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Millennium Consumption Goals (MCGs) at Rio+20: A Practical Step Toward Global Sustainability

In: Creating a Sustainable and Desirable Future Insights from 45 global thought leaders

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Unsustainable patterns of consumption and production have led to multiple problems threatening our future — like poverty, resource scarcities, hunger, disease, and environmental harm. Focusing on correcting key drivers such as consumption and production leads to integrated solutions that can solve many problems simultaneously, where piecemeal solutions have failed before.1 The consumption-driven global economy already uses natural resources equivalent to almost 1.5 earths, with the world's richest 1.4 billion consuming almost 85% of global output — over 60-fold the consumption of the poorest 1.4 billion.2 The consumption by the rich is not only ecologically unsustainable, but also crowds out the prospects of the poor and exacerbates inequalities that increase the risk of conflict and global unrest…

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  • Mohan Munasinghe, 2014. "Millennium Consumption Goals (MCGs) at Rio+20: A Practical Step Toward Global Sustainability," World Scientific Book Chapters, in: Robert Costanza & Ida Kubiszewski (ed.), Creating a Sustainable and Desirable Future Insights from 45 global thought leaders, chapter 34, pages 255-262, World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd..
    • Handle: RePEc:wsi:wschap:9789814546898_0034
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