NEW STRATEGIES NEEDED AS RAPID URBANIZATION THREATENS SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT - UN REPORT

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NEW STRATEGIES NEEDED AS RAPID URBANIZATION THREATENS SUSTAINABLE
DEVELOPMENT - UN REPORT
New York, Jul 2 2013 1:00PM
Without fresh ideas to address rapid urbanization, the number of
people living in slums lacking access to basic infrastructure and
services such as sanitation, electricity, and health care may
skyrocket from one billion at present to three billion by 2050, the
United Nations today reported.

That wake up call is one of several alarm bells sounded in the
<"http://www.un.org/en/development/desa/policy/wess/wess_current/wess2013/WESS2013.pdf"><em>UN
World Economic and Social Survey 2013</em>, which was launched today
in Geneva and which focuses this year on sustainable development and
the challenges facing its economic, social and environmental
dimensions.

<"http://www.un.org/en/development/desa/policy/wess/wess_current/wess2013/WESS2013_pressrelease.pdf">According
to the Survey, the vision of promoting economic and social wellbeing
while protecting the environment has not been achieved due to rising
inequality, gaps and shortfalls in development partnerships, rapid
population growth, climate change and environmental degradation.

"Rising inequalities, the food, fuel and financial crises, and the
breaching of planetary boundaries have made clear that a mere
continuation of current strategies will not suffice to achieve
sustainable development after 2015," according to the report, which
also notes that current efforts are insufficient to meet the eight
anti-poverty targets known as the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)
by their 2015 deadline.

The Survey, produced by the UN Department of Economic and Social
Affairs (DESA), examines three key challenges to sustainable
development -- sustainable cities, food and nutrition security and
energy transformation. These were also among the main focuses of the
historic UN Conference on Sustainable Development, held in Brazil last
year and known as Rio+20.

"Rio+20 reaffirmed commitment to sustainable development and adopted
a framework for action and comprehensive follow-up," Secretary-General
Ban Ki-moon wrote in the foreword to the Survey, calling it "a
valuable resource" towards translating the outcome of Rio+20 into
concrete actions.

According to the Survey, sustainable development of urban areas
requires integration and coordination, and investment to tackle
land-use issues, food security, employment creation, transportation
infrastructure development, biodiversity conservation, water
conservation, renewable energy sourcing, waste and recycling
management, and the provision of education, health care and housing.

Innovative strategies and investments are needed to promote
sustainable development, including in the world's cities, said Wu
Hongbo, UN Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs,
"We have to take actions now that will enhance the benefits of cities,
while reducing the threats to sustainable development."

Among these, changes to prices of goods and services to more closely
reflect scarcity now and in the future, and to encourage consumers and
producers to switch to less resource-intensive renewable products.

Food production and consumption will have to change to conserve the
estimated 32 per cent wasted globally, and to increase by 70 per cent
to feed an additional 2.3 billion people who are estimated to boost
the world population by 2050.

"The main challenge, however, is to increase food production while
minimizing the environmental impact and increasing natural resource
use efficiency," says the report, which notes that as food demand
shifts to more resource-intensive agricultural products such as
livestock and dairy, even more pressure will be exerted on land, water
and biodiversity resources.

Along with food and nutrition security, the Survey highlights the
critical need to find creative mechanisms to promote forward-looking
energy efforts, such as the Secretary-General's Sustainable Energy for
All initiative. It aims at achieving three linked global targets by
2030: universal access to modern energy services; the doubling of
energy efficiency; and the doubling of the share of renewable energy
in the world's energy mix.
Jul 2 2013 1:00PM
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