48RZ17 - Sense of the Ziu: Sustainable Development and Climate Change

WHEREAS , the member states of the United Nations are preparing to begin implementation of sustainable development goals (SDGs) to direct global policymaking initiatives and agendas from 2015 onward, and

WHEREAS , these goals include ending absolute poverty, promoting gender equality, creating greater food security, inclusive and equitable quality education, water management and sanitation, sustainable energy production and industrialization, reducing income inequality, better urban environments, action on climate change, sustainable resources development and natural conservation, and

WHEREAS , these goals have been drafted, debated and finalized during a period of profound and unprecedented challenge in the form of anthropogenic climate change, and

WHEREAS , this profound and unprecedented challenge is the result of centuries of industrial development, and portends great instability with respect to the global commons, finance and trade, food security and international migration and thus threatens the achievement of the sustainable development goals.

Therefore, it is the sense of the Ziu:

• to call on all nations to be mindful that anthropogenic climate change is not an issue for tomorrow but a clear and present danger to the flourishing of contemporary human civilization, and


• to endorse the sustainable development goals as important and urgent directives for all nations in helping to realize the success of nations and the potential of each human being, and


• to express its support for the December 2015 negotiations between nations at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris and urge nations to conclude a binding agreement as not the culmination but the progressive continuation of a globally coordinated response to anthropogenic climate change, and


• to encourage all Talossans to consider actions in their own lives and communities to reduce their carbon footprint and raise awareness of this urgent challenge.

Noi urent q'estadra så,
Breneir Tzaracomprada (MC-MRPT, Foreign Affairs Minister)
Magniloqueu Épiqeu da Lhiun (Senator-MM)
C. Carlüs Xheraltescu (Seneschal)
Éovart Grischun (Senator-VD)
Sir Lüc da Schir (Distain, Minister of Finance)