Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Ali Babacan announced the report prepared by the high-level panel on Global Sustainability on Tuesday.
The high-level panel was set up by the initiatives of UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon.
Giving information about the panel, Babacan said that the panel had 22 members, adding that the panel initiated its activities in August 2010. He said that throughout this period, many meetings were held and study groups were established.
The panel launched its report “Resilient People, Resilient Planet: A Future Worth Choosing” on January 30, 2012 in Addis Ababa.
Noting that more than three billion people in the world were faced with hunger problem and the existing development models were not sustainable, Babacan said that if countries did not take any measures, the world would not be a habitable place after a while.
He noted that biological diversity was diminishing and climate changes were seen in the world today. He added that this negative course could be stopped by the right policies and decisions.
Poverty should be reduced, inequality in economic growth and income distribution should be fixed, said Babacan, adding that the deterioration in income distribution was set as a big problem in the world by the report, however, Turkey and Brazil were the only two countries that were not in this situation.
According to the report, 20 million more people in the world were under hunger threshold since 2000, and also every year 5.2 million hectares of forest were being destroyed, said Babacan.
Babacan said that 20 percent of the people in the world could not use electricity and 884 million people could not reach clean water resources.
Noting that initiatives for sustainable development were not enough, adding that additional measures should immediately be taken.
The report makes recommendations in 56 areas, said Babacan, adding that women rights should be strengthened, gender equality should be provided, reaching primary education should be completed by 2015, governments and business world should work together, young entrepreneurs should be supported, women should be more active in economic life, energy productivity should be spread, and the share of renewable energy resources should be increased.
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