Paris, 30 mar ( EFE).-promote “good living”, adopt a Universal Declaration of the law of nature, create a new architecture of global financial and protect cultural diversity are the four pillars of sustainable development that Ecuador will defend next June at the Conference RÃo+20.
The Ecuadorian Minister Coordinator of heritage, MarÃa Fernanda Espinosa, has just them presented at the Forum towards problems RÃo+20 in Paris, organized by the French scientific research National Center and the itinerant University founded by the sociologist Edgar Morin, said in an interview with Efe international.
“Unfortunately – highlighted-, whole body institutional and legal mandate that we assume the 193 countries of the system 20 years ago has been fulfilled in an extremely weak way”.
For Ecuador, RÃo+20 is “a platform to update the agenda of sustainable development” and assess what were these twenty years in terms of compliance with multilateral environmental agreements like the conventions on climate change and biological diversity, or the principles on forests and desertification.
Should also be a “balance of how the ten principles of river, met the ' agenda 21 ' and the plan of action of Johannesburg, after the assessment made in 2002” added.
Stressed, in this regard, that although “many countries say that it is not time to evaluate, that we must look to the future,” is something impossible “if it is not analysis, thorough, critical, self-critical of what they have been these twenty years”.
Of the Ecuadorian proposal, Espinosa emphasized the absolute necessity of “include a fourth pillar”, cultural diversity, “to the three axes of the so-called sustainable development, which are the economic, social and environmental”.
“We are aware that much of the inspiration for the development of a new type comes from the contribution of our peoples and indigenous nationalities,” as the “good living”, concept taken from “living in fullness” of Andean indigenous peoples highlighted.
Recalled, moreover, that the Ecuadorian Constitution is the only one on the planet “which recognizes rights to nature, what happens if an object to be a subject of rights”.
By what Ecuador proposed in Rio a Universal Declaration for the rights of nature, a “Pact political and ethical global to safeguard and take care of their existence, their ecosystem functions and its right to exist”.
“We know that it is not an easy task” and that there will be a long process of negotiation, but Member countries the CELAC (community of Latin American countries and the Caribbean) already adopted the idea, it highlighted.
Also stressed that for Ecuador “can not continue thinking that the only way of development” is the optimization of the profit, accumulation and growth, so it calls into question the growth without quality and evaluates the possibility to “redistribute and make better use of resources” rather than grow.
In the field of governance, he added, Ecuador wants to “deliver concrete mechanisms to finance sustainable development”, away from those used now: labour flexibility and the reduction of the environmental standards in the production.
“Optimize profits, the obsession of our capitalist world”, could also be creating two separate taxes on international financial transactions and the consumption of fossil fuels and a system of “net emissions avoided”, as the of the initiative environmentalist YasunÃ-ITT, considered. EFE
