Consolidate us like a sustainable founding to global level that qualify, plan, develop and supervice estrategics plans for the community To confront to the serious global warming problem
Mission
Develop with our partners contingency plans to protect human species and natural resources to Global level The annual meeting of our partners and collaborator to worldwide level for all years sustainably to set our Proposal of annual actions of the founding
A Global Challenge
When beginning the century, the natural resources, submissive greater pressures every time, threaten the public health and the development. The water shortage, the exhaustion of grounds, the loss of forests, the pollution of the air and the water and the degradation of the coasts adversely affect numerous zones. As the population of the world grows, the profit of better standards of life without destroying the environment is a global challenge.
Nowadays, almost all the developed economies consume natural resources without giving time them to be regenerated. Most of the countries developing with fast growth of the population, they face the urgent necessity to improve the standards of life. It is necesary to ask itself, then, if while we exploit the nature to satisfy the necessities of the moment, are not we destroying the necessary resources for the future?.
Environment Is Getting Worse
In all environmental sectors, the conditions during this last decade have not improved or have been getting worse :
Public health. The contaminated water, together with the deficient cleaning, causes the death of more than 12 million persons per year, most of them in countries developing. The air pollution causes the death of almost 3 million more. The heavy metals and other polluting agents also cause very widespread problems of health.
Food provision. Thee will be sufficient foods for all? In 64 of the 105 developing countries studied by the United Nations for Agriculture and the Feeding, the population has been growing more quickly than the food supplies. Because of the pressures of the population, approximately 2,000 million hectares of arable land, an area as large as Canada and the United States have been degraded about.
Sweet water. The availability of sweet water resources is limited, but the demand rises enormously as the population grows and the consumption rises per cápita. In 2025, when according to the projections the world wide population will come to 8.000 millions, the water shortage will be made feel in 48 countries with a whole of 3.000 million inhabitants.
Coasts and the oceans. Half of the coastal ecosystems is undergoing the pressure of the HD of population and the urban development. In the seas worldwide the tide of the contamination raises. Fisheries oceanic is operated excessively and the capture of fish has lowered.
Forests. Half of the original forest cover of the world is had almost lost or, and every year other 16 million hectares are cut, made level or burned. The forests annually provide more of US$400.000 million to the worldwide economy and are of vital importance for the maintenance of healthy ecosystems. However, the present demand of forest products would exceed in a 25% the limit for a sustainable consumption.
Biological diversity. The biological diversity of the land performs crucial importance for the continuous vitality of the agriculture and the medicine, and perhaps even for the life itself in this planet. But the human activities are causing the extinction of many thousand of vegetal and animals species . It is esteemed that two of each three species are decaying.
Climatic worldwide changes. The surface of the land is warming up because of the gaseous emission of greenhouse effect, caused for the burning of fossil fuels. If the world temperature rises in agreement with the projections, the level of the seas would rise several meters, causing extensive floods. The atmospheric worldwide warming also might cause droughts and disturb the agriculture.
Towards an Inhabitable World
The way to conserve or to mistreat environment could determine if the standards of life have to improve or to deteriorate themselves. The increasing number of inhabitants, the urban expansion and the use of the resources do not presage anything good for the future. If a sustainable development is not practiced, the humanity faces the deterioration of environment and can even cause an ecological disaster.
Adoption of measures. Right now many measures can be taken that take to the sustainability. Among them, to use the energy more efficiently; to administer better the cities; to gradually eliminate the subventions that foment wastefulness; to take advantage of the hydric resources and to protect the fresh water sources; to collect forest products instead of destroying the forests; to conserve arable land and to increase the production of foods by means of one second “green revolution”; to order fisheries oceanic and the coastal zones; to protect thecritical biodiversity areas (“hotspots”), and to adopt an international convention on the climatic changes.
Stabilization of the population. Although the growth of the population has been decelerated, the absolute number of inhabitants continues increasing, at the rate of approximately 1,000 million every 13 years. The slowest growth of the population would help to improve the standards of life and would give more time to protect the natural resources. In the long run, to maintain standards of life higher, the size of the worldwide population must become stabilized.
