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2. Growth and Environmental Degradation.
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1. 1 REPUBLIC OF THE SUDAN THE PRESIDENCY The New Partnership for Africas Development (NEPAD)
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3. 3 It squandered the resources of our planet : materials and energy and it generated enormous waste. The model could not has been possible had it not been accompanied by the immorality of imperialism, colonization and capture of the weak world's resource and markets.
The toxic emissions from the so called civilized world have put the entire world's climate system at risk, externalizing the illicit consequence of their attained prosperity to the less fortunate and less able to deal with its implications.
4. 4 This is not the Model of Growth for the new world to emulate and the culprits must come to terms with a new world where rape of resource and markets is no longer feasible.
5. 5 Biological Base of the Economic System After all we should not loose sight of the biological under- pinning of our economic systems.
Today the economic signs of ecological stress are visible everywhere : soil erosion of the croplands, grasslands, and deforestation, declining fisheries , destroyed wetlands and floods and droughts.
6. 6 The stresses would at the next level manifest themselves in economic terms , social distress and eventual civil strife and political unrest.
Darfur is a case in-point of the complex impact of environmental change manifesting themselves in economic and social stress and eventual civil strife.
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11. 11 New Model of Development Humanity has no choice but to reinvent a new human development model friendly to the environment.
The strong and rich must restrain their excessive demand on our planet resources; Humanity should wisely seek to harness energy and material supply from our universe, together with renewable resources of our planet.
12. 12 The New Model of Human Development entails low-cost engineering and lean production processes, focusing on material and energy productivity, and restraining wasteful consumption and greed. (The Economist No. dated ).
The core of the New Model would enhance "global environment justice"; This notion of justice demands in the first place outright enforcement of prohibition of dumping of toxic waste in the poor world.
13. 13 Global environment justice , demands secondly, adhering forcefully to the principle of Polluters Pay the Price PPP so as to support the helpless victims in Africa and elsewhere by comprehensive remedial and medicating measures: capacity enhancement to deal with the adverse consequences of environmental degradation , revival of crop lands , grass lands and aforestation, enhancing rainfed farming, organic pastures and rural water harvest.
14. 14 Yet in the midst of gloom a ray of hope shine for the distant future of Africa; USA Energy Minister while he was at Berkeley Institute conceived the idea of a global glucose economy, to supplant mankind dependence on oil. Fast-growing crops would be planted in the tropics, where sunlight is abundant. They would be converted into glucose (of which cellulose, which makes up much of the dry weight of a plant, is a polymer) and the glucose would be shipped around much as oil is today, for eventual conversion into biofuels and bioplastics.
15. 15 The Economist July 2, 2009
Africa the continent of the tropics is destined to save the world by transforming its largest industry : energy.
In Conclusion, I recall the African Union 2007 commitment to integrate climate change and climate change adaptation strategies into national and sub-regional development policies.
Thank You,,,,
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