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. Taxing those who consume more
Environmental movements around the world call for preserving land, soil, water sources, commons and forests, where indigenous people should have the right to forest produce in a sustainable way.
Environment, particularly in the so-called 'developing countries', is normally sought to be related to the sustainance and livelihood of the poor. Ideally, the poor, nationally and globally, should have an equal access to natural resources and the rich should have to pay more for consuming and polluting more.
2. A legal framework for climate refugees
In coastal areas like the Sundarbans which exist both, in Bangladesh and India, land is being eaten away due to global warming, leaving many homeless. Such ecological and climate change refugees, who are expected to grow exponentially, should have legal rights to be compensated and rehabilitated. Such issues need to be decided within the ambit of a legal framework.
3. Inclusive wealth
The World Bank Wealth Estimates measure a country’s total wealth as being composed of produced capital (infrastructure and urban land), natural capital (forests, cropland, fish stocks, minerals) and human resources (human capital, quality of institutions).
The United Nations University based in Tokyo is working to find indicators for its Inclusive Wealth Report, which includes natural, manufactured and social capital.
The idea of inclusive wealth is supported by the United Nations Environment Programme, in order to provide a compréhensive analysis of the. différent components of wealth by country, their links to economic development and well-being and in terms of policies that are based on social management of these assets.
4. An Ombudsman for future generations
Further, the ecological footprint of nation is assessed by calculating how much one nation has produced and consumed after deducting the cost of pollution found in elements like air and water which make up our biosphere.
The World Futures Council has emphasised the need for appointing an Ombudsman to guard the rights of the future generations to have a just share of the natural resources, to secure their right to inherit a good quality of environment and a healthy planet.
5. Happiness as a measure of progress
As suggested by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s New Measures of Progress, Sarkozy Commission’s recommendations, the Gross National Happiness movement resulting in the UN’s World Happiness Report, there is an urgent need to redefine development and human progress and use another set of measures to evaluate desirable change.