GUYANA has scored a ranking of 117 out of 187 countries on the United Nations Development Programme’s (UNDP) Human Development Report 2011 themed ‘Sustainability and Equity: A Better Future for All’. According to an overview of the report, this year’s Report focuses on the challenge of sustainable and equitable progress.
“A joint lens shows how environmental degradation intensifies inequality through adverse impacts on already disadvantaged people and how inequalities in human development amplify environmental degradation,” the overview said.
It said human development, which is about expanding people’s choices, builds on shared natural resources.
“Promoting human development requires addressing sustainability locally, nationally and globally and this can and should be done in ways that are equitable and empowering. We seek to ensure that poor people’s aspirations for better lives are fully taken into account in moving towards greater environmental sustainability. And we point to pathways that enable people, communities, countries and the international community to promote sustainability and equity so that they are mutually reinforcing,” the overview said.
“The 2011 Human Development Report offers important new contributions to the global dialogue on this challenge, showing how sustainability is inextricably linked to basic questions of equity that is, of fairness and social justice and of greater access to a better quality of life. Sustainability is not exclusively or even primarily an environmental issue, as the Report so persuasively argues. It is fundamentally about how we choose to live our lives, with an awareness that everything we do has consequences for the 7 billion of us here today, as well as for the billions more who will follow, for centuries to come,” said Helen Clark, Administrator, UNDP.
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