January 1, 2002: Headlines: COS - Dominican Republic: NGO's: Environment: Global Vision: Dominican Republic RPCV Jonathan Lash, is president of the World Resources Institute in Washington DC, USA. (www.wri.org). Its mission is to move human society to live in ways that protect the Earth's environment and future generations
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January 1, 2002: Headlines: COS - Dominican Republic: NGO's: Environment: Global Vision: Dominican Republic RPCV Jonathan Lash, is president of the World Resources Institute in Washington DC, USA. (www.wri.org). Its mission is to move human society to live in ways that protect the Earth's environment and future generations
Dominican Republic RPCV Jonathan Lash, is president of the World Resources Institute in Washington DC, USA. (www.wri.org). Its mission is to move human society to live in ways that protect the Earth's environment and future generations
Dominican Republic RPCV Jonathan Lash, is president of the World Resources Institute in Washington DC, USA. (www.wri.org). Its mission is to move human society to live in ways that protect the Earth's environment and future generations
JONATHAN LASH
SAVING THE GAME
Jonathan Lash, is president of the World Resources Institute in Washington DC, USA. (www.wri.org). Its mission is to move human society to live in ways that protect the Earth's environment and future generations.
This exclusive Global Vision video interview was produced and directed by Michael O'Callaghan at the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) in Johannesburg, South Africa, in September 2002. The video version will be published here later this year.
Copyright ? 2002 Global Vision Corporation – all rights reserved.
TRANSCRIPT (423 words, slightly edited for clarity):
What's your view of the lack of progress since Rio and what do you think are the most important issues we need to be thinking about?
If you think about the big drivers that are affecting people's future - climate change, biodiversity - in reality we haven't done anything yet since Rio to slow them down. Emissions of greenhouse gases have grown sharply since Rio, loss of forests has continued unabated since Rio, loss of species has continued. So the progress, if there's been progress, is more in accommodating to reality. People understand how hard it's going to be, and are developing new approaches to try to make that happen.
How do you feel about voluntary corporate change versus regulatory change?
We're not going to solve problems like global warming purely through voluntary actions by corporations. They simply can't afford to do it because they work in a competitive market. They need multi-lateral frameworks, they need rules. I sat with Phil Watts this morning - the chairman of Shell - and he was being very explicitly to a pair of reporters about the fact that he really needed rules to continue what he was doing.
That said, the voluntary actions that are being taken by corporations now are driving things much more quickly than governments are, and it's an enormous opportunity for those of us in civil society.
Given the kind of data that World Resources Institute and other NGOs have, which clearly show a link between security and sustainability, do you think the American intelligence communities are not doing their job, or are they not being listened to if they are indeed reporting on what the real threats are?
Since I haven't been at the receiving end of intelligence briefings, I can't really answer your question, Michael, but I certainly have seen evidence in public statements that the CIA has begun to pay attention to environment and natural resources as a driver of insecurity. Whether they're re including that in their reports to President Bush I simply don't know. There's not much evidence of it, is there?
Any brief soundbite you want to tell the world?
The thing I've been thinking about, since I'm a sportsfan: I was greatly relieved that the billionaire owners in baseball and the millionaire players of baseball finally agreed that in order to save the game, they had to avoid a strike. That took months of negotiation. I wish that the negotiators here [at the World Summit on Sustainable Development] would remember that they are trying to save the Earth...
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