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So, in the area of consumption there are groups working on lifestyles,
voluntary simplicity, education, consumer action, ethical shopping.
We know these.
On the production side
industrial .......
You've seen all these, you know all these.
There’s also distribution
in between and investment
For the RIO+20 is going to be
definitely focused on
this particular area,
for those who do have access to resources, what are they going to do with it.
So,
throughout the world, this is like a little snap-shot of the different kinds of approaches
... lists and
the thing about is that each one of these practices has people involved in doing them.
And within that
they have to form networks
and they form communities and actually in a lot of ways a lot of them are like subcultures
their own language, jargon,
how they talk to each other and their friendships
organizations, publications, they are like different cultures.
They don’t necessary all talk the same language
they don’t talk the same language as at the UN level
they may not say
SCP or Major Groups or other different terms.
And it’s
important to respect that,
to approach it that way. Now
on these programs
back in two 2007
at this
Civil Society NGO Forum at the
International Experts Comity
a lot of the NGO’s were saying
“What kind of programs would be good,
that should be promoted?”
And we came up with a number of very ...
the kinds of things that we’ve been hearing for years.
You know, these groups need financing.
Why not,
in a program you get all the World Bank and the GDF
and the donor agencies together
and say “Okay,
bring a program,
brainstorm,
think about how to fund
these essential programs,
this is so important,
how are we going to fund it?
We need help with that.
You know, have a symposium write a report on it do some workshops, teach us how to do it
the help is figure out how to fund
these different kinds of projects.
That being a movement
we want to know
who else is doing what around.
Are we just reinventing the wheel?
We all talk about different practices, we don’t want exceptions to the rule,
we want to know who’s out there and who makes up this movement.
Which is always changing.
Trend analysis,
the whole ... one of the point that we realize
....
whole point of that
is to reverse these trends.
That has to be the goal of all this, so when we talk about Ten Year Framework, ok
within that ten years, how much of that
can we reverse
that should be our goal.
We need to understand these trends so we can
monitor and evaluate whether we are successful in moving towards that.
And of course indicators and measures there’s lots of work being done on that
but in terms of this Ten Year Framework or program can we pull it together into a program that
draws on all the work and expertise and knowledge that’s out there to connect it up
so it could support this movement.
And the research, dialogues...
it isn’t like this isn’t been done.
Of course a lot of us are engaged in this work
the question is are we coordinated
are we coordinated enough to
to make...
we need to be more
or effective,
obviously.
So, the UN is a great
place to tie
things together
and help us make those connections
and help us do a better job
because it’s really not about asking the UN to do it for us.
It’s about... UN is a vehicle
that we are all engaged with
we have to help each other.
It's about mutual support.
So, each of these programs is then connects up to the others, of course with financing, everybody else
who has these programs would want to know how to finance that work – dialogues and communicating, education
research.
And we’ve talked about this framework over the the last 8 years
well, okay the framework has to have some kind of a relationship
with the country’s regional government, so they are going to be ...
what role are they going to play in any of these programs?
All the different Major Groups and agencies and all that maybe you need some kind of
coordinating group that
us, helps all these programs connect to each other
so that they work together rather than these little solos.
So, here’s the Ten Year Framework
put it in a Ten Year Framework of reversing trends
and there’s our little
contribution to thinking about
this and talking about it.
Ultimately it gets back to the actual groups who are doing this work.
You're probably, and probably everyone of you here is doing some aspect of this
so
you know, what would this Ten Year Program look like, what kind of programs do you need
to make it work more effective.
This is in our little report here, so hopefully that made it a little
made more sense.
Over the coming year we want to explore that with you we are picking up some ideas
you want to work together
you know join us and help
us move this work. Thank you!
We've gone far enough so maybe it’s time to get a little bit more intimate
and I would ask you if it’s possible to lower the lights
This is mainly because...
I must warn you that my presentation is not very institutional
and basically working with pictures
so that’s the reason why.
As you probably know
Consumer’s
International is a
the federation
of consumer organizations.
This means that we are
a movement based on local
organizations that work
throughout the world.
And we’ve been engaged
in dealing with
the protection of consumer rights
for a long time since
the 1960’s
and also for a long time
we've been engaged
with sustainable consumption
and engaging as well
our organizations into different
my English words are just running away from me
in the different aspects of sustainable consumption.
And I would like you now to
sort of jump into a photograph
which I think expresses
the heart of my presentation
and it has a lot to do with
what Tim Jackson was mentioning
in terms of justice and fairness.
I think
this is a fantastic
documentary essay by
an Italian photographer
called Dariu Matavilly
and it’s called “The Street Children of Mumbai”.
And it definitely expresses
what we're all thinking
when we're thinking of fairness and justice.
he also stresses
And it also expresses all of our contradictions and it expresses also the complexity
underlying
most of the problems that we're facing.
But the question is
“How did we get here?”.
Because this is a reality we see not only in the Developing World, but
also in the developed world.
It’s just walking a couple of blocks in Manhattan
and we'll see
very similar images.
Talking about walking
a couple of nights ago I was
walking on, I think it was the 5th avenue
and I met up with this fantastic painter
whom I didn’t know.
his name is Thomas Hart Benson
and this is
a mural of
ninety pices
it's called “America Today”
and it was painted in 1930.
I took this image, because it kind of
at least to me explains
briefly
how we got here.
Because in a way
it shows
the life cycle, a sort of life cycle for society.
This would be production
and this would be consumption.