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Earth Summit > Background
> Our demands
Greenpeace's checklist for a successful summit
Energy |
Forests | Genetic Engineering
and Agriculture | Toxics | Oceans
| Trade and Development
Energy and climate
- Ratification of the Kyoto
Protocol on climate
change.
- Commitment to new public financing for renewable
energy, to provide power to the two billion people in the world
currently without electricity.
- A commitment from industrialised countries to
an immediate target of 20 percent of their energy sector lending
to renewable energy development.
- A commitment from industrialised countries to
set domestic renewable energy targets of 20 percent within 10
years.
- A commitment from all countries to phase out
subsidies to fossil and nuclear industries - currently estimated
at about $250 billion (US) per year - with 10 years, with an effective
transition plan to assist developing countries' economies.
For more information on these issues visit the
Greenpeace climate
site.
Forests
- Commitment to allocate the necessary funds for
ancient forests conservation and sustainable use, under the Convention
on Biological Diversity's Ancient Forest work program.
- A commitment to implement immediate measures
to halt ancient forest degradation and loss, and to promote ancient
forest conservation and sustainable use.
For more information on these issues visit the
Greenpeace forests
site.
Genetic Engineering and
Agriculture
- Ratification of the Cartagena
Protocol on Biosafety and support for the precautionary
principle.
- Give priority to agricultural practices that
respect traditional knowledge and the environment, such as eco-agriculture,
which has been proven to increase yields. Development groups such
as Oxfam agree with Greenpeace that genetic engineering is not
a solution to world hunger.
- Adopt a new instrument that prevents the patenting
of life, and opposition to the World Trade Organisation's TRIPS
approach, which deems life to be intellectual property.
- A commitment to allowing no irreversible release
of Genetically Modified Organisms.
For more information on these issues visit the
Greenpeace genetic engineering site.
Toxics
- Ratification of the Stockholm Convention on
persistent organic pollutants, which would ban chemicals such
as dioxin.
- Ratify and implement the Basel Convention that
bans trade in toxic waste.
- Ensure corporate responsibility and liability
for the ongoing production and use of toxics, and clean-up of
toxic hot-spots such as Bhopal, for which Dow Chemical continues
to evade responsibility.
For more information on these issues visit the
Greenpeace toxics site.
Oceans
- A commitment from the United Nations General
Assembly to negotiate an international agreement for the protection
of marine biodiversity on the high seas.
- A commitment preventing the release of
genetically engineered organisms into the oceans.
For more information on these issues visit the
Greenpeace oceans site.
Trade and Development Aid
- Agreement that trade rules must be subordinate
to environmental rules, not the reverse.
- A commitment from governments that it
they will meet a percent of their GDP for international aid, which
they committed to at the Rio Earth Summit.
For more information on these issues visit
the Greenpeace politics site.
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