David Thorpe
With vast differences in problems faced in urban areas globally, just who will have a voice in the upcoming United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development, Habitat III, has been a contentious issue. But a recent win by developing countries could see controversial issues like the “right to the city” thrust to the centre of the world’s urban governance debate, which seeks to “readdress the way cities and human settlements are planned, financed, developed, governed and managed”.
After 40 hours without sleep, last Saturday night delegates at a Habitat III summit in New York broke two years-long logjams in negotiations and settled upon a new draft of the New Urban Agenda, which will be released this week.
The first logjam had been about who would have control over implementing the Agenda: developing or developed countries. Developed countries were resisting the call of poor countries that this job be given to the Nairobi-based UN-Habitat organisation, which is the UN’s lead agency on urbanisation, because they know it is a voice for developing countries......To Read More....
My Take - As with all Green/Leftist drivel this article outlines so clearly the term "Sustainable Development" is nebulous, ethereal, down right foggy and virtually indefinable because it has no parameters, no modes of action, no foundational history to which everyone can agree.
Without an agreed upon definition there can be no clarity and hence - it does not exist - except as a great sounding political tool to bludgeon non-believers into submission. Which is exactly what the originators really intended. That way they can change the meaning can be changed to fit whatever need may arise on any given day.
Whether it's Sustainable Development, or the Precautionary Principle - or any the host of leftist terms - it all are all the same - catchy nice sounding meaningless drivel.
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