1st Annual Youth Model United Nations Conference
General Assembly
Sustainable Development in Preventing Conflicts
Resolution 2-1
The General Assembly,
Emphasizing the need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to lessen the effect of climate change,
Recognizes OECD green growth indicators such as recycling bins and cycle lanes are rarely put in
place,
Fully aware of the scarcity of finite natural resources available for use,
Having considered some Member States may be hesitant to share information and technology gained
on the subject of sustainable development,
Fully believing all Member States can work together internationally to help further sustainable
development for the benefit of future generations,
Having adopted the Millennium Development Goals in 2000 to avoid future conflict,
1. Calls upon each Member State to further enforce the Kyoto Protocol by reducing emissions
by 18% below 1990 levels relative to each Member State;
2. Encourages United Nations Member States to implement the OECD green growth indicators
into the countries’ societies’;
3. Expresses its hope that each Member State will limit its use of natural resources and look for
alternative methods, for example biofuels or tidal energy, to combat carbon emissions and
consequences of using fossil fuels;
4. Emphasizes the need to disclose this information to other Member States;
5. Declares accordingly that all Member States abolishes and/or any blockades that is preventing
states from achieving their full potential in helping sustainable development;
6. Further requests that all Member States make the Millennium Development Goals a higher
priority to allow sustainable development to further progress.
General Assembly
Sustainable Development in Preventing Conflicts
Resolution 2-2
The General Assembly,
Alarmed by the vulnerability of Less Economically Developed Countries (LEDC’s) regarding natural
disasters and hoping to lessen the mortality rates after these devastating situations occur;
Having considered the needs of More Economically Developed Countries (MEDC’s) to lower their
effects on greenhouse gases whilst providing sustained resources to poorer countries,
Keeping in mind the inevitable increase in climate migrates during the next 20 years due to global
warming,
1. Encourages MEDC’s to provide LEDC’s with more advanced weather technology so that they
can anticipate natural disasters and thus prepare for them;
2. Expressing its hope that more developed Member States provide economical support towards
the development of sources of solar and thermal energy in countries that have high
exposure to sunlight such as in Northern Africa and the Middle East, in order to reduce the
carbon footprint of developed countries;
3. Further invites countries which are members of the United Nations Environmental Program
(UNEP) and/or the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) to continue to continue
their support of research into housing climate migrates;
General Assembly
Sustainable Development in Preventing Conflicts
Resolution 2-3
The General Assembly,
Declaring that the Veggie20 Fund will be a trust fund operating through the UNDPVR that aims to
battle desertification and scarcity of vegetation by 2020,
Bearing in mind that desertification is caused by the lack of vegetation that is a result of vegetation
being used as fuel, vegetation that prevents soil regeneration allowing the soil to erode,
Alarmed by the failure to tackle the expansion of the Sahara Desert,
Aware of the migration that results from the desertification of large areas of land,
Recognizing that international aid would combat this issue in a more efficient manner,
Believing that the steps taken to prevent desertification and regeneration of vegetation would
potentially aid sustainable development due to the economic growth from food surplus,
1. Calls upon the creation of the United Nations Desertification Prevention and Vegetation
Regeneration body (UNDPVR) and the Veggie20 Fund to combat the expansion of
desertification and promote sustainable development;
2. Encourages Member States to donate resources to the Veggie20 Fund that will cooperate
with the UNDPVR to distribute these resources to afflicted countries;
3. Confirms that fuels are necessary for the prevention of desertification to reduce the use of
native vegetation as a source of fuel and should be donated accordingly to the Veggie20
Fund;
4. Affirms the donation of mineral-rich soil to promote the rapid growth of vegetation which
prevents the continuous erosion of soil;
5. Authorizes the contribution by Member States of vegetation with a low net mineral uptake to
allow the regeneration of soil which will encourage vegetation without the risk of mineral
depletion;
6. Expresses its hope for the continuation of the UNDPVR after the discontinuation of the
Veggie20 Fund.
General Assembly
Sustainable Development in Preventing Conflicts
Resolution 2-4
The General Assembly,
Acknowledging that an insufficient supply of water has become an global issue, particularly in certain
areas of Africa, and that a body must organise the distribution of water to these nations in demand,
Recognising that the access to clean water is a basic human right, as set out in Resolution 