UN Chronicle E-Alert: SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

Sustainable?, the latest issue of the United Nations' quarterly magazine covering information, ideas and debate about the UN system focuses on a wide-range of topics in the run-up to the World Summit in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Sustainable?, the latest issue of the United Nations' quarterly magazine covering information, ideas and debate about the UN system focuses on a wide-range of topics in the run-up to the World Summit in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Features include:
· http://www.un.org/Pubs/chronicle/2002/issue3/0302p25_interview_jane_goodall.html">Interview with Jane Goodall
Recently named a United Nations Messenger of Peace and a member of the advisory panel chosen by the Secretary-General to discuss new approaches to sustainable development and promote the goals of the Johannesburg Summit, Jane Goodall talks to the Chronicle about activism, biological diversity and what we can learn from chimpanzees.

· http://www.un.org/Pubs/chronicle/2002/issue3/0302p8_unconventional.html">Whose Earth Is It Anyway?
While economics itself is a useful tool, the emphasis of the global economy solely on economic efficiency has failed to adequately consider environmental quality, cultural values, heritage and human rights, notes Huey Johnson, winner of the 2001 UNEP Sasakawa Environment Prize and President of the Resource Renewal Institute. A United Nations-sponsored Global Green Plan would be a sustainable development guide to achieving total economic recovery and economic growth in this century."

· http://www.un.org/Pubs/chronicle/2002/issue3/0302p5_guest_column.html">Global Development with Globalization
Our Guest Column features Her Excellency Tarja Halonen, President of Finland, who observes that even as there are shortcomings in the work of the United Nations and reform of the Organization needs additional momentum", the international community has been able to create a crisis management system based mainly on UN actions."

· http://www.un.org/Pubs/chronicle/2002/issue3/0302p24_thinking_aloud.html">Ethics: the Missing Link?
Yolanda Kakabadse Navarro, President of the World Conservation Union, says we are forcing people to treat their environment as a marketplace, not as the place where they live. Lawyers are becoming the new priests of modern society as they negotiate over 'intellectual property rights' that once were held sacred and freely shared."

· http://www.un.org/Pubs/chronicle/2002/issue3/0302p28_science_watch_makhubu.html">ScienceWatch
In Sustaining Our Environment to Promote Our Development", Dr. Lydia Makhubu talks about the complex relationship "between the human race and the earth's diverse resources", while Arturo Falaschi, in Living in the Post-genomic Era", reveals that the United Nations International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Bio-Technology, which he heads, expects to initiate field experimentation of a malaria vaccine as soon as next year in collaboration with India.

· http://www.un.org/Pubs/chronicle/2002/issue3/0302p48_glacial_lakes_flood_threat.html">International Year of Mountains
In our special section on a different kind of summit", we feature articles about the lives of mountains and mountain people, noting that more than forty glacial lakes in the Himalayas could breach their banks within five years.

. http://www.un.org/Pubs/chronicle/2002/issue3/0302p62_first_person.html">First Person
In Diplomacy: Too Important to Be Left to Men?", Akmaral Arystanbekova, the first Permanent Representative of the Republic of Kazakhstan to the United Nations, paraphrases former French Prime Minister Clemenceau to argue that women have a combination of toughness in defending interests and resourcefulness in achieving compromises.

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