UN General Assembly
1992

towards sustainable development, especially in implementing decisions aimed at the elimination of obstacles in the trade of raw or processed goods and the transfer of new and additional financial resources to developing countries. In this regard. Agenda 21 has highlighted several ways to achieve the objectives with regard to the transfer of resources through the following machinery: through the special increase of resources in the form of the "Earth Increment" in the World Bank; through the global environmental facility that will meet next December in Abidjan and whose objective is to increase its resources from $1.1 billion to $4.5 billion; and through debt alleviation, especially for middle-income countries. It is also worth noting that in Rio, several countries promised to increase their transfer of resources to developing countries, committing themselves to achieve 1 per cent of their gross national product to official development assistance by the year 2000. Some of them have announced special contributions. By way of example, I cite the EEC, which hopes to reach