Urgency

• On the way for Copenhagen …

The blow D ’ sending is given to Copenhagen, in Denmark. The greatest International Conference devoted to the climate changes which brings together some 15.000 participants resulting from 193 countries S ’ is open on December 7, 2009. Twelve days of debates of which much D ’ actors ecologists awaits constraining concrete decisions and engagements, in particular an imposing treaty of the directives to reduce L ’ gas emission to greenhouse effect (GES), beyond the dissension and of mistrust between the industrialized countries and the emergent countries.

The Summit of the United Nations on the climate change S ’ is open on December 7, 2009 for twelve days of conferences with for objective working out a new treaty, which will succeed the protocol of Kyoto of 1997, in order to prevent that the climate is not heated too much because of an aggravation of the greenhouse effect. At the time of the opening ceremony, Danish the Prime Minister, Lars Lokke Rasmussen, announced D ’ entered with the present: “the world places its hopes by hanging to you a short amount of time of the history of humanity”. An joint effort which seems insurmountable for much country from which the claims differ according to average the qu ’ they put in œ uvrent to hold their economy with flood.

Indeed, the independent source of dissensions as regards international policy of climate changes relates on targets in precise figure to be fixed and respect as regards reduction of the gas emissions with greenhouse effect, but also to the amount of the financing of the rich country intended to help the poor countries to adapt to the climate changes and going towards a green economic model an amount estimated at 100 billion euros per annum.

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• The Summit of FAO falls with L ’ water!

At the time when the hunger in the world touches close D ’ a billion people, the last top of FAO (United Nations for the hunger and the food) was completed last on November 18 in Rome in Italy into disappointing good number ONG (governmental organizations) implied in the hunger relief. Far from reabsorbing according to the experts, the food crisis which had started riots a little everywhere in the world in 2008 continues in L ’ general indifference.

At the time of the last World summit on the food safety which was held of the 16 at November 18, 2009 in Rome, no engagement quantified nor calendar N ’ was concludes between the 192 Member States from FAO. Even the deadline of 2025 which was initially envisaged was eliminated from the adopted final document, and the participants engaged vaguely with “éradiquer the hunger in the world. ”

Vis-a-vis this status quo, L ’ ActionAid organization deplored the waste of this top which could have been “the occasion to prevent a billion people from being famished. ” As for International Oxfam, L ’ association regretted the quasi total absence of leaders of the rich countries which “sent a bad signal to the beginning of the top. Indeed”, put aside L ’ Italy, country host of the Summit, no leader of the countries of G8 N ’ made displacement, and about sixty leaders present came primarily from the African continent and D ’ Latin America.
Also underlining L ’ unconcern of the leaders vis-a-vis infantile malnutrition, L ’ organization Doctors without borders affirmed for its part which “to neglect the fact that from 3,5 to 5 million children of less than five years die each year of malnutrition means in substance that the top failed. ” At the time of the debates, certain ONG moreover showed the multinationals of agro-alimentary, like the American giant Monsanto, to seek to seize million hectares of grounds belonging to the small farmers like L ’ massive use D ’ GMO (organization genetically modified) and of chemical fertilizers to the place D ’ to encourage sustainable development, in particular on the African continent.

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