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COMMITTEE: United Nations Environment Programme
ISSUE: Using ICTs to increase environmental awareness and responsibility and encourage
sustainable decisions
MAIN SUBMITTER: Finland
CO-SUBMITTERS: China, Colombia, Estonia, France, Ireland, Mexico, Nigeria, Senegal, United
Kingdom

The United Nations Environment Programme committee,

Recognising the many problems related to the environment,

Supporting and promoting ICTs in relation to the environment,

Recalling that only 55% of the world's population has access to the Internet,

Bearing in mind the adverse consequences of non-use of ICTs,

1. Requests that the member States create a protocol and form an initiative in order to

increase broadband density and expand access to internet services in rural areas, with
the goal of:
a. Increasing the availability of internet services in rural areas, which can promote
education in many areas including raising awareness on the effects of climate

change,
b. Creating affordable internet services, so people of all social classes can have
access to the internet;

2. Encourages the improvement and the promotion of already existing international
platforms that gather all information, theses, essays, scientific reports about climate
change and its consequences in order to:

a. Promote accurate information about such a sensitive issue everywhere for
everyone,
b. Avoid fake news,

c. Unite international cooperation around a shared topic,
d. Offer practical information about which choices are ecologically better,
e. Discourage corporate advertising for goods or services that have a damaging

environmental impact for youth;

3. Encourages ICT corporations to work with the FAO to create a label certifying tree

planting campaigns, which are led efficiently under the surveillance of experts to avoid

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