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11 April 2012Report Showcases Fresh Approaches to Sustainable Development
Today the Worldwatch Institute released “State of the World 2012: Moving Toward Sustainable Prosperity,” the 29th book in a series the institute began in 1984. It has since become a go-to source for research and policy solutions to advance sustainable development. Ford provided funding to publish this latest edition, which explores how rapid changes in the world—a globalizing economy, huge waves of migration and revolutions in information technology—can be harnessed to further sustainability and improve the lives of millions of people.
Through our work in Metropolitan Opportunity and Sustainable Development, the foundation is promoting a vision of sustainable and just cities, ensuring that civil society groups are involved in shaping the emerging green economy, and supporting the natural resource rights of indigenous communities. We strongly believe, as the contributors to “State of the World” contend, that providing access to opportunity and dignity for all the world's people is a goal that can—and indeed, must—coexist with concern for the well-being of the environment.
“The generations that follow ours—those of our children and our grandchildren—expect and need us to lead with wisdom and conviction today,” writes Ford Foundation President Luis Ubiñas in the book's foreword. “They expect us to think not only of our time but of theirs, not only of ourselves but of them....[W]e have a chance to live up to our profound responsibility as stewards of the natural and man-made environments that sustain us. Let's make the most of this moment.”
We hope the book's content will inspire meaningful discussion, debate and collaboration in the lead up to the Rio+20 Earth Summit in June, as well as during and after the critical conference.
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