Thirty years passed since
the expression “sustainable development” first appears in 1972
during the conference of Stockholm
Fifteen years after, the
report of Norwegian Prime Minister Bruntland created at the request of the
united nations elaborated the sustainable development approach.
takes account of environmental
issues in all activities
speaks of social
responsibilities for workers and local communities and,
addresses Human rights
Human rights in this case
includes
the place of women in the work and
society itself
Problem of exploitation of children's
and
The rights of different
minorities
The sustainable
development has become, among other thing, a quest for synthesis between
Environnemental welfare
Local development
Solidarities in each economic
act
A means of improving North
south hemisphere relations
Do we prepare the schools of
tomorrow for all the children?
The minimum of social
protection
A good level for health care
Access to water
Do we protect agricultures of
the South countries in which 90% of people are living off this activity ?
Are we able to set up programs
of cooperation for more economical initiatives ?
The ethical trade
Le commerce equitable
El commercio justo
Begin to be recognize as a
good practice
President Bush said a few days
ago that the game was over, but if the game is not over,
are we able to accept and international rule that take into
account the fact that for most
countries, the state is really very poor, the economical initiatives are not
sufficient.
No power for the public sector,
no real market
Can we organize in WTO a special statute to favourite
what we call in Europe social
economy ?
Such an approach could provide
real hope for real change.
One way to begin changing countries is to create a judicial support to
produce ONG's, cooperatives…can
we give to those organizations different rule than the hard rules of WTO .Such
rules often makes no sense for developing countries.
If we –North America and European union- don’t protect our
agricultures with many subsidies and we accept to let the market do, the south
countries could sell us for 60 billions $ of products .
In such a way that their profit will be more than the system of
subsidies.
The reality is cruel: we oblige them to support the rule of the market
when is good for us and set up barriers and protection when it could be good
for them.
The cooperative-bank were born to organize an financial insurance for
poor workers
The mutuality for health care
The democratization is an element of the sustainable development
In ten years
the Rio signatories made progress
Biodiversity,
climate, CFC’s,
Kyoto’s protocol, different international discussions have had a good level. But the problem is
the same. When we are speaking about the problem of biodiversity, we tell to
the south to be responsible in their choices and practices.
When we must
accept the consequences of the
Kyoto’s protocol , some of the developed states refuse to give
their signature.
In the last ten
years, private enterprises have come to understand that the concept of
sustainable development is an element of their future. Some have organize
defensive strategies on it,
Others considered
that the best strategy is to go further and take an advantage.
Is an
economical activity pertinent for the future?
What is the
real social utility of products?
What are the
health and secure conditions for the production ?
Impacts on immediat
environment
Impacts for
global environmental issues
What need the
production as rare full resources?
Can you recycle
the product ?
Recycling
materials are they used for the production itself?
Is it possible
to have a more efficiency for the flux of:
Materials, Soil, water, transport,
atmosphere, energies
The international chamber of commerce ask for a
strategy
board to the
GEMI foundation in washington in 1992.
Since this time
the notion of rating progress towards sustainability has begun to appear in the
law
It’s the case
in France since two years.
Local
authorities set up global programs
With
an approach of all the stake-holders of a territory
With a
participative method .
Producing a
referent document to give a clear definition of the purposes, issues,
objectives they want to pursue
.
Efficiency for every
sector, including construction
Organization
for freight
Wastes of
people, common wastes of enterprises, toxic wastes
Their research
is in fact an optimization of every thing in an ecological, social and
economical point of view.
More values
with less negative impacts
The research
could be the conditions of a qualitative growth
Promoting new
energies
The high
environmental quality in buildings
Intermodality,
alternatives solutions to the individual car
This research
is at the heart of the question of the new relations between public and private
sector
For example, the local authorities develop new areas because of a low price perceived on their part
But society may incure hidden cost that, both public and private sectors must pay for in the long term, including water supply, energy and waste handling…
At the end the so-called low cost of a development may be very high .
Are we able to adapt our systems to make them become clear for more efficiency ?
Are we able to introduce discussions up on the price of the ground, systems of taxes ?
Can we introduce the concept of recycling financial flux for a better using?
Have we adapted our financial system to produce new responses ?
What must be
the new posture of the different actors ?
Enterprises must
include those preoccupations in their strategies
The local
authorities must expand their vision in evaluating developments projects
The principal
level of public authorities must produce news rules to help such a process.
To make the
transition easier
To give to all the
actors the best conditions
To organize the
system
To invent new
rules of the game that will be needed to move towards sustainability
For the services,
we need transparency: that’s true for private even public services
Who makes a real comparison
of price and consequences for the choice of a new investment
Are the systems of
taxes we’ve have set up after the second war, adapted for these new
approach ?
Is the financial
world able to propose dispositions of investments that in the final analysis
will not simply give money to those who already have money, but rather to encourage investments that
benefit everyone
The rule could be
the efficiency of invest and accessibility for every body: individual, public
authorities, enterprises
Must we organize a
new metric to identify investments
that have low total operating costs and encourage their financial success ?
May be could we
propose that a part of funds take this orientation, because the research of a
quick and short profit is the contrary of sustainable development which support
a vision of long term and global profit.
If we need to
support a strong investment for best development, new energies, new
transportation….the discussions between public and private sector must
have for principal purpose to set up a new deal,
for more social,
ecological and economical efficiency, without wrong ideological fights, with
transparency and intellectual perspicacity.
The good policies
are the one who organize the clear convergence between interests that are
different.
This is the real program
for the twenty first century.
This is an
evolutionary political program
Without to know
what could happens in those
crucial days, I’m sure that if we don’t set up such a plan for
human development and if we don’t pursuit strongly this way we will know
a world of tensions and war, more and more.
In this
way of thinking, we could say, that the sustainable development is the only
strategy of peace.