Enigin Update - Scotland's First Minister Call for Sustainable Action in 2012
SCOTLAND’S First Minister, Alex Salmond, has urged world leaders to make 2012 the 'Year of Climate Justice' with sustainable development and energy policies to become the focus for the year.
Salmond made the call ahead of the major UN conference on sustainable development in June, adding that climate justice should be the focus and form a major part of discussions at the Rio+20 to be held in Rio de Janeiro in Brazil.
Climate justice links human rights and development, put people at the heart of our economic system, and allow all to share the burdens of climate change and benefit from its resolution - with energy efficiency improvements and renewables very much at the heart of climate change combat actions.
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Salmond said:"It is vitally important that, as the world moves towards economic recovery in 2012, we place climate justice at the very heart of the decisions we make on energy policy and economic and social development in the coming months.
"I believe we have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to enshrine this important principle - that economic development should be linked to human rights - in global energy policy, ensuring that countries and communities least able to cope with the extreme weather events climate change brings are not further disadvantaged.
"In the run up to the UN Rio+20 conference in Brazil in June and beyond, I am calling for climate justice to be made central to decisions taken by major countries on energy and development.
"It is also my sincere hope, given the fact one of the themes of this year's conference is the green economy linked to sustainable development, that climate justice forms an important part of Scotland's contribution to Rio+20.
"Only by focusing on the inequalities brought on by climate change, can we formulate meaningful policies that will truly help the poorest in our global society, and I urge all world leaders and decision makers to make 2012 the Year of Climate Justice."
Picture of Alex Salmond by the SNP reproduced under CCL.
