The theme for the high-level meeting this year focuses on Science, technology and innovation, and the potential of culture, for promoting sustainable development and achieving the Millennium Development Goals. This is a most valuable opportunity for the NGO Objectif Sciences International to make itself heard about its proposals for global development. We carry out scientific educational activities which contribute to the progress of scientific and technical research programmes for a sustainable evolution. Objective Sciences International has been working for the past 20 years in the area of the scientific and technical culture development, and as of late, is providing solutions in order to achieve the Millennium Development Goals. This experience allows us to propose to willing governments or organizations our help in order to define or carry out projects, such as :
- fostering access to knowledge;
- increasing adequate productivity, green industrialization, generation of wealth and the creation of rewarding jobs;
- promoting health including by enhancement of food quality, through sustainable and equitable agricultural systems;
- promoting renewable energy technologies in order to respond to the dual challenge of reducing energy poverty, while mitigating climate change;
- and last but not least, reinjecting life in the oceans and earth to regenerate biodiversity, by acting both wisely and proactively in that regard.
By “development”, the NGO Objectif Sciences International doesn’t mean “increasing of activity” - but the “improving of conditions”. In fact, thanks to natural sciences, we can observe, and then mimic, the win-win systems, avoiding putting into practice systems that are considered impractical or harmful. Nature in its whole is a “win-win system”, who was able to adapt over billions of years to be able to exist today. That teaches us that development by definition is not sustainable - but that co-evolutions of living systems together are sustainable.
Our NGO defends that our human society has every interest to co-evolve with nature if it wants to truly achieve an improvement of living standards for other human beings, without the need for fights to reach them. If we want these improvements to become “natural”, that is, easy, it’s on every level (children, adults, governments) that the changes in behavior must take place, making sense of the meaning we give to the word “development”. The economy, wealth and well-being will increase even further once this intellectual repositioning takes hold.
As for the social dimension of sustainable evolution projects, our NGO insists on the fact that human beings, being as they are an integral part of Nature and of Life, have every interest in giving them Rights and Respect. Therefore, to accompany this concrete evolution of consciences, it will be most favorable to support global efforts concerning the Universal Declarations of the Rights of Nature.
