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At the beginning of this Summit, the children
of the world spoke to us in a simple yet clear voice that the future belongs to
them, and accordingly challenged all of us to ensure that through our actions
they will inherit a world free of the indignity and indecency occasioned by
poverty, environmental degradation and patterns of unsustainable development.
Report of the World Summit on Sustainable Development;
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earthmodal
Sustainable Planet
Management
Introduction to the work of United Nations and other global institutions. The
website is a portal to ecosystem centered three-pillar sustainability. Planet
Management includes the work-up for the managers' toolbox. It advocates
principles of strong sustainability.
earthmodal enables assembling a reference
bookshelf for the main issues of global sustainability. It is educational and
references documents from the United Nations and affiliates, as well as some US
and Euro departments. By permission UNEP, UNDP, EUROSTAT
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The Planet Manager Toolbox.
Through the United Nations we have an increasing amount of global scale activity
related to economics, human development, and the environment. Although there is
not at present any single authority whose work it is to manage the planet, there
are many coordinating bodies which support inter-government liaisons. The FAO
for example reports on agriculture, forest, and fisheries. Further many
different governments have their own management functions as for example
Canada's Department of Natural Resources. This does not prevent us from
conceiving of a collective function holistically representing all governments,
which then could supplement developing nations in their functioning.
Some of the items in the toolbox are yet to be developed, like Energy and
Minerals stocks and flows which is promised only for the year 2010. Others are
like Information and Communications Technology is split over many departments
like ITU - International Telecommunication Union; UPU-Universal Postal Union;
Commission on Science and Technology for Development and others.
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This website is created as a framework for modeling sustainability and for
documentation of the world's efforts to achieve lasting results for the future.
The sustainabilty library contains many documents that are referenced throughout
the site as well as some good handbooks and guides to help various parties to
participate either as individuals or as institutions.
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