GGR345H5 Chapter Notes -Millennium Summit, Structural Adjustment, Nobel Peace Prize
Document Summary
Nothing new really came out of the conference. Many say that the chance at a new energy world order was blown when changes where not. A lot of energy and talk came out if it. But after a little bit the excitement began to die down and everything was business as usual. Nobel peace prize to ipcc (intergovernmental panel of climate change) and al gore for building awareness on connection between human activities and climate change. Extensive climate changes were likely to alter and threaten the living conditions of much of humankind, placing particularly heavy burdens on the world"s most vulnerable countries. Undp said climate change is a proven scientific fact and we now know enough to recognize there are large risks, potentially catastrophic ones. Sustainable development: dealing with the issue of global climate change, pollution, and biodiversity depletion and the such while simultaneously tackling global inequality and poverty and not letting the wheels come off the world economy.
