{"id":3263,"date":"2012-02-20T15:13:09","date_gmt":"2012-02-20T15:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rtcc.org\/?p=3263"},"modified":"2012-02-20T15:13:09","modified_gmt":"2012-02-20T15:13:09","slug":"sustainable-development-%e2%80%9cno-pipedream%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.climatechangenews.com\/2012\/02\/20\/sustainable-development-%e2%80%9cno-pipedream%e2%80%9d\/","title":{"rendered":"Sustainable development \u201cno pipedream\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By <a href=\"http:\/\/www.climatechangenews.com\/about-us\" target=\"_blank\">RTCC Staff<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3265\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3265\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3265 \" title=\"bob watson chief scientist defra source defra 400\" src=\"http:\/\/www.climatechangenews.com\/files\/2012\/02\/bob-watson-chief-scientist-defra-source-defra-4001-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"bob watson chief scientist defra\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.climatechangenews.com\/files\/2012\/02\/bob-watson-chief-scientist-defra-source-defra-4001-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.climatechangenews.com\/files\/2012\/02\/bob-watson-chief-scientist-defra-source-defra-4001.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3265\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Defra chief scientist Bob Watson says the current system &quot;is broken&quot;. (Source: Defra)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>A group of senior academics will today call for major shifts in government policy to avoid poverty, climate and biodiversity crises.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The paper will be presented to the UN Environment Programme\u2019s (UNEP) governing council meeting in Nairobi, by 20 former winners of the Blue Planet Prize, sometimes referred to as the Nobel Prize for the environment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<a title=\"Ban Ki-moon: Sustainable energy for all is achievable\" href=\"http:\/\/www.climatechangenews.com\/business\/ban-ki-moon-sustainable-energy-for-all-achievable\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sustainable development<\/a> is not a pipe dream,\u201d said Dr Camilla Toulmin, director of the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is the destination the world\u2019s accumulated knowledge points us towards, the fair future that will enable us to live with security, peace and opportunities for all. To get there we must transform the ways we manage, share and interact with the environment, and acknowledge that humanity is part of nature not apart from it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Nairobi meeting marks the 40th anniversary of UNEP and will also serve as a forum for the Rio+20 summit in June this year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe current system is broken,\u201d said Prof. Sir Bob Watson, Chief Scientific Adviser to the UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), who will present the paper.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is driving humanity to a future that is 3-5\u00b0C warmer than our species has ever known, and is eliminating the ecology that we depend on for our health, wealth and senses of self.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The EU environment commissioner Janez Poto\u010dnik said the UNEP ministerial meeting would serve as a test-bed for the block\u2019s Rio+20 proposals.<\/p>\n<p>A leaked document detailing the proposed framework for <a title=\"Spelman: \u201cSustainable Development Goals\u201d needed ahead of Rio +20\" href=\"http:\/\/www.climatechangenews.com\/business\/spelman-%e2%80%9csustainable-development-goals%e2%80%9d-needed-ahead-of-rio-20\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sustainable Development Goals<\/a> for the Rio summit was criticised earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>Indian officials claimed that references the draft provided a \u201c<a title=\"India: Rio+20 goals are \u201ca backdoor for caps on emissions\u201d\" href=\"http:\/\/www.climatechangenews.com\/policy\/india-rio20-goals-are-%e2%80%9ca-backdoor-for-caps-on-emissions%e2%80%9d\/\" target=\"_blank\">backdoor to emissions cuts<\/a>\u201d. 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