Menneskelig udvikling drejer sig om at gøre Jorden beboelig for vore efterkommere – det skal seks nye bæredygtige udviklingsmål klare – ellers vil menneskeheden undergrave enhver fremtidig målsætning for fremgang, gør forskerne gældende. JOHANNESBURG, 21 March 2013 (IRIN): Development can no longer focus exclusively on improving people’s lives. Countries must now link poverty eradication to protection of the atmosphere, oceans and land, said a group of international scientists in a comment piece published Thursday in the journal Nature. They propose six Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that do just that. The UN has committed to developing a set of SDGs to build upon the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs = 2015 Målene), which come to an end in two years time. But the UN’s first meeting on defining the SDGs has just ended in New York, with countries still undecided on the way forward. “It is not enough simply to extend MDGs, as some are suggesting, because humans are transforming the planet in ways that could undermine development gains,” write the 10 scientists in their article, “Policy: Sustainable development goals for people and planet”. The group is led by David Griggs, the director of the Monash Sustainability Institute in Australia and the former head of the scientific assessment unit of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC = FNs klimapanel). Co-author Johan Rockström, director of the Stockholm Resilience Centre, said: “Mounting research shows we are now at the point that the stable functioning of Earth systems is a prerequisite (forudsætning) for a thriving global society and future development.” Their proposed SDGs aim to ensure: * thriving lives and livelihoods; * sustainable food security; * sustainable water security; * universal clean energy; * healthy and productive ecosystems; and * governance (god ledelse) for sustainable societies. A new model Læs videre på http://www.irinnews.org/Report/97700/Scientists-call-for-development-goals-to-protect-Earth
