Achieving Global Justice in the Green Economy

The Millennium Consumption Goals Initiative

Thomas Brose

Climate Allianceof European Cities with Indigenous Rainforest Peoples

Report Gaia Foundation: Opening Pandora´s Box – the new wave of land grabbing by the extractive industries

Report of the special rapporteur to the right to food:

„…overweight and obesity (…) cause even more deaths worldwide than does underweight.“

Why do we need Consumption Goals?

The global economy driven by consumption already uses natural resources equivalent to 1.5 planet earthsThe 1.4 billion people in the richest 20th percentile of the world’s population consumeover 80% of global output – 60 times more than those in the poorest 20th percentileClearly, the consumption of the rich is not only unsustainable, but also “crowding out” the poor

Millennium Consumption Goals

What are the MCGs?

The Millennium Consumption Goals (MCGs) seek to provide consumptiontargets designed to motivate the world’srich to consume more sustainablyThe MCGs would start by addressingunder-consumption of the poor

Professor Mohan Munasinghe is a Sri Lankan physicist and economist. 2007 he shared the Nobel Prize for Peace, as Vice Chair of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC-AR4).

Millennium Consumption Goals

MCG Network:- Consumers and producers- Business- Government (national and local)- Financial institutions

Millennium Consumption Goals

MCG Network:- Consumers and producers- Business- Government (national and local)- Financial institutions

Millenium Consumption Goals

The Areas for action:- Meet basic human needs (food, water,

energy,..) - GHG emissions reduction- Energy use- Water use- Land and biomass use- Ores, metals and industrial minerals- Construction materials and minerals- Pollution and waste

Decision UK parliament in preparation Rio+20

The Millennium Development Goals have helped shape aidprogrammes, including the UK's, over the last decade. But,globally, their targets appear likely to be missed by their 2015end-date, and they have focussed attention on what needs tochange only in the developing world. The Government shouldsupport work aimed at launching new Goals – SustainabilityGoals and Consumption Goals - at Rio+20, to shift the efforttowards the sustainable development and sustainableconsumption contributions that the UK and otherDeveloped countries now need to make. It should engagewith otherEuropean countries to ensure that the EU pushesthis agenda strongly ahead of Rio+20.

Climate Alliance

- More than 1,600 European Cities are commited to reduce CO2 Emissions- Also support indigenous peoples in the

Amazon basin (e.g. landrights)- Some members are supporting the

MDGs and signed commitments to develop activities

- Not only focus on the south but also in the north there are poors and excluded groups

Millennium Consumption Goals

Advantages:- Make MDGs concret (not to replace but

to complement it)- New Development paradigm- Related to concrete behaviour change in

the north- Good umbrella for already existing

north-south activities and campaigns- We can influence the process !

http://www.millenniumconsumptiongoals.org