Momoyama Statement of ISC2009

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Good evening to The Most Reverend Dr. Rowan Williams, The Archbishop of Canterbury, Presidents, Professors, and to our dear guests. It is an honor to have this opportunity to present our statement.

Through sleepless nights, intensive day long brainstorming, tired, over worked and sleepy minds, we were able to create statements that we want the world to hear. Of course without the help of our mentors we would not have made it this far.

We the Asian students BELIEVE

• - Ours and our future generations’ well being is at stake;
• - Humanity is facing unprecedented challenges;
• - Everyone misuses, overuses and exploits nature. It is in our current human system to undervalue nature;
• - There are many ways to solve environmental problems.

We REQUEST

• - The presidents of our institutions to promote student mobility programs with special focus on environment and sustainable development issues.

We COMMIT

• - To empower ordinary and socially disadvantaged people, to become aware that their small effort does mean a lot;
• - To promote environmental educations at all levels so that ordinary citizens can understand complex relationship between their daily life and global ecological concerns;
• - To use efficient energy sources, appliances, and eco-friendly products;
• - To take into account the values of ecosystem services;
• - To consume only minimum commodities in our daily life and try to reuse and recycle as much as possible.

We DEMAND

• - All governments to set SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT as goal;
• - The national government to design effective environmental policies and incentives, cut in defense budgets and more budgets for the environment, and promote eco-friendly production, consumption and trade;
• - Access for youths to the existing environmental database and knowledge and technology;
• - Companies to reduce the use of environmental resources;
• - An eco-friendly market mechanism that reflects true value of products in the market;
• - More eco-friendly cars and eco-friendly public transportations;
• - Asian countries must aim to reduce the emission of green house gases;
• - Developing countries should commit policy changes;
• - Developed countries to share technology with developing countries to solve local environmental pollutions as well;
• - Not only environmental goods, but also proper food, safe water, shelter, clothes to wear, education, health equity and no more social discrimination for 100% of Asian citizens within 2012.

We APPEAL

• To each and everyone… Especially, to the youths of Asia
• When going to supermarkets to buy something, what do you care about? Price, quality, calories, what else? Do you ask or look for natural resource use labels? Let us make it a new habit, to know about eco- friendly products.

We strongly BELIEVE

• If all countries of Asia start to work and help one another, definitely Asia will become the greatest. That is what we the Asian youths have been dreaming of.

Thank you for patiently listening to our cause.
Have a nice day!

(Signed by 22 participants)

September 25, 2009