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UN sustainability report calls for big changes
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United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki Moon’s High-Level Panel on Global Sustainability is presenting its report today in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to address global problems of growing inequality, economic instability and environmental crisis.
The report, entitled Resilient People, Resilient Planet: A Future Worth Choosing ‘contains 56 recommendations to put sustainable development into practice and to mainstream it into economic policy as quickly as possible’.
From the report:
The signposts are clear: We need to change dramatically, beginning with how we think about our relationship to each other, to future generations, and to the eco-systems that support us. Our mission as a Panel was to reflect on and formulate a new vision for sustainable growth and prosperity, along with mechanisms for achieving it.
Some of the UN report’s s include stopping subsides for the fossil fuel industry and to include the environmental cost of producing products into the products’ end purchase prices.
From BBC News:
Subsidies that damage environmental integrity would be phased out by 2020. The UN estimates that governments spend more than $400bn each year subsidising fossil fuels, while OECD countries alone spend nearly the same amount on agricultural subsidies.
Good luck with that one!
Read an overview of the report here and the entire unformatted text for ‘Resilient People, Resilient Planet’ here (both in PDF form).
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wowwwww! I’m happy to read this article. It’s like seeing a rainbow after the rain. It’s just right not to subsidize fossil fuel anymore ,especially right now that those countries that kept on manipulating, dictating and monopolizing the price of their fuel. When they talk the world has no choice but to listen..What we need is someone that will stand firm and has political will to at least initiate difficult and risky changes like this. For sure this would be blocked by other powerful leaders, but my opinion is bring it on to the people , surely people will support this noble advocacy …..I’ll wait for the day that fossil fuel has no choice but to sell it on a bargain price coz no one will be wanted it anymore!!!!!!!!!!!