Category Archives: KOFI ANNAN

RESPONSIBLE CONSUMPTION AND PRODUCTION BY KOFI ANNAN

 

A Spirit World Message.

If all people were responsible, we would have had sustainable development on Earth. Unfortunately, people are not.

But you can make a difference as a global citizen, as a consumer. Let me give some advice.

If you live in a country with a multiparty system and governance, you can vote for the people you are in line with, who have the same responsible opinion as yourself, welfare for all.

Secondly, you can make noise; you can be an activist of responsible behaviour as a consumer. You can give your opinion on social media and share it with others, so companies who behave irresponsibly are held accountable. You would be surprised when you watch closely companies that you thought acted responsibly actually were involved in child labour, destruction of local economies and or environmental damages.

Lastly, you have power as a consumer. You do not need to buy products from irresponsible companies. Use your voice, and you can make a difference.

Massive amounts of food go to waste every year, and at the same time, people who live in extreme poverty starve to death. Companies and political leaders have an obligation that food handling is given priority for the needy, hungry people.

Climate change has caused a humanitarian emergency with drought, floods and destroyed crops. Billions of people are hit by the consequences of greenhouse gas emissions, subsidised by “responsible governments”. Are political leaders accountable for encouraging the oil and gas industry with subsidies in fossil fuel production that causes people unliveable, unsustainable lives? Of course, they are not behaving responsibly.

But political leaders can turn around. They can move these subsidies to green technology. Then you find responsible production; then, you become responsible political leaders. Likewise, companies can become responsible employers where their employees find the true meaning of corporate responsibility to combat the climate crises and provide society with sustainable development for all people.

To ratify the Paris Agreement and to meet the goals are to behave responsibly. Political leaders! Have these billions of people in mind that either will suffer from your decisions or achieve sustainability in their lives. You can make a change. You can become responsible political leaders for the sustainability of Planet Earth.

Responsible consumption and production is a sustainable development goal of the United Nations; you can meet this goal; it is a matter of political will and responsible behaviour.

SUSTAINABLE CITIES AND COMMUNITIES BY KOFI ANNAN

 

A Spirit World Message.

Long-term planning is the key to sustainable cities and communities. In developing countries, people are drawn to urban areas whilst the opportunities for jobs, employment is far more achievable than in rural areas. On the African continent the population will double to 2,5 billion people in 2050. That is the forecast and what the countries of this continent have to plan.

We have observed large cities that, without planning, building infrastructure, transportation facilities, and housing areas, give the ground for slum areas. By long-term planning in populated areas, you will avoid miserable conditions where lack of water and sanitation result from poor planning.

Even ancient Rome planned for these crucial elements of welfare, water and sanitation. Quite another perspective at that time, but they planned their cities because they knew that to achieve sustainable environment and livelihoods, they had to prepare themselves, prepare the infrastructure for its inhabitants.

In developing countries, particularly on Africa’s con-tinent, people do not have to foster polluted areas but experience climate change because they have become prisoners of the developed countries and their climate emissions. Developing countries know the hazardous effect of pollution and must empha-sise green technology.

Beijing city in China has to close their steel and cementing factories during the wintertime due to air pollution and health issues. It is a necessity. Sustainable cities and communities provide healthy air, fresh air so people can breathe and enjoy their lives outside; enjoy parks and nature, a prominent part of beautiful cities.

In developed countries, they strive with air pollution. Economic growth with polluting industries has created cities and communities that are not sustainable, need to change, mitigate their emissions, give back people their freedom, and their nature to enjoy where they live. The big cities and their societies are there for renovation; they are no exception. The future calls for a sustainable environment.

The technology of today will bring forward new green facilities with autonomous cars and drones for package delivery. It is only our imagination that will stop further development.

People of the world; there is freedom of speech, health issues will be heard.

When you cannot breathe, there is no life. Create beautiful cities where people can enjoy life, enjoy growth, and find education where hunger and poverty are of the past; where people can enjoy employment, good jobs, a good foundation for income for sustaining their families and their lives.

Cities and communities of the future must be sustainable, resilient, and have all you need to meet that goal.

REDUCED INEQUALITIES BY KOFI ANNAN

 

A Spirit World Message.

Inequality is human-made. We may have different religions, different colour of skin, another gender, but we all belong to the human race.

Failing to provide education gives illiteracy. Education is a human right. Education provides the fundament for equality, for understanding what we read and write. We are of different languages, cultures, and ethnic belonging, but we are born by the same creative force carved out of God’s hands.

