Special Paper No 2: A Promptbook on Sustainable Development for World Summit in Johannesburg

Abstract:

This Special Paper contends that three legs of sustainable development (environment, social & economic) require foundation of good governance and human rights. The author proposes innovative methods of funding through creation of a Global Commons Administration - 32 pages.

Notes:

Excerpts from Dr. Jawetz's Conclusions:
The Johannesburg Summit should take a pro-active position on the ratification of the Kyoto Protocols and should stress, that under the SD paradigm, Greenhouse Gas emissions should list the total of both - the past activity and the present activity of each UN member state. The Complete Sustainable Development Concept has to include a base on which the three proverbial legs of SD rest - the environmental leg, the economic development leg, and the social development leg. The foundation of the Complete SD Concept consists of human rights and good governance. Without this foundation the concept of SD cannot succeed. An in-house think-tank on energy is needed today more then ever at the UN. It is not that there will be a shortage in fossil fuels that must concern us, but rather the inevitability of the need to decrease their use is becoming the limiting factor. The proliferation of separate multilateral environmental agreements (MEAs) with headquarter offices in various corners of the globe does not make for a unified system that takes advantage of the synergies between the MEAs. The Johannesburg Summit should propose the establishment of a central location for all these different headquarters and make it possible for coherence in meetings of the "Conference of the Parties" (the COPs).