Environment
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The conventional wisdom will tell you that the MDGs targets – reducing poverty and hunger, improving the health of mothers and children, combating HIV/AIDS, increasing access to education, protecting the environment, and forging a global partnership for development – are simply unattainable.
We should not underestimate humans’ abilities to inflict damage on their community, their environment, and even the entire planet.
In Juliana v. United States, the plaintiffs argue that because they will have to live with the repercussions of global warming for much longer than anyone else, on average, the government’s failure to protect the
environment
violates their constitutional rights to equal protection under the law and due process.
The philosopher Peter Singer points out that this case represents a historical turning point, because it addresses the rights of children and future Americans to a livable
environment.
But the trial is about more than the environment; it will have far-reaching implications for intergenerational justice more broadly.
That is what we are seeing today, both in the Trump administration’s claims that Juliana is nonjusticiable, and in US law’s antiquated failure to recognize future Americans’ rights to a livable environment, unburdened by excessive debt.
Likewise, in respect of the
environment
and energy, whatever the financial pressures, if we think that the earth’s climate is probably changing as a result of human activity, we need to set the global economy on a low carbon path to the future.
After all, the central bank’s credibility has been essential to enable the implementation of policies that have provided the government with room to maneuver in a difficult domestic and external
environment.
The productivity of aid has also improved because of progress in the policy
environment
and the investment climate in developing countries.
Even the political
environment
may not be as inauspicious as is often believed: Despite the worrying rise of anti-European sentiment in many countries – especially those hit hardest by the crisis – there is a palpable yearning among Europeans to break out of the continent’s debilitating economic (and political) rut.
And, because the social
environment
has powerful effects through the brain on the rest of the body, public and private-sector policies can have a positive impact on health, providing a top-down benefit to brain and body function.
First and foremost, policymakers must secure the financing needed to pursue sustainable development in an uncertain global
environment.
And when farmers uses antibiotics to speed the growth of chickens and other livestock, drug-resistant germs find new ways to enter the
environment.
Aren’t firms that despoil the environment, use child labor, or provide hazardous employment conditions also a source of unfair competition?
The US economy will also be operating in a more difficult global
environment.
The Rio Declaration, issued at the Earth Summit in 1992, recognizes a responsibility to ensure that activities do not damage other states’
environment
or that of areas beyond the limits of national jurisdiction.
Further attempts to sustainably manage the marine
environment
emerged 10 years after the Rio meeting, at the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg, South Africa.
The bottom line is that the present value of benefits from “greening” the fishing sector is estimated to be 3-5 times the investment – an excellent return for both people and the ocean
environment.
Equally important, Africa’s leaders must work to improve the business
environment.
Consider the strides Rwanda has made since 2007, when it established a development board to improve its business
environment.
An unresolved financial crisis, a refugee crisis, a deteriorating security environment, and a stalled integration process have created throughout Europe a toxic, unstable political
environment
in which populism and nationalism thrive.
The EU has mechanisms to regulate economic policies, safeguard the environment, and police the Single Market.
In any case, the bottom line is that, as a hostile global
environment
brings to the fore their leaders’ economic mismanagement, Latin American voters are becoming increasingly disenchanted.
Given this highly uncertain environment, what can GCC policymakers do to address their fiscal-policy challenges?
People across Latin America must unite to preserve their sovereignty, their environment, and respect for human rights, all of which are systematically being violated.
The problems we see in the financial markets have very much to do with lack of good information, misaligned incentives, and, in fact, rational responses to the
environment.
Such conditions indicated that something was wrong with the individual, not with his
environment.
Globalizing European SecurityMADRID – Global security – a safe and peaceful
environment
free of conflict – is a public good.
In this environment, deepening Europe’s defense and security integration would appear to be low on the list of priorities.
Nothing, though, can replace support and help within these young peoples’ immediate
environment.
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