Traduction de «Biens communs planétaires » (Français → Anglais) :

These research infrastructures should be integrated, networked and accessed through the concomitant development of new generations of electronic communication infrastructures, both in Europe and globally.

This is precisely a time when this intelligent technique for making services generally, indeed universally, available could inspire audacious solutions to worldwide problems in relation to water, basic medicines, education and all the shared dimensions of what is owned by the world as a whole, yet the European Commission is reducing the scope of this tool for guiding human societies, if not actually destroying it.

the global nature of climate change calls for the widest possible cooperation by all countries, and their participation in an effective, cost-efficient and appropriate international response, in accordance with their common, but differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities; the EU therefore looks forward to engaging with all Parties to the Convention in an open dialogue on what further action is required as a next step to move towards the ultimate objective of the Convention; the relevant Council formations should reinvigorate their efforts to integrate climate change objectives into their policy areas; recent scientifi ...[+++]c research and work under the IPCC indicate that it is unlikely that stabilisation of concentrations above 550 ppmv CO equivalent would be consistent with meeting the 2°C objective and that in order to have a reasonable chance to limit global warming to no more than 2°C, stabilisation of concentrations well below 550 ppmv CO equivalent may be needed; recent scientific research and work under the IPCC indicate that keeping this long-term temperature objective within reach will require global greenhouse gas emissions to peak within 2 decades, followed by substantial reductions in the order of at least 15% and perhaps by as much as 50% by 2050 compared to 1990 levels; in view of the global emission reductions required, global joint efforts are needed in the coming decades, in line with the common, but differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities, including significantly enhanced aggregated reduction efforts by all economically more advanced countries.

Water resources should not be seen as one country’s private property, but as a shared global resource.

REAFFIRMS that the global nature of climate change calls for the widest possible co-operation by all countries, and their participation in an effective and appropriate international response, in accordance with their common, but differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities. RECOGNISES that the first commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol is an important first step towards achieving the necessary turn-around in industrialised countries' emissions, and that further action is required in the period after 2012 to ensure the achievement of the ultimate objective of the Convention.

21. Urges the forthcoming Portuguese Presidency to tackle the challenge of information and communication technologies as an essential part of competitiveness as world level, calling for greater investment in innovation, research and training; calls for fresh steps to be taken in this essential area of strategic development at the European Council in Lisbon in March 2000 and for the e-Europe Action Plan committee to conclude its work by June 2000;