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U.N. panel to address sustainability
UNITED NATIONS, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon Monday named an international panel that is to come up with a "blueprint" for sustainable global growth.
Ban said he told the panel to "think big" as it works to complete its work by the end of 2011.
"The time for narrow agendas and narrow thinking is over," he said in a release.
"In short, we need a new blueprint for a more livable, prosperous and sustainable future for all."
He said it's essential the plan takes into account the need for low-carbon growth, and address the challenges posed by poverty, hunger, water resources and energy security.
The group will be led by Tarja Halonen, president of Finland, and Jacob Zuma, president of South Africa.
The 21-member High-Level Panel on Global sustainability also includes: Gro Harlem Brundtland, Han Seung-soo, Yukio Hatoyama, Luisa Dias Diogo and Kevin Rudd, the former prime ministers of Norway, the Republic of Korea, Japan, Mozambique and Australia, respectively; Barbadian Prime Minister David Thompson; United Arab Emirates Foreign Minister Sheik Abdallah Bin Zayid al-Nahayan; Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Ali Babacan; Switzerland's Foreign Minister Micheline Calmy-Rey; Russian presidential aide Alexander Bedritsky; Nigerian presidential adviser Hajiya Amina Az-Zubair; Zheng Guogang, director of China's Meteorological Administration; Lawrence Balsillie, chairman of the board of the Center for International Governance Innovation; Susan E. Rice, U.S. permanent representative to the United Nations; former environment ministers Jairam Ramesh of India, Julia Carabias of Mexico and Cristina Narbona Ruiz of Spain; and Connie Hedegaard, the European Union's commissioner for climate change.
UNITED NATIONS, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon Monday named an international panel that is to come up with a "blueprint" for sustainable global growth.
Ban said he told the panel to "think big" as it works to complete its work by the end of 2011.
"The time for narrow agendas and narrow thinking is over," he said in a release.
"In short, we need a new blueprint for a more livable, prosperous and sustainable future for all."
He said it's essential the plan takes into account the need for low-carbon growth, and address the challenges posed by poverty, hunger, water resources and energy security.
The group will be led by Tarja Halonen, president of Finland, and Jacob Zuma, president of South Africa.
The 21-member High-Level Panel on Global sustainability also includes: Gro Harlem Brundtland, Han Seung-soo, Yukio Hatoyama, Luisa Dias Diogo and Kevin Rudd, the former prime ministers of Norway, the Republic of Korea, Japan, Mozambique and Australia, respectively; Barbadian Prime Minister David Thompson; United Arab Emirates Foreign Minister Sheik Abdallah Bin Zayid al-Nahayan; Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Ali Babacan; Switzerland's Foreign Minister Micheline Calmy-Rey; Russian presidential aide Alexander Bedritsky; Nigerian presidential adviser Hajiya Amina Az-Zubair; Zheng Guogang, director of China's Meteorological Administration; Lawrence Balsillie, chairman of the board of the Center for International Governance Innovation; Susan E. Rice, U.S. permanent representative to the United Nations; former environment ministers Jairam Ramesh of India, Julia Carabias of Mexico and Cristina Narbona Ruiz of Spain; and Connie Hedegaard, the European Union's commissioner for climate change.
