The effects of Globalization on the implementation of Substantial Development policies for the environment.
Although protection of the environment has been a topic present since the late nineteenth century, it has only come into prominence as an issue in the late twentieth century. The first time that the issue brought enough attention to bring together many great minds and governments, came in the form of the 1972 UN Conference on the Human Environment. This conference established the first ever North-South relationship in respect to the environment. What followed was many more conferences and agreements established to protect the earth. Agreements such as: the Long Range Transboundary Air Pollution Agreement (LRTAP, 1979), the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES, 1971), in addition to many others. In 1987 the UN's World Commission on Environment and Development, produced the Brundtland Report. This report aimed to fix the plethora of earlier environmental agreements. Earlier agreements which failed to recognize the need to harmonize development considerations when implementing its environmental protection plans. The Brundtland Report described sustainable development as the "development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs." (B
On the flip side, many corporations are also vying for airtime, through the news, with stories of good deeds towards the environment. But quite often we are now seeing corporations with commercial time, attempting to explain why their actions, whether they be detrimental towards the environment, are suitable. We have seen examples of this in Canada with commercials for the logging industry. The commercials speak of how the industry is replenishing the forests with new tree's and how its logging methods are not harmful to the earth. So it is once again left up to the public to decide for themselves who they believe is telling the truth and who is stretching or shading this truth. Hall, J.D. & Hanson, A.J. (1992) A New Kind Of Sharing. Ottawa, Ontario: International Development Research Centre. aylis, 1997, p.318) It also centered its attention "on finding strategies to promote economic and social development in ways that avoided environmental degradation, over-exploitation or pollution, and [moved] away from less productive debates about whether to prioritize development or the environment." (Baylis, 1997, p.138). "Ignoring the depreciation of capital assets is a recipe for bankruptcy in business, and it is becoming apparent that this is the case for planet management as well. Environmental degradation incurs an enormous cost, but it has never been incorporated into national accounts. Neither do the prices of resources and environmental services such as clean air and the protection of watersheds reflect their true value, either in the economy or to society. Even worse classical economics had not recognized that there are ultimate limits to the Earth's capacity to provide - biological, chemical, and geological limits. We need to live off our interest and not our capital." (Hall, J.D., 1992, p.10)
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