economy, in accordance with Principle 9 of the 1992 Rio Declaration on Environment and Development. [ECLAC Press Release]