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B. Success factors
52. “Adequate financial resources” was ranked by nearly all as the most important
factor in successfully addressing new and emerging challenges; “strong government
leadership” ranked second (see figure V). Long-term strategies, increasing South-
South and regional cooperation, promotion of good governance, programmes to
improve energy efficiency and energy saving, investment in infrastructure (including
information technology), programmes to raise awareness of sustainable development,
regional cooperation on water management and building technical capacity for data
collection and monitoring are examples of steps taken to enhance success factors.
Figure V
Regional cooperation
Leadership by
International
organizations
Major groups (MG)
United Nations organizations (UN/O)
53. One Member State has established a sustainable development fund that
coherently and predictably allocates funds for sustainable development projects and
programmes. 88 Another has established a national fund on climate change, the first
to use funds from the profits of an oil supply chain to finance mitigation and
adaptation to climate change. 89 Still another highlighted implementation of the
Mauritius Strategy, contributions to the Adaptation Fund and commitment to “fast
start finance” for addressing climate change in developing countries. 90 Multi-party
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88 Italy.
89 “Brazil set to meet low-carbon targets four years early”, Environment News Service, 27 October
2010.
90 Spain.
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