Tài liệu Engineering Challenges For the 21st Century ppt

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FailureofAgenda21sinceRio(Kofi
Annan)
First,aFragmentedApproachtoSustainable
Development
Secondly,noMajorChangesintheUnsustainable
PatternsofConsumptionandProduction
Thirdly,thereisalackofmutuallyCoherentPolicies
orApproachesintheareasoffinance,trade,
investment,technologyandsustainabledevelopment.
Fourthly,theFinancialResourcesrequiredfor
implementingAgenda21havenotbeenforthcoming

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UNSecretaryGeneralinhis2002
Report“ImplementingAgenda21”
expectsWSSDtoreinvigorateAgenda
21throughanewapproachintegrating
thethreecriticalelements:
PoliticalWill,
PracticalSteps,
Partnerships.
ThiswasagreedbyWSSD

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UNSecretaryGeneralproposesthe
followingmeansforimplementing
Agenda21afterWSSD:
·Finance(MontereyFinancingfor
DevelopmentConference2002)
·Trade(WTO“post-Doha”Tradefor
DevelopmentRoundofNegotiations)
·TransferofEnvironmentallySound
Technology
·ScienceandCapacityBuilding
ThiswasacceptedbyWSSD

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Thisisrecognition,howeverbelated,of
thepivotalroleofScience,Engineering
andTechnology(S.E.T)inSustainable
Development
KofiAnnan’semphasisonPractical
StepsandPartnershipsshouldput
EngineersandEngineeringatcenter
stageofAgenda21after
Johannesburg.

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WorldPopulationinto3groupsbymeans
ofGDPinUS$percapita,(purchasing
powerparitycorrected)
<4K,4K–16Kand>16K
TheDivisionsare4.0billion(Poor),1.2
billion(Transitional)and0.8billion
(Rich).
TheRichhave
9timesthewealth
8timestheenergyconsumption
8timesthecarbonemissionsofthePoor

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OurWorldofInequity:
1.3BillionwithDailyIncome<US$1.0
3.0BillionwithDailyIncome<US$2.0
800.0MillionwithFoodInsecurity
50.0MillionHIVPositive
3.0BillionwithWaterScarcityby2025
2.0BillionPeopleNoAccessto
CommercialEnergy

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Agenda21afterWSSDwillfocuson5
PriorityAreas
Water
Energy
Agriculture
Health
Bio-Diversity

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AGENDA21afterWSSDwillfocuson5Priority
Areas
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TheEngineeringMissioninthe
globalisedworldofthiscentury
istoenableHumankindto
achieveSustainability.
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TheOpportunitiesforEngineersand
Engineeringintheglobalisedworldare
excitingandboundless:
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1)TheSustainabilityOpportunities;
2)TheICTOpportunities;
3)TheTraditionalEngineeringOpportunities.
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SolutionsforSustainableDevelopment
AvastnumberofSmall-scale
AccessibleandAffordableengineering
installations,systemsandservices
particularlyinthedevelopingworld.
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