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of the issues but not all. In March 2007, the Friends of Clayoquot Sound announced
that environmental groups and the Tla-o-qui-aht First Nation people had won a
five-year Moratorium on Logging in Clayoquot Sound's intact Upper Kennedy Valley
(around 4,000 hectares) despite the provincial government's 2006 logging plan, which
had included this area and where 75 per cent of the original forest had already been
clear-cut. At the time of writing, this deferral allows time for the Tla-o-qui-aht to
develop their own land-use plan for the entire Kennedy watershed.
The logging tenures in Clayoquot are now owned by five local First Nations who
have formed the Iisaak Forest Resources. In January 2012 scientists across North
Box 1.1 Berlin Civil Society Center: Advancing the Post-
2015 Sustainable Development Agenda
In March 2013 two hundred and seventy representatives from over two hundred
civil society organizations from across the globe gathered for three days in Bonn,
Germany, to discuss 'Advancing the Post-2015 Sustainable Development Agenda:
Reconfirming Rights, Recognizing Limits, Redefining Goals'. With a multitude of
discussions and consultation processes going on worldwide, the conference gathered
key actors in the Post-2015 Sustainable Development Agenda debates, helping them
to exchange information, learn from each other and identify common agendas and
strategies.
The Post-2015 Agenda must address inequalities
Inequalities within and between countries in the distribution of wealth, opportunities
or power are drivers of extreme poverty, conflict and violations of human rights.
Therefore, addressing increasing inequalities within and between countries is a central
strategic demand.
The Post-2015 Agenda must respect planetary boundaries
The realization of human rights for all and the eradication of poverty and extreme
inequalities must be achieved within the limits of our planet's resources. This requires
a holistic approach across all development goals and an equitable distribution of the
burdens of adjustment, taking into account historic responsibilities.
The Post-2015 Agenda must aim for a transformation of global
structures
This includes the regulation of financial markets, the restructuring of unfair trade
regimes and of intellectual property rights regimes, the termination of tax havens,
the redefinition of progress away from GDP towards measures of sustainability and
well-being, and policy coherence for development. All these steps are necessary
since the current global economic and financial regimes impose obstacles to poverty
eradication and the full implementation of all human rights. New rules have to be
created and others removed to ensure that the global frameworks do not constrain
human rights and development goals.
Source: adapted from www.berlin-civil-society-center.org/shared-services/post-2015 .
 
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