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U.N. support to advance environmentalism
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Today we are facing serious issues such as global warming, endangered ecosystems, and dependence on fossil fuels; at the same time, more and more people are getting involved in protecting the environment through personal efforts, in cooperation with initiatives from various environmental groups.
The United Nations has made a great impact in helping advance this era of environmentalism by gathering resources to cultivate sustainability, promote renewable energy, safeguard biodiversity, and provide solutions for climate change.
For one, the United Nations Foundation supports the use of biofuels. The U.N. is working with the Energy Future Coalition, an international and independent alliance that endeavors to convey changes in the U.S. energy policy, to deal with the economic, security, and environmental issues associated with the production and utilization of fossil fuels. With the evolution of this new energy economy, they also seek prospects for financially-viable advancement by bridging the disparities among business, labor, and environmental groups and discovering energy policy options in cooperation with policy makers. The coalition has formed six working groups to address specific areas such as Transportation, Bioenergy and Agriculture, the Future of Coal, End-Use Efficiency, the Smart Grid Working Group which concerned with the security of its network, and the International Working Group, concerned with the dissemination of sustainable energy technology to developing countries and the ways to enhance the use of this technology in underdeveloped countries. The United Nations also supported the campaign for the 25 x 25 vision for America’s energy future which campaigns for the use of renewable energy.
The United Nations Foundation is also working with the International Coral Reef Action Network (ICRAN) in protecting and putting a stop to crimes committed against coral reefs and marine life around the world. They also seek to overturn the decline of the reefs’ health which is threatened by human and natural activities.
The UN Foundation has recently published a report presenting to G8 countries (France, Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom, Canada, Japan, Russia, and the United States) some solutions in the reduction of energy waste by reinforcing energy efficiency to a rate of 2.5% per year, thereby lowering the cost of total energy and overall addressing the consequences of climate change.
Initiated by the United Nations, the Global Leadership for Climate Action (GLCA) is an assemblage of world leaders from over 20 countries. These leaders from business, civil, and government sectors work together to tackle climate change through international negotiations and developing a structure for a new international agreement on climate change that would feasibly extend beyond 2012.
In 2005, the UN Foundation launched the International Bioenergy Initiative which incorporates local resources and international markets to establish economic opportunities for rural populations and developing countries. It focuses on the expansion of energy access, promotion of new-trade opportunities, cross-sector sustainability advocacy, and financial investments in biofuels and bioenergy.
The United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) invited Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Society, to organize an international board of scientific professionals to arrange a report presenting resolutions to diminish climate change at the same time adjust to its current effects. This will be submitted to Climate Change on Sustainable Development. This effort consequently formed the Scientific Expert Group on Climate Change and Sustainable Development.
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