CHANGE THE WORLD SHOULD START BY ASKING PROPER QUESTİONS

• WHAT İS GOİNG ON İN THE WORLD TODAY?

• HOW DO WE OVERCOME THESE İSSUES?

• WHAT ARE WE CONCRETELY DOİNG?

WHAT İS GOİNG ON IN THE WORLD ?

• As we move from decades to decades, we make technological discoveries which face the scarcity of our resources and also affect our environment and then people lives. Poverty even rises in countries which have free access to these technology, natural disasters(TSUNAMI, FLOOD, DROUGHT, STORMS...) have increased due to the Climate change. Fortunately these issues become the subject of our attention as people face the danger that threatens them.

• These issues are real....All around the world people are facing the damages due to the climate change and even those made by human activities.... we mean here carbon dioxide emissions, the air and water pollution and so forth

HOW DO WE OVERCOME THESE İSSUES?

•As our fates are linked together some issues can only be tackled by acting together….

• with the purpose of acting together to achieve the worldwide sustainable developpment and to end poverty, a series of conferences and summit took place around the world.

• the process starts with the Brundtland Report, published in 1987 from the United Nations World Commission on Environment and Development (WCED). The report  placed environmental issues firmly on the political agenda; it aimed to discuss the environment and development as one single issue.

• The second step was the RİO Earth Summit in 1992, where one of the most important achievement was an agreement on the Climate Change Convention which in turn led to the Kyoto Protocol. Another agreement was to "not carry out any activities on the lands of indigenous peoples that would cause environmental degradation or that would be culturally inappropriate".

• And then come UN Millenium summit. At the Millennium Summit in September 2000, world leaders adopted the UN Millennium Declaration, committing their nations to a new global partnership to reduce extreme poverty and setting out a series of targets, with a deadline of 2015, that have become known as the Millennium Development Goals.

The Summit Declaration cited freedom, equality (of individuals and nations), solidarity, tolerance, respect for nature and shared responsibility as six values fundamental to international relations for the twenty-first century.

• Since the elaboration of the millenium goals in 2000, the fight against poverty has made great progress, but more than 1 billion people are still living in extreme poverty. Inequality and social exclusion are increasing all around regardless countries’ economic situation. As Human activities increase, extinction of species became a reality in rich and poor countries alike.

• UN agencies and even NGO’s ( Non Governmemtal organizations) are trying to provide some solutions..

IFAD(INTERNATIONAL FUND FOR AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT )

• The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), a specialized agency of the United Nations, was established as an international financial institution in 1977 as one of the major outcomes of the 1974 World Food Conference.

• Since it was created in 1977, IFAD has focused exclusively on rural poverty reduction, working with poor rural populations in developing countries to eliminate poverty, hunger and malnutrition; raise their productivity and incomes; and improve the quality of their lives.

OCEAN 2012

• The OCEAN2012 coalition was created in 2009 to support a fundamental reform of the European Union’s Common Fisheries Policy, or CFP. It was launched by The Pew Charitable Trusts, the Coalition for Fair Fisheries Arrangements, the Fisheries Secretariat, the new economics foundation and Seas At Risk, which were later joined on its Steering Group by Ecologistas en Acción.

• Within five years, the coalition grew to 193 member groups in 24 EU member states and beyond. The coalition included fishermen’s organisations, leading marine scientists, development agencies, environmental non-governmental organisations, aquaria, consumer and development organisations, restaurants, and groups that shared an interest in sustainable fisheries

THE POLITICAL OPPORTUNITY: THE CFP REFORM

• Launched in 2009 by the publication of the European Commission’s Green Paper: Reform of the Common Fisheries Policy, the CFP reform provided an opportunity to make European fisheries economically, socially, and environmentally sustainable. There was a need to finally end overfishing and destructive fishing practices, delivering fair and equitable use of resources for future generations.

• The proposal was to revise the EU’s core legislation for fisheries management, including measures on the EU’s domestic and external fisheries policy, common market rules, and a new financial instrument. 

OCEAN2012 STOOD FOR A CFP REFORM THAT: 

• Recovered the well‐being of our seas and dependent fishing communities.

• Ended overfishing and made the shift towards environmentally sustainable fishing practices, regardless of whether vessels fish within or outside the EU.

• Respected scientific advice and the limits of the ecosystem.

• Applied precautionary and ecosystem‐based fisheries management.

• Delivered fair and equitable use of marine resources. 

• Could supply Europe’s consumers with a rich variety of locally caught fish now and into the future.

• Used public funds as part of the solution and not as a driver of overfishing.

• Oceana seeks to make our oceans more biodiverse and abundant by winning policy victories in the countries that govern much of the world's marine life.

• Founded in 2001, OCEANA is the largest international non-profit organization focused solely on ocean conservation. Oceana offices around the world work together to win strategic, directed campaigns that achieve measurable outcomes that will help make our oceans more bio diverse and abundant.

VİCTORİES• In 2003, Oceana successfully pressures the U:S. Government to require

larger TED’s( Turtle excluder devices) on shrimp nets in the Gulf of Mexico and south Atlantic Ocean, saving some 60.000 sea turtles a year.

• In 2004, eleven months after the launch of Oceana’s Stop Cruise Pollution campaign, Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines agrees to major reform of its waste treatment practices.

• In 2005, after requests from Oceana, both the European Parliament and the Spanish government take action to prohibit the U.S, NATO and other Navies from using active sonar in European waters.

• In 2009, after years of work by Oceana and others, North Pacific Fishery Management Council votes to prevent the expansion of industrial fishing into all U.S waters north of the Bering Strait to limit stress on ocean ecosystems in the Arctic.

• Born in 1961, WFP pursues a vision of the world in which every man, woman and child has access at all times to the food needed for an active and healthy life. It works towards that vision with other UN agencies -- the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) -- as well as other government, UN and NGO partners.

• The World Food Programme is the world's largest humanitarian agency fighting hunger worldwide.

• On average, WFP reaches more than 80 million people with food assistance in 75 countries each year.

• About 11,500 people work for the organization, most of them in remote areas, directly serving the hungry poor. 

Undernutrition was reduce or stabilized

for 7.2 million children under the age

of 5

WFP’S KEY ACHİEVEMENTS IN

201380.9 million people reached

with food assistance in

75 countries

Householder or community resilience was increased due to

restoration or building

of assets in 24 countries

The average lead

time of 106 days to produce and move food to

recipient countries was reduced by

71 percent

National capacity food security,preparedness, school feeding and

nutrition was

increased in 15 countries

Levels of acute malnutrition

stabilized or fell in

90 percent of projet

67.9MillionWomen

and children

4.2Million

refugees

8.9Million

İnternally displaced

people

0.5Million

returnees

BENEFICAIRES