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Millenium Consumption Goals by Thomas Brose
1. Climate Alliance
of European Cities with Indigenous Rainforest
Peoples
Achieving Global Justice in the
Green Economy
The Millennium Consumption Goals
Initiative
Thomas Brose
2. Report Gaia Foundation: Opening
Pandora´s Box – the new wave of land
grabbing by the extractive industries
Report of the special rapporteur to the
right to food:
„…overweight and obesity (…) cause even
more deaths worldwide than does
underweight.“
3. Why do we need Consumption
Goals?
The global economy driven by consumption
already uses natural resources equivalent to
1.5 planet earths
The 1.4 billion people in the richest 20th
percentile of the world’s population consume
over 80% of global output – 60 times more
than those in the poorest 20th percentile
Clearly, the consumption of the rich is not
only unsustainable, but also “crowding out”
the poor
4. Millennium Consumption Goals
What are the MCGs?
The Millennium Consumption Goals
Professor Mohan
Munasinghe is a Sri
(MCGs) seek to provide consumption
Lankan physicist and
economist. 2007 he targets designed to motivate the world’s
shared the Nobel Prize
for Peace, as Vice Chair
of the UN
rich to consume more sustainably
Intergovernmental Panel
on Climate Change The MCGs would start by addressing
(IPCC-AR4).
under-consumption of the poor
5. Millennium Consumption Goals
MCG Network:
- Consumers and producers
- Business
- Government (national and local)
- Financial institutions
6. Millennium Consumption Goals
MCG Network:
- Consumers and producers
- Business
- Government (national and local)
- Financial institutions
7. Millenium Consumption Goals
The Areas for action:
- Meet basic human needs (food, water,
energy,..)
- GHG emissions reduction
- Energy use
- Water use
- Land and biomass use
- Ores, metals and industrial minerals
- Construction materials and minerals
- Pollution and waste
8. Decision UK parliament in
preparation Rio+20
The Millennium Development Goals have helped shape aid
programmes, including the UK's, over the last decade. But,
globally, their targets appear likely to be missed by their 2015
end-date, and they have focussed attention on what needs to
change only in the developing world. The Government should
support work aimed at launching new Goals – Sustainability
Goals and Consumption Goals - at Rio+20, to shift the effort
towards the sustainable development and sustainable
consumption contributions that the UK and other
Developed countries now need to make. It should engage
with otherEuropean countries to ensure that the EU pushes
this agenda strongly ahead of Rio+20.
9. Climate Alliance
- More than 1,600 European Cities are
commited to reduce CO2 Emissions
- Also support indigenous peoples in the
Amazon basin (e.g. landrights)
- Some members are supporting the
MDGs and signed commitments to
develop activities
- Not only focus on the south but also in
the north there are poors and excluded
groups
10. Millennium Consumption Goals
Advantages:
- Make MDGs concret (not to replace but
to complement it)
- New Development paradigm
- Related to concrete behaviour change in
the north
- Good umbrella for already existing
north-south activities and campaigns
- We can influence the process !
