{"id":3474,"date":"2016-07-18T05:47:36","date_gmt":"2016-07-18T10:47:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/synapse9.com\/signals\/?p=3474"},"modified":"2016-07-29T14:22:41","modified_gmt":"2016-07-29T19:22:41","slug":"scientific-community-on-natural-limits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/synapse9.com\/signals\/scientific-community-on-natural-limits\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientific Community on Natural Limits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Post event note:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">UN meetings on\u00a0the first year of SDG implementation are over now, were very intense, and in the end quite successful for finding a new way to discuss the neglected issue of\u00a0natural limits. \u00a0 The\u00a0scientific community that understands the connection between our natural\u00a0limits and economic growth has been totally\u00a0shut out of the UN discussion for years. \u00a0\u00a0I didn&#8217;t get to speak to the main body on that directly, but I finally found a way to talk about the problem, that the SDG&#8217;s don&#8217;t in any real way count the global impacts of our decisions:<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.synapse9.com\/_SDinteg\/ImpactsUncountedl.pdf\">S D \u00a0 M e t r i c s \u00a0 L e a v e \u00a0\u00a0M o s t \u00a0 S o c i e t a l \u00a0 I m p a c t s \u00a0 U n c o u n t e d \u00a0<\/a><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">It&#8217;s to say:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The ISO\u2019s <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>world environmental accounting standards<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<strong>fail to honor its\u00a0fiduciary duty to our interests and\u00a0human right to honest data<\/strong>,<br \/>\nonly counting local impacts, leaving all global impacts of\u00a0financial\u00a0decisions uncounted and unaccountable.<br \/>\nSD decision makers are the most hurt, kept from knowing most of what they are deciding.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">____________<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/News\/dh\/photos\/large\/2015\/September\/09-09-E-SDG-Poster.jpg\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The 17 Goals<\/p>\n<p>It had seemed I would have a chance to speak at the UN, officially\u00a0representing the\u00a0long neglected interests \u00a0of the scientific community that understands the coupling of the economy and natural limits. \u00a0Below is the email I sent a number of\u00a0scientists and other experts who understanding is not being represented:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Friends,<\/p>\n<p>I found a way for scientists who have long understood natural limits, to get official representation at the UN, in the UN\u2019s community of CSO\u2019s (Civil Society Organizations), as a member of its \u201cMajor Groups and Other Stakeholders\u201d (MGoS).\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0The present work is the review and guidance of the UN\u2019s global Sustainable Development Goals project (SDG\u2019s), and the High Level Political Forum\u2019s (HLPF) oversight of it.\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/sustainabledevelopment.un.org\/hlpf\">https:\/\/sustainabledevelopment.un.org\/hlpf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Please circulate widely.\u00a0 Non-expert members welcome too.\u00a0\u00a0 There is no organization at this time, just me seeing an opportunity to have our long neglected interests given official recognition.\u00a0 I might start a Google Group with the names or something\u2026 \u00a0Any statement would be in the interests of the group rather than as if representing a group position<\/p>\n<p>The draft text for representing the group\u2019s interest to the UN is is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.synapse9.com\/_SDinteg\/HLPF-Intervention,ImpactsUncounted.pdf\">here<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Time was too short for it to get around, and response was slow, except for the two \u00a0great ones I really appreciate getting, so I turned off the Google invitation form . \u00a0 It still seems to be something that community really should find a way to do though!<\/p>\n<p>Jessie<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Post event note: UN meetings on\u00a0the first year of SDG implementation are over now, were very intense, and in the end quite successful for finding a new way to discuss the neglected issue of\u00a0natural limits. \u00a0 The\u00a0scientific community that understands the connection between our natural\u00a0limits and economic growth has been totally\u00a0shut out of the UN &hellip; 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