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G8 Statement on Global Food Security
The G8 tackled about global food security which is currently a major problem worldwide and here is the G8's Statement on it. Let us hope that the G8 statement will not be digested as a call to support Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO) on food.
1. We are deeply concerned that the steep rise in global food prices coupled with availability problems in a number of developing countries is threatening global food security. The negative impacts of this recent trend could push millions more back into poverty, rolling back progress made towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals. We have taken additional steps to assist those suffering from food insecurity or hunger, and today renew our commitment to address this multifaceted and structural crisis.
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 G8 Statement on Environment and Climate Change
Climate Change
22. We reconfirm the significance of the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) as providing the most comprehensive assessment of the science and encourage the continuation of the science-based approach that should guide our climate protection efforts. We reaffirm our commitment to take strong leadership in combating climate change and in this respect, welcome decisions taken in Bali as the foundation for reaching a global agreement in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) process by 2009. We are committed to its successful conclusion. Enhanced commitments or actions by all major economies are essential for tackling climate change. Therefore, we endorse the positive contribution of the Major Economies Leaders Meeting to the UNFCCC.
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G8 Statement on Development and Africa
The G8 Summit in Japan is almost over and here are some of the agreements and statements made by the G8 on their recent meeting in Japan. The G8 is composed of the following nations: France, United States, United Kingdom, Russia, Germany, Japan, Italy and Canada.
Here is their statement on Development and Africa...
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Biofuels Sustain Unsustainable Lifestyles in the North and Threaten Sustainability in the South
In parallel with the way carbon trading has been utilized by large
companies in the North to avoid adopting costly emissions reduction
technologies (and thereby jeopardizing their profitability – see the
article on carbon trading in this issue), the same enthusiasm for
biofuels by the Northern countries seems designed to let them keep
their high consumption and their clearly unsustainable lifestyles as
best exemplified in the use of private transport.
The North wants developing countries to develop biofuels because that
is the only way to keep fuel prices from skyrocketing. And developing
country governments are only too willing to play along because of the
enticement of foreign investments.
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Carbon Trading and the limits of free-market logic
Reprinted from The Ecologist on-line . This
article originally appeared in China Dialogue and has been edited for
space considerations.
If, as their proponents claim, carbon markets are wonderful tools for
bringing about emissions reductions and provide economic support for
clean technologies in the global south, then why have they been met
with a mounting chorus of criticism from civilsociety organisations,
social movements, and journalists around the world?
Plans are being made, through processes like the G8+5 Climate Dialogue
for countries like China (i.e., countries currently without commitments
under the Kyoto Protocol) to adopt carbon trading as part of their
climate policy, and there needs to be an assessment of whether such
schemes really work in reducing tmospheric carbon – or if they are
simply a means for polluting industries to profitably avoid the issue
of making emissions cuts.
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Happy New Environmental Year
Dear Friends in Sustainability Watch network,
2007 became the year where environment and climate changes (finally) went strongly into the international agenda. The year finalized with the Bali COP conference, where the Road Map was agreed toward the Climate Summit to be held in December 2009 in Copenhagen . Although it will be hard works with US position in the coming negotiations.
The Global Call to Action Against Poverty (GCAP) advocated in Bali for
the governments to acknowledge that climate change impacts, which are
being felt already in many poor nations, are undoing the progress made
in achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and present one of
the biggest obstacle to halving extreme poverty by 2015.
I believe that you all are engaged in environmental related activities
in your countries. However, many are asking why the SusWatch network is
not any longer active as a global network? It would make a lot of sense
having the international agenda, including the coming Climate Summit in
2009.
How IUCN argued at Bali : “Put biodiversity at centre of climate
debate”. Also reference to new IIED’s website with tools for
integrating/mainstreaming environment that will further develop during
2008.
HAPPY HOLIDAYS & HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Hans Peter
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