UNITED NATIONS - / MaximsNews Network / 21 April 2008 -- One week before the world’s acknowledged Earth Day, it seemed appropriate to attend a presentation/book signing for Jeffrey Sachs’ recently published book entitled “Common Wealth”.   

Released to the public in March, “Common Wealth” addresses the necessary economics for a crowded planet. 

Essentially, the book focuses on the vital need to pursue a new economic paradigm that is global, inclusive, cooperative, environmentally aware, and science-based.

Future prosperity will only be attained by implementing new strategies for achieving sustainable development – strategies that will complement market forces, stabilize the global population, encourage the development and use of new practical technologies, and enable the billion poorest people to escape from the trap of extreme poverty.

According to Jeffrey Sachs, the issues of environment, public health, population growth and extreme poverty are critical and are likely to become key determinants when it comes to an existing state of war and/or peace.  

Future relationships among countries really need to be defined by a new era of global cooperation around a set of shared goals for achieving and maintaining some kind of level of sustainable development. 

In his presentation, Jeffrey Sachs emphasized the importance of making public policy investments for a sustainable future – particularly those investments that can  better open the doors more effectively within the poorer countries around the world. 

And notable in his remarks was his advice to a new US government administration that will arrive in late January 2009.  The following recommendations were made:

• End the Iraq War immediately

• End the tax cuts

• Invest in sustainable technologies

• Immediately end the subsidies for ethanol

• Send a “climate envoy” around the world to show that the US is back and ready to assume a leadership position

• Commit to international treaties like the Convention of Biological Diversity and the UN Convention on Law of the Sea. Additionally, obey the Geneva Convention

• Invite the Heads of State from water-stressed countries like Senegal, Chad, and Saudi Arabia as well as Mayors of US cities that are water-challenged in order to develop a comprehensive viable dry lands initiative

• Contribute to the refinancing of the UN Population Fund

• Make the UN-declared MDG’s an important US global policy objective for effectively focusing on the challenges of hunger, poverty and disease

• Create a cabinet-level position that is focused on global sustainable development

Jeffrey Sachs concluded his presentation by re-enforcing the need to create a world that is safe for diversity, that better enables the various populations of the world to live together on an increasingly crowded planet, and that more effectively seeks to implement a plan for achieving global sustainable development.

Governments around the world and players operating within the international development community have a challenge to tackle. 

Let’s work together to achieve some viable results.

Labels: United Nations, U.N., MaximsNews WATER, water, Jeffrey Sachs, book, Common Wealth, economics, economy, poverty, Millennium Development Goals, MDG, sustainable development, Kathy Shandling

 

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