Religions give a taste of inequality. How can that be when we are spirits of the same Creator made out of his love for us all? Sanctity call for equality. We are of the exact origin; men and women, boys and girls, and the newborn child. We were made equal, on equal terms. Gender unites us with the same human right for a dignified life as sanctified human beings. It is a sustainable development goal of the United Nations.

Wealth divides us and impoverishes us as human beings.

The world has tremendous wealth in few hands and needs a social profile to end poverty and hunger. Wealth is for all. However, decent life is to live in modesty so everyone can share the resources on planet earth. That makes us equal and reduces inequality, the sustainable development goal of the United Nations.

Food, security, a just life, healthy life is to be born equal. The United Nations is the mother to every child on earth because children, boys and girls, women and men, are treated differently.

Countries like Yemen, The Democratic Republic of Congo, Chad, South Sudan, Syria and other developing countries with food shortage, where people go hungry to bed, feel forgotten by the world. Open a haven for these people deprived of a decent life, who live in homes people in the wealthy countries would have found humiliating. Provide them with food, livelihood and sustainable life.

You do not need a lot of empathy to place yourself in their place. Let them know that God is present on Earth and in heaven because you are Gods hands in your lives on Earth; you are Gods hands, do not forget that you were made equal, that inequalities are human-made and that you can do something about it. That is why you have the sustainable development goals prepared for you by the United Nations.

Love must always come first, be foremost. Care is a beautiful word; let it go into action. Care is what these poor souls who live in extreme poverty search for, cry for, dream about. Fulfil their dreams, and let inequality be history.

God bless you.

Amen.

INDUSTRY, INNOVATION AND INFRASTRUCTURE BY KOFi ANNAN

 

A Spirit World Message.

Hunger haunts millions of people, particularly on the African continent, even though this continent has 60% of the worlds uncultivated arable land. What a tremendous unutilised source on Earth that can provide food security, reduce poverty and eradicate hunger. Technology, automation, and the robotisation of agriculture can make a difference, a massive utilisation, and impact global health.

What a waste of opportunities. It is a matter of political will, finance, allocating technological resources and innovation, and building infrastructure so harvesting from these realisable arable lands can take place.

We, the peoples, need to join in this formidable investment and work. Imagine what kind of possibilities you have to create decent jobs for millions of people, for poor people in developing countries where employment is scarce. Make unemployment history.

Provide food security for all through technological advancements by giving access to world trade, technology and finance. Food security is achievable and a sustainable development goal for the 21st century.

Planet Earth gives you all you need for proper harvest if you use your intellect. Egotism and the narrow interests of political leaders are of the past.

We need a mutual effort;
we need to see beyond national borders,
we need to see people as equal, with the same opportunities to an equitable life,
we need a common desire to bring the world into balance.

Manufacturing is a key for economic growth, whilst the pandemic, Covid-19, a health issue that needs to be resolved. Industrial development and health must be in balance and handled together for developing countries to meet their targets. Medical innovations, pharmaceutical industries are as vital as the crops in the ground.

The world needs to tackle all the sustainable development goals because they are a collective target that requires a common platform. They are dependent on each other, whereas independent solutions are necessary to meet the global objective – a world for all, a world where every human being has the same importance as equals, we the peoples of the world.

DECENT WORK AND ECONOMIC GROWTH BY KOFI ANNAN

 

A Spirit World Message.

I am a voice of the poor, the hungry, the afflicted due to climate change, conflicts and wars—people who feel abandoned, who are unemployed, whose life is miserable.

Economic growth is words, “only words” for the afflicted. We dream about a just world where we are treated equal, but we feel that equality is a beautiful word but with no substance. We search for decent jobs. We are decent people, and we want all the best for everyone, the wealthy and the poor, but economic growth drowns the voice from the poor.

We want work, not charity. We are charitable people. Helping the less fortunate, assisting people with illness, caring for the elders, for the children, but we strive to give our children a decent life.

Climate disasters create refugees. It feels like we are lost, and we struggle between death and life with conflicts created by human beings by their desire for positions, for power.

Egotism is a stumbling block in a world where the wealthy require more wealth. Rich countries, world leaders, can eradicate poverty and hunger and prepare the ground for societies that create decent jobs for all.

Economic growth is, of course, vital for an increased population in providing decent lives, decent jobs, but equality and justice must go hand in hand with economic growth.

The United Nations is there to coordinate, collaborate agreements of multilateralism, the beauty of the United Nations where national borders for a while are erased because the peoples of this world are equal, equal in the United Nations’ eyes.

Decent work and economic growth must be sustainable because they belong to each other. Without economic growth and an increased population, work would have been scarce.

Bring in policy measure world leaders to eradicate hunger and poverty and create decent jobs for all, and you will find greatness in your work.