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Comunicato
stampa - Roma 3 Settembre 2002
Battaglia per il pianeta
Johannesburg:
I sindaci delle grandi città del mondo
ed i Premi Nobel lanciano una dichiarazione
programmatica a difesa del pianeta.
Tra i firmatari il Presidente di Green
Cross International, Premio Nobel per la Pace,
Mikhail Gorbaciov, il Sindaco di Roma,Walter
Veltroni e la Professoressa, Rita Levi Montalcini.
E'
stata firmata oggi a Johannesburg una
dichiarazione congiunta, sottoscritta dai
sindaci delle maggiori città del mondo
e da sette premi nobel, che vuole fissare
dei punti fermi alla conclusione del Summit
per lo Sviluppo Sostenibile di Johannesburg.
La dichiarazione afferma che gli indicatori
ambientali puntano ormai da tempo verso la
linea rossa ed indicano come responsabili
gli interessi autoreferenziali della politica
che creano degli impasse sociali, economici
ed ecologici insuperabili per miliardi di
abitanti del pianeta.
I firmatari dellappello chiedono
ai Capi di Stato e dei Governi convenuti a
Johannesburg di articolare unazione
realmente al sostegno dello sviluppo sostenibile,
al di là delle dichiarazioni retoriche,
creando strumenti adeguati e stanziando le
risorse necessarie, nel rispetto della Dichiarazione
del Millennio.
Mikhail
Gorbaciov in occasione della firma ha
dichiarato che: La riunione di Johannesburg
dei leader mondiali per combattere i problemi
legati allo sviluppo economico ed ambientale
non deve fallire. Un eventuale fallimento
ricadrebbe in maniera durissima sulle generazioni
future. È necessario, quindi, vincere
questa battaglia per il pianeta.
Per
gli ultimi del pianeta il Summit è
di fondamentale importanza ha affermato
il Premio Nobel per la Pace Rigoberta Menchu'
e la povertà e la violenza causate
dal pessimo accesso allacqua potabile
ed allenergia pesano moltissimo su troppe
persone. È necessario agire ora.
I
risultati di Johannesburg non sono stati dei
migliori sostiene il Presidente di
Green Cross Italia, Giudo Pollice perché
non si è riusciti a venire fuori dalle
emanazioni di principio.Noi comunque siamo
mossi da una forte volontà di agire
e di tentare di cambiare le cose e per ciò
che continuiamo a sollecitari grandi del mondo
a risolvere i problemi vitali.E con
questo spirito che salutiamo il nuovo messaggio
allinsegna della battaglia per il Pianeta.
Ai Capi di
Stato e dei Governi si chiede:
Questi
risultati sono raggiungibili, secondo i firmatari
della dichiarazione, attraverso ladozione
di un quadro etico che sostenga e rinforzi
le istanze contenute nella Dichiarazione
del Millennio e adotti la Carta della
Terra come contributo essenziale nella
creazione di una partnership globale per un
reale Sviluppo Sostenibile.
Limplementazione
dei principi contenuti nella Dichiarazione
di Rio ed in Agenda 21, ladozione
di risorse energetiche rinnovabili ed alternative,
la riforma delle Nazioni Unite, la creazione
di una piattaforma legale che motivi il mondo
degli affari ad adottare lo Sviluppo Sostenibile,
le ratifiche delle convenzioni ed i protocolli
internazionali di protezione ambientale, ed
uninversione di tendenza nella logica
degli aiuti allo sviluppo, spesso erogati
in maniera distorta, rappresentano i punti
focali della dichiarazione.
I firmatari della dichiarazione
sono:
I sindaci
delle città di:
Shanghai, Chen Lianguy
Roma,Walter Veltroni
Lyone, Gerard Collomb
Durban, Obed Mlaba
I Premi
Nobel
Mikhail Gorbaciov
Rigoberta Menchù
Oscar Arias Sanchez
Arcivescovo Desdemon Tutu
Jody Williams
Betty Williams
Rita Levi Montalcini
Il testo originale
della dichiarazione:
Battle for the Planet
Johannesburg Declaration
We,
stand at a critical moment in Earth's history:
a time when humanity must choose its future.
As the world becomes increasingly interdependent
and fragile, the future holds great peril,
and we, the People, have great responsibilities.
Ten years ago, the world was swept up in a
wave of optimism with the end of the Cold
War and the adoption of Agenda 21 at the Rio
Earth Summit. Today, however, the report on
the state of the planet is overwhelming: the
environment continues to deteriorate, poverty
is increasing and the number of armed conflicts
is on the rise. In addition, the globalizing
economy appears to thwart all possibility
for change. The main causes of sustainability
degradation include: growing populations,
which need more energy and resources; affluence,
which increases material consumption and waste;
poverty, which limits choices on how to use
the environment; technologies, which use energy
and dispose of waste inefficiently; insecurity,
which leads to massive spending on military
budgets and the construction of nuclear, chemical
and biological weapons of mass destruction;
and financial institutions and policies, which
avoid addressing the most pressing problems
and exclude stakeholders, especially women,
minorities and the poor.
We, know that today:
· 1.2 billion people live on less than
$1 a day.
· 800 million people are suffering
from hunger.
· 1.5 billion human beings do not have
access to safe drinking water.
· 2.5 billion people lack adequate
sanitation services.
· 5 million individuals, predominantly
women and children, die every year from diseases
related to water quality
· 2 billion people do not have access
to electricity.
· 25 million refugees have fled their
homes for ecological reasons.
· The standard of living of the average
African family has decreased by 20 % in the
past 10 years.
· 36 million human beings are infected
with the HIV virus; 23 million of whom are
living in Africa without access to any treatment.
· The average level of Overseas Development
Aid is at 0.22% of GNP in OECD countries;
a figure to be compared to the 0.7% which
nations committed to during the Rio World
Summit in 1992.
· The urban population of 2.5 billion
will increase to 5 billion in the next 25
years.
· 12% of the 1.7 million known species
are threatened with extinction.
· Average world temperatures are projected
to increase further, by 1.2° to 3.5°
C (2° to 6° F) over the course of
the 21st Century, which could exacerbate flooding,
fires and other natural disasters across the
world, melt glaciers and the polar ice caps,
raise sea levels and pose threats to hundreds
of millions of coastal and island dwellers.
· The stabilization of levels of carbon
dioxide in the atmosphere to a range that
is considered safe will require overall reductions
in the order of 60 per cent or more in the
emission of the greenhouse gases
that are responsible for global warming.
· The known reserves of petrol and
natural gas could become exhausted in the
next half century.
· Developing countries loose $10 billion
a year due to imbalances and unjust trade
tariffs imposed by developed countries.
We,
are declaring our Planet in Danger,
and accuse the self-interested politics of
« business as usual » pursued
by governments of creating a social, economic
and ecological impasse for the six billion
inhabitants of the planet today, and of compromising
the survival of the 11 to 12 billion people
who will likely inhabit the Earth at the end
of the century.
We, Citizens of Earth, declare our responsibility
to one another, to the greater community of
life, and to future generations, and promise
to bring forth a sustainable global society
founded on respect for nature, universal human
rights, economic justice, and a culture of
peace.
We, Signatories of this declaration, demand
to Heads of State and Governments to:
-
Acknowledge
and act on their responsibility to turn
rhetoric into real action and achieve sustainable
development
- Respect the principles,
commit the necessary resources, and create
adequate instruments to achieve the Development
Goals of the Millennium Declaration, in particular:
· To halve, by 2015, the proportion
of the worlds people whose income is
less than one dollar a day.
· To halve, by 2015, the proportion
of people who do not have access to safe drinking
water.
· To ensure, by 2015, all children
complete a full course of primary education.
· To halt, and begin to reverse, by
2015, the spread of HIV/AIDS
· To grant the goods produced in poor
countries free access to the markets of developed
countries.
- Adopt a common
ethical framework in order to achieve sustainability
and to reinforce the goals established in
the Millennium Declaration. To recognize the
Earth Charter as a valuable contribution to
the development of a shared vision of fundamental
values and the creation of strong, equitable
global partnerships for sustainable development.
- Implement all principles
contained in the Rio Declaration and Agenda
21, and enforce the principles of democracy
and good governance.
- Curb currently unsustainable
patterns of consumption and production, and
support greatly increased research, development
and implementation of renewable energy sources
and other eco-efficient alternatives
-
Create
a legal basis motivating the business community
to become committed agents of Sustainable
Development.
-
Reform
the United Nations system in order to give
more power for actions, for enforcement
of UN decisions, for peace and stability.
- Ratify all International
Conventions and Protocols without delay, and
implement their terms with courage and determination:
including those related to Climate Change,
Biodiversity, Desertification, Wetlands, International
Watercourses, and others.
-
Reverse
the tendency of the last ten years by increasing
Overseas Development Aid spending and abolishing
environmentally harmful and trade-distorting
subsidies, in order to allow developing
countries to eliminate their crippling debts,
cover their basic human and ecological needs,
and have access to modern technologies that
use materials and energy efficiently and
with a minimum of waste. The objective of
0.7% of GDP should be reached by 2012.
Per ulteriori approfondimenti potete visitare
il sito www.greencrossitalia.it
Prosegue
on line, tramite il sito Internet di Green
Cross Italia www.greencrossitalia.it, la raccolta
di firme per chiedere l'avvio dell'istituzione
della Convenzione Quadro Internazionale sull'Acqua.
Per
informazioni si può contattare Green
Cross Italia Via Flaminia 53, 00196 Roma -
o consultare il sito web www.greencrossitalia.it
Contatto Stampa: Sergio Ferraris, 06 36004300,
347 3803887
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