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COMMITTEE: United Nations Environment Program
ISSUE: Using ICTs to increase environmental awareness and responsibility and encourage
sustainable decisions
MAIN SUBMITTER: Google
CO-SUBMITTERS: Argentina, Australia, Colombia, Egypt, Spain, Estonia, Fiji, Finland, Indonesia,
Israel, Kenya, Netherlands, USA, WWF

Reaffirming that universal access to basic education, the transmission of information to
communities on appropriate agricultural methods, waste management, natural resource
management, coastal protection, water resource management, and fisheries management

are essential to the reduction of poverty and to the limitation of its effects on the environment,

Recalling that air pollution can be caused by damaging production techniques, which are

used by the poor, because of ignorance or an inability to invest in environmentally friendly
technologies, and that the aforementioned pollution is also responsible for global warming and
climate change that poor countries cannot afford to fight,

Considering the many harmful effects of global warming that threaten biodiversity,

Considering that more than 1.5 million animals are victims of plastic waste in the oceans each
year,

1. Proposes the creation of a label consisting of several levels which would reflect the

impact of production and operation of the product certified by an organization, which
would apply primarily to ICTs but could be extended to any technology; its purpose
would be to allow consumers to be responsible regarding their purchases and their use;

2. Encourages the member States and organisations present to try to make their
populations aware of the ecological emergency using ICTs through the transmission of
messages for ecological awareness, for which organizations and states must meet the

following conditions:
a. States will have to broadcast these messages on two different structures:
i. On national television channels, every 5 minutes of advertising must

incorporate 30 seconds of content about ecological awareness in the
desired form (microfilm, animated sequence, etc.),
ii. On governmental online websites where messages of the same type as

the ones stated previously should be exposed,
b. Multinational corporations will have to post similar messages on their websites;

3. Encourages transnational companies to provide long-term financial support to the least

developed countries so that they have the opportunity to develop around ICTs by:

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