IREO promotes the urgent transition to renewable energy sources and sustainable development through collaborative effort and the implementation of projects that improve the lives of people while preserving the environment and our resources for future generations of humans.
IREO's vision is to build long-term partnerships with communities, governments, the United Nations, private sector, NGOs, IGOs, academia and think tanks in order to bring sustainability to communities while creating a better and cleaner world.
IREO was formed in 2008 by a treaty between official Member States which adheres to the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations of 1961. Since its formation, IREO has been supported by a consortium of governments, private companies and universities. IREO has de facto status within the United Nations and steps are underway to obtain inclusion as an Intergovernmental Observer to the Economic and Social Council and the UN General Assembly.
IREO promotes sustainable development in support of the following UN declarations and treaties:
Goal #7 Ensure Environmental Sustainability - Reducing poverty and achieving sustained development must be done in conjunction with a healthy planet. The Millennium Goals recognize that environmental sustainability is part of global economic and social well-being. Unfortunately exploitation of natural resources such as forests, land, water, and fisheries have caused alarming changes in our natural world in recent decades, harming us all, most of all those who depend on natural resources for their livelihood.
The result of the effort of 178 countries that met in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil for the first International Earth Summit on June 1992, convened to address urgent problems of environmental protection and social-economic development. The assembled leaders signed the Convention on Climate Change and the Convention on Biological Diversity, endorsing the Rio Declaration and the Forest Principles, and adopted the Agenda 21.
Assembled at the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg, South Africa in September 2002, representatives of the world reaffirmed their commitment to sustainable development and endorsed a declaration and plan of implementation.
The Kyoto Protocol is an agreement under which industrialized countries will reduce their collective emissions of greenhouse gases by 5.2% compared to the year 1990. The goal is to lower overall emissions of six greenhouse gases - carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, sulfur hexafluoride, hydrofluorocarbons, and perfluorocarbons - averaged over the period of 2008-2012. National limitations range from 8% reductions for the European Union and some others to 7% for the US, 6% for Japan, 0% for Russia, and permitted increases of 8% for Australia and 10% for Iceland.
Article 56 - Item (i) - "To accelerate the development and dissemination of affordable and cleaner energy efficiency and energy conservation technologies, as well as the transfer of such technologies, in particular to developing countries, on favorable terms, including on confessional and preferential terms, as mutually agreed, bearing in mind that access to energy facilitates the eradication of poverty."
Article 60 - Item (d) - "Primary drivers of national capacity building for development; promoting and supporting greater efforts to develop renewable energy sources of energy available."
The Commission was established in 1992 to provide the General Assembly and the Economic and Social Council with high-level advice on relevant issues through analysis and appropriate policy recommendations or options in order to enable those organs to guide the future work of the United Nations, develop common policies and agree on appropriate actions.
Finance chiefs of the Group of Seven rich nations called on February 9th, 2008 for investment in developing countries to help them fight climate change and worked on plans for a World Bank-style fund. Finance ministers and central bank chiefs, in a joint statement after talks in Tokyo, said they hoped to "scale up investment in developing countries to support them in joining international efforts to address climate change."
Economic, social and cultural rights are designed to ensure the protection of people as full persons, based on a perspective in which people can enjoy rights, freedoms and social justice simultaneously. In a world where, according to the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), "a fifth of the developing world's population goes hungry every night, a quarter lacks access to even a basic necessity like safe drinking water, and a third lives in a state of abject poverty at such a margin of human existence that words simply fail to describe it." The importance of renewed attention and commitment to the full realization of economic, social and cultural rights is self-evident.
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