Sustainable

Development
Where/how did it originate?

What is its current status?

What is its future?

How does it affect…?

Sustainable Development

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SOURCE: http://www.oecd.org/insights/sustainabledevelopmentlinkingeconomysocietyenvironment.htm

"Sustainable development is development that meets the

needs of the present without compromising the ability of
future generations to meet their own needs.”
SOURCE: http://www.unece.org/oes/nutshell/2004-2005/focus_sustainable_development.html
 Sustainable Development

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SOURCE: http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainable_Development
 UN Conference on Human Environment proclaimed 27 Principles, as well as,
The 1972
established the UN Environment Programme. Some of the 27 principles were:

1972
1. Protect and improve the environment for present and future generations…
2. Natural resources of the earth must be safeguarded.
3. Man has a special responsibility to safeguard and wisely manage the heritage of wildlife and
its habitat.
4. The discharge of toxic substances must be halted.
5. Prevent pollution of the seas
6. Resources should be made available to preserve and improve the environment, taking into
account the circumstances and particular requirements of developing countries.

7. States should adopt an integrated and coordinated approach to their development

planning so as to ensure that development is compatible with the need to protect and improve
environment for the benefit of their population.
8. Planning must be applied to human settlements and urbanization with a view to avoiding
adverse effects on the environment and obtaining maximum social, economic and environmental benefits for
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SOURCE: http://www.unep.org/Documents.Multilingual/Default.asp?documentid=78&articleid=1163
In 1976 the UN convened Habitat I – UN Conference on Human Settlements in

1976
Vancouver, Canada, from 31 May till 11 June 1976 as governments began to recognise the consequences of
rapid urbanisation, especially in the developing world.
That pioneering conference sprung from warnings about urbanisation at the 1972 United Nations Conference on the
Human Environment in Stockholm convened to deal with the perceived threat to the environment by human activity.
At the time of the first Habitat conference in Vancouver in 1976, urbanization and its impacts were barely on the
radar screen of a United Nations created just three decades earlier when two-thirds of humanity was still rural. But
the world was starting to witness the greatest and fastest migration into cities and towns in history.

In 1976, one-third of the world’s people lived in cities

In 2006 this rose to one-half
and will continue to grow to two-thirds, or 6 billion people, by 2050.

Resolution 31/109 - calling for all organizations within

The UN General Assembly adopted
and outside the UN system to support national efforts in the formulation,
design, implementation and evaluation of projects to improve human
settlements.

SOURCE: http://www.unostamps.nl/subject_habitat_conference_i.htm
 “Report of Habitat”
Section D: Land - The UN and Property Rights

SOURCE: http://sovereignty.net/p/land/unproprts.htm
 1983
The Brundtland
Commission (formally the UN World Commission on
Environment and Development) was convened by the United Nations in 1983. The commission
was created to address growing concern "about the accelerating deterioration of the human development
and natural resources. The UN General Assembly recognized that environmental problems were global in
nature and determined that it was in the common interest of all nations to establish policies for sustainable
development.

Its goals were multilateralism and inter-dependence of nations in the search for a sustainable
development path.
Our Common Future placed environmental issues firmly on the political agenda; it
aimed to discuss
the environment and development as
one single issue. The publication of “Our Common Future” and
the work of the
laid the groundwork for
World Commission on Environment and Development
the convening of the 1992 UN Earth summit.

SOURCE: http://www.un.org/documents/ga/res/42/ares42-187.htm
 1987
The Earth Charter originated in 1987, when the UN
World Commission on Environment and
Development called for a new charter to guide the transition to sustainable
development.
Humanity must choose its future. We must join together to bring forth a sustainable global society founded on
respect for nature, universal human rights, economic justice, and a culture of peace. Towards this end, it is
imperative that we, the peoples of Earth, declare our responsibility to one another, to the greater community of
life, and to future generations.
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The Earth Charter established 16 Principles grouped under:
1 • ECOLOGICAL INTEGRITY
2 • SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC JUSTICE
• DEMOCRACY, NONVIOLENCE, AND PEACE
3 • RESPECT AND CARE FOR THE COMMUNITY OF LIFE

SOURCE: http://www.earthcharterinaction.org/content/
 III. SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC JUSTICE

9. Eradicate poverty as an ethical, social, and environmental imperative.

a. Guarantee the right to potable water, clean air, food security, uncontaminated soil, shelter, and safe sanitation, allocating the national and international
resources required.

provide social security

b. Empower every human being with the education and resources to secure a sustainable livelihood, and

and safety nets for those who are unable to support themselves. ???
10. Ensure that economic activities and institutions at all levels promote human development in an equitable and
sustainable manner.

Promote the equitable distribution of wealth within nations and among

a.

nations. ???
b. Enhance the intellectual, financial, technical, and social resources of developing nations, and relieve them of onerous
international debt. ???
11. Affirm gender equality and equity as prerequisites to sustainable development and ensure universal access to
education, health care and economic opportunity.
a. Secure the human rights of women and girls and end all violence against them.
b. Promote the active participation of women in all aspects of economic, political, civil, social, and cultural life as full and equal partners, decision makers,
leaders, and beneficiaries.
c. Strengthen families and ensure the safety and loving nurture of all family members.

12. Uphold the right of all, without discrimination, to a natural and social environment supportive of human dignity,
bodily health, and spiritual well-being, with special attention to the rights of indigenous peoples and minoritie s

SOURCE: http://www.earthcharterinaction.org/content/pages/Read-the-Charter.html
1988 The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
was first established in 1988 by the World
Meteorological Organization and the United
Nations Environment Programme.
The IPCC is a scientific intergovernmental body, which
provides comprehensive assessments of current scientific,
technical and socio-economic information worldwide about the
risk of climate change caused by human
activity, its potential environmental and socio-economic
consequences, and possible options for adapting to these
consequences or mitigating the effects.

SOURCE: http://www.ipcc.ch/
Remember these are climatologists…

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SOURCE: http://www.ipcc.ch/ipccreports/tar/wg3/index.php?idp=60 58
 1990
2003
1990 - International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI) was
established by 200 local governments from 43 countries convened at the World Congress of Local Governments
for a Sustainable Future, at the UN in New York City.

2003 -ICLEI's Members voted to revise the organization's mission, charter and name to better reflect the current
challenges local governments are facing. The name changed to ICLEI - Local Governments for
Sustainability with a broader mandate to address sustainability issues.
ICLEI supports local governments in finding and implementing local solutions to global challenges by:

1. Helping local governments to establishing plans of action to meet their locally defined, concrete,
measurable targets

2. Working toward meeting these targets through the implementation of projects and by offering tools
that help local governments to reach their goals

3. Evaluating local and cumulative progress toward sustainable development and making
the commitments and actions of local governments known on a global level

4. Working in partnership with regional, national and international organizations and

institutions to ensure an international framework that supports local action

SOURCE: http://www.iclei.org/
SOURCE: http://www.iclei.org/index.php?id=global-themes
SOURCE:
 United Nations Conference on Environment and
Development (UNCED) in Rio de Janeiro
172 Governments, 108 heads of State or Government and 17,000 people attended the Forum in
1992 including 2,400 Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs).
Conference Secretary General - Maurice F. Strong
Organized by the UNCED Secretariat

Principal themes: Environment and Sustainable Development

Resulting document: Agenda 21
1. Rio Declaration on Environment and Development - 27 Principles
2. Statement of Forest Principles - 15 Principles and 38 Sub-Principles
3. UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and ,
4. UN Convention on Biological Diversity
 UNCBD directly affects private property rights and land use. It authorized the
production of the Global Biodiversity Assessment - a
massive, 1,140-page document that provides the "scientific" basis for
implementing the Convention on Biological Diversity and other environmental
treaties. It discusses land-use extensively (+-400 pages).
Some of the more poignant revelations may be found in Section 11.2.3.13:

"Property rights are not absolute and unchanging

but rather a complex, dynamic and shifting relationship between two
or more parties, over space and time."

SOURCE: http://www.un.org/geninfo/bp/enviro.html
The Wildlands Project
SOURCE: http://proliberty.com/observer/20091223.htm
“I am especially concerned about the effect of the treaty on private property
rights in my State and throughout America. Private property is constitutionally protected, yet one of the draft
protocols to this treaty proposes "an increase in the area and connectivity of habitat." It envisions buffer
zones and corridors connecting habitat areas where human use will be
severely limited. Are we going to agree to a treaty that will require the U.S. Government to condemn property
for wildlife highways? Are we planning to pay for this property? One group, the Maine Conservation Rights Institute, has
prepared maps of what this would mean. I do not know if they are accurate yet, but that is my point. Neither do the
proponents of this treaty.
Article 10 of the treaty states that we must "protect and encourage customary use of biological resources that are
compatible with conservation or sustainable use requirements"--as set by the treaty. Whether our ranchers could
continue to use public and private land for grazing could depend not just on the Secretary of the Interior's latest grazing
This bio-
rulemaking, but on whether grazing is considered a compatible use for conservation under the treaty .
diversity treaty could preempt the decisions of local, State, and Federal
lawmakers for use of our natural resources. The details that are left for negotiation could
subject every wetlands permit, building permit, waste disposal permit, and incidental taking permit to international
review.

We would be subjecting property owners to international review, which would be yet

another step in the already egregious bureaucratic processes, just to have the very basic permits necessary for the use
of their own private property.”

SOURCE: http://sovereignty.net/p/land/crhutchison.htm
As Secretary-General of UN Earth Summit in 1992, Mr. Strong ranted against the lifestyles of the “rich
countries.” He declared that…

“The United States is clearly the greatest risk” to the world’s ecological health.” Strong
further charged…“The United States is committing environmental aggression against the rest

of the world.”
In a 1991 UNCED report, Strong wrote…

“It is clear that current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle-class…
involving high meat intake, consumption of large amount of frozen and ‘convenience’ foods,
ownership of motor-vehicles, numerous electric household appliances, home and workplace
air conditioning…suburban housing…are not sustainable.”

SOURCE: http://soldierforliberty.wordpress.com/2009/10/19/maurice-strong-man-behind-agenda-21/
 Quote from West Magazine, May 1990 “The Wizard of Baca Grande”

Reference from “The Creature from Jekyll Island”

by G. Edward Griffin, 5th edition, 2010, Page 532

“The world's ecosystems can be preserved only if

the affluent nations of the world can be disciplined
into lowering their standard of living. Production
and consumption must be curtailed. To bring that about, those
nations must submit to rationing, taxation, and political
domination by world government. They will probably not do
that voluntarily, so they will have to be forced. To accomplish
that, it will be necessary to engineer a global monetary crisis
which will destroy their economic systems. Then they will have
no choice but to accept assistance and control from the UN.“
Maurice Strong
“We must make this an insecure and inhospitable place for capitalists and their projects. We must
reclaim the roads and plowed land, halt dam construction, tear down existing dams, free shackled
rivers and return to wilderness millions of tens of millions of acres of presently settled land.”
David Foreman, Earth First
SOURCE: http://www.targetofopportunity.com/earth_first.htm

Dave Foreman (born 1947) is a US environmentalist and co-founder of the radical

environmental movement Earth First!

He co-founded the Wildlands Project, which aims to establish a network of protected wilderness areas across North
America.
From 1995 to 1997, he served on the Sierra Club’s board of directors, [1] but departed after the organisation rejected his
proposed policy on restrictive immigration.
In 1997, Foreman co-founded the New Mexico Wilderness Alliance.
In 2003, Dave Foreman and the board of directors of the Wildlands Project founded a new think tank, the Rewilding
Institute, dedicated to "the development and promotion of ideas and strategies to advance continental-scale conservation
in North America and to combat the extinction crisis."
“The only hope for the world is to make sure there is not another United States: We can’t let other
countries have the same number of cars, the amount of industrialization, we have in the U.S. We
have to stop these Third World countries right where they are. And it is important to the rest of the
world to make sure that they don’t suffer economically by virtue of our stopping them.”
Michael Oppenheimer, Environmental Defense Fund
SOURCE: http://climategate.tv/tag/michael-oppenheimer