国际地球母亲日致辞

天之聪教育 2012-09-04 天之聪教育 586次

国际地球母亲日致辞
2012年4月22日

　　每年纪念国际地球母亲日是要表达对我们独一无二的星球和人类居住之地的尊重。这也意味着需要呼吁采取行动，反对人类无视大自然承载生命的资源和生态系统的做法。

　　再过不到两个月，世界将聚焦里约热内卢，那里会召开联合国可持续发展大会。1992年的第一届地球首脑会议赋予了我们重要的具有法律约束力的众多公约、具有深远影响的21世纪议程蓝图，并在可持续发展方面带来了概念上的突破。里约+20为我们提供了一个及时机会，在行动方针上进行类似改变——进行急需的模式转变，并再次承诺执行过去的成果。

　　在未来20年内，世界将需要至少增加50%的食品……增加45%的能源……增加30%的水……和数以百万计的新的就业机会。我们在里约+20和以后面临的挑战是采取全面、综合的方法来应对这些相互联系的挑战——处理这些相互关系，以便一个问题的解决办法会转化为所有方面的进步。

　　我们面临着困难但必要的抉择。我们需要切合实际，同时又有变革性的成果。我们必须利用里约+20的机会，促进更好地尊重大自然，更好地营造自然和社会环境——让所有儿童感到安全，所有人都能繁荣的环境。地球母亲属于我们所有人；里约+20是一代人才出现一次的机会，我们所有人必须抓住这一机会。

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New York, 22 April 2012 - Secretary-General's message on International Mother Earth Day

The annual observance of International Mother Earth Day honours our one and only planet and the place of human beings in it. It is also meant as a call to action against human disregard for nature’s life-supporting resources and ecosystems.

In less than two months, the world will gather in Rio de Janeiro for the UN Conference on Sustainable Development. The first Earth Summit in 1992 gave us important legally binding conventions, the far-reaching Agenda 21 blueprint, and the conceptual breakthrough of sustainable development. Rio+20 offers us a timely chance for a similar change in course -- for a much-needed paradigm shift and a recommitment to implementation.

In the next twenty years, the world will need at least 50 per cent more food …
45 per cent more energy … 30 per cent more water ... and many millions of new jobs. Our challenge at Rio+20 and beyond is to take a holistic, integrated approach to these linked challenges -- driving at the interrelations such that solutions to one problem translate into progress on all.

Hard but necessary choices lie ahead. We need an outcome that is simultaneously practical and transformational. We must use Rio+20 to promote better respect for nature and to cultivate an environment – natural and social – in which all children feel safe and all people can prosper. Mother Earth belongs to us all; Rio+20 is a once-in-a-generation opportunity that all of us must seize.

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