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14 WWW. UNWLA.ORG “НАШЕ ЖИТТЯ”, ЖОВТЕНЬ 2012 responses of three voting group s, and included the top ten online picks of a million voter s world - wide, the top ten picks of the 111 pa nelists partic i- pating during the panel discussions in Rio, and the top ten picks of the audience attending the conference. All thirty topics reflected diverse se c- tors of civil society. The to p ten topics selected by voters and their recommendations are pre sented below — organized by th e respective voting popul a- tions . 1. Sustainable Development as an Answer to the Economic and Financial Crises Online: Promote tax reforms that encourage e n- vir onmental protection and benefit the poor. Audience: Create a tax on international financial transactions with a view to contributing to a Green Fund in charge of promoting decent jobs and clean technologies. Panelists: Adopt shared sustainable develop - ment goals (SDGs) that will be embraced by bus i- ness, ci vil society , and the public sector. Goals include innovative metrics, public disclosure, pu b lic awareness, and education at all levels, and problem solving from local to global level to map the pathways to achieve the goals. Five critical areas to consider : 1) empower every place in the world to ensure that every individual meets their basic needs of health, safe water, sanitation, and dignity of decent lives; 2) sustainable develop - ment energy system; 3) sustainable food supply locally and globally; 4) sus tainable urban environ - ments, including initiatives on water systems, sew age , and other smart infrastructure; 5) sus - tainable industry committed and required to clean up after itself. The SDGs would be met through a shared set of principles and methods th at will apply for all, including taxes, financial reform, innovative financing for green develop - ment , and a shift to sustainable technologies in general. 2. Unemployment, Decent Work, and M i- grations Online: Put education at the core of the Sus tain - able Development Goals agenda. Audience: Commit to a "Decent Work for All" goal by 2030, including the right to bargain col - lectively, unemployment reduction, elimina tion of precarious work, gender equality at the work - place , and promotion of green and decent jobs. T ake into account the s pecial needs of women and youth. Commit to a "Social Protection for All" goal by 2030, guaranteeing social pro tection at least at the level of national floors, including minimum wages and guarantees for access to health care. Also incorporate income support for the une m- ployed, aged, disabled, children , and pregnant women. Panelists: Compel national governments to re - spect the human rights of all migrant workers and their families , including those in Temporary Fo r- eign Worker pr ograms and those climate re fugees who will be displaced by environmental impacts. 3. Sustainable Development for Fighting Poverty Online: Promote global education to eradicate poverty and to achieve sustainable development. Audience: Ensure universal he alth coverage to achieve sustainable development. Panelists: Promote equitable access to informa - tion, participation, representation , and justic e in local, national and global level decision - making on sustainable development. Promote grassroots innovation. 4. Economics of Sustainable Development, including Sustainable Patterns of Pr o- duction and Consumption Online: Phase out harmful subsidies and develop green tax schemes. Audience: Include environmental damages in the Gross National Product (GNP) and comple - ment it with measures of social development. Panelists: Promote sustainable public procure - ment worldwide as a catalyst for sustainable pat - terns. Take into account the need for a holistic ap - proach to sustainable development and prin cip les for a sustainable and fair economy. 5. Forests Online: Restore 150 million hectares of de - forested and degraded lands by 2020. Audience: Promote science, technology, innova - tion , and tradit ional knowledge in order to face forests ' main challenge: how to turn them pro - ductive without destroying them. Panelists: Zero Net Deforestation by 2020, re s- pecting the rights and knowledge of peoples living in and from the forests as well as respond ing to their sustainable development needs. 6. Food and Nutrition Security Online: Promote food systems that are sus - tainable and contribute to health improvement . Audience: Develop policies to encourage sus - tain able production of food supplies directed to both producers and consumers.
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