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Poverty and the Environment

Poverty-Environment Initiative (PEI) of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)

"The PEI is a global UN programme that helps countries to integrate poverty-environment linkages into national and sub-national development planning, from policymaking to budgeting, implementation and monitoring" (www.unpei.org).

  • Works in Africa, Asia-Pacific, Europe and CIS and Latin America and the Caribbean

Issue with Shue's Principles

Local governments go green in Nepal- PEI video

The Initiative is funded by the Governments of Belgium, Denmark, Ireland, Germany, Norway, Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom, the United States of America and the European Commission.

How would Shue feel about a program like the PEI? Does the funding of these larger nations fall in line with his principles or are the smaller nations still paying for the burdens created by the larger nations?

"When radical inequalities exist, it is unfair for people in states with far more than enough to expect people in states with less than enough to turn their attention away from their own problems in order to cooperate with the much better-off in solving their problems" (544).

  • Global problem
  • Environmental degradation - access to food, health, expenses, well-being
  • Management & conservation of the environment = Fight poverty, promote security and preserve the ecosystems that poor people rely on for their livelihoods

Three Commonsense Principles of Fairness

  • When a party takes advantage of others by imposing costs upon them without their consent, the ones taken advantage of are entitled to demand that the offending party should bear sufficiently unequal burdens to correct the inequality that they have imposed.
  • All of whom are bound to contribute to some common endeavor, the parties who have the most resources normally should contribute the most to the endeavor.
  • When the total resources available are so great that everyone could have at least enough without preventing some people from still retaining considerably more than others have, it is unfair not to guarantee everyone at least an adequate minimum.

Global Environment and International Inequality

Henry Shue

"Whatever needs to be done by wealthy industrialized states or by poor non-industrialized states about global environmental problems like ozone destruction and global warming, the costs should initially be borne by the wealthy industrialized states" (545).

  • Ever person is entitled to equal dignity and respect.
  • 'Which inequalities in which other human goods are compatible with equal human dignity and equal human respect?' and 'which inequalities in other goods ought to be eliminated, reduced or prevented from being increased?'
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