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February 3rd, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda - Ban Ki-moon warns Earth will run out of sustainable resources
- Critics say UN report lacks concrete proposals
- World needs 50% more food by 2030 – but Earth’s natural resources are running out
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Rob Cooper
Last updated at 8:39 PM on 2nd February 2012
Drive: Ban Ki-moon has put sustainability at the centre of his second-term at the UN
The UN Secretary-General has said Governments need to work together to create a ‘more sustainable’ future as he warned that the Earth is running out of scarce resources.
Ban Ki-moon spoke out as a landmark UN report was published which said society needs to look beyond GDP as an indicator of economic performance.
The Secretary-General said: ‘We need to chart a new, more sustainable course for the future, one
that strengthens equality and economic growth while protecting our
planet.’
The panel who put the report together, headed by Finnish President Tarja Halonen and South African President Jacob Zuma, produced a list of 56 recommendations as they laid down a roadmap to ‘low-carbon prosperity’.
The study – Resilient People, Resilient Planet: A Future Worth Choosing – was published in Addis Ababa at an African Union meeting.
A Rio+20 summit will meet in the Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in June to discuss the proposals in the report.
Critics have said that while the verbose 100-page report is full of tough talk it lacks concrete proposals.
Sustainable future: The report says consumers should pay the full price of products – including electricity – taking into account all the social and environmental costs
As the study was published, Jacob Zuma said in a statement: ‘With the possibility of the world
slipping further into recession, policymakers are hungry for ideas that
can help them to navigate these difficult times.
‘Our report makes clear that sustainable development is more
important than ever given the multiple crises now enveloping the world.’
It warns that if people continue to exploit the earth’s natural resources as they do today it will cause ‘irreversible damage to both ecosystems and human communities’.
Panel: The report was produced by a panel led by Tarja Halonen, the Finnish president, left, and South African president Jacob Zuma
However, with the world’s population rising rapidly, we will need 50 per cent more food, 45 per cent more energy and 30 per cent more water by 2030.
With economies around the world addicted to oil, the group said nations need to fully integrate the social and environmental costs into the prices of products to protect natural resources.
Put in practical terms, the cost of exotic fruits jetted in from around the world would have to rise so that consumers fully pay for the impact that air freight has on the environment.
Among the other recommendations, the authors call for an end to ‘perverse’ fossil fuel subsidies by 2020.
They also demand that health and education improve and call for fresh steps to be taken to reduce gender inequality.
Jim Leape, director-general of
Swiss-based WWF International, one of the world’s largest conservation
groups, said the recommendations are ‘the highest-level political signal
yet of greater readiness’ by world leaders to transition away from
fossil fuels.
However, in a statement the group also
criticised the U.N. report because it ‘fails to suggest any concrete,
time-bound commitments for progress, leaving policies open to
governments to implement as they saw fit.’
The U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon created the 22-member high-level panel who produced the study in August 2010.
The Rio+20 conference scheduled for
June is a follow-up to the landmark 1992 Earth Summit in Rio that
galvanised the global environmental movement.
It was at that gathering two decades ago that the world first agreed to accept voluntary controls on greenhouse gases.
National leaders signed up to a treaty committing to work ‘to protect the climate system for present and future generations.’
Five years later the Kyoto agreement was signed which committed countries to emissions cuts.
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Firstly, the UN is an arbiter of disputes between nations. It is trying to become THE lawmaking body for the world and is exceeding it’s remit, (even trying to make the Geneva Convention and Hiag Conventions an enshrined edict under it’s auspices). In other words, THE one world central Government. Look up the “Law of the sea Treaty” and the interference this devious body has in European affairs that the EU supinely accepts and imposes upon us as law. The UN needs to be shut down!!!
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The UN is not relevant anymore. That has been shown to us in the Balkan wars ,the Iraq war and in Rwanda.
It is a meaningless body and its high time its offices were closed and the leaders sent back to their respective countries. Wonder who pays all the cash to sustain such a monstrous and meaningless organisation.
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Corrupt to the core ….
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Ah the New World Order speaks. perhaps somone should tip him the wink that his cover is blown and no one outside hid UN bubble with even a single brain cell any longer now believes him!
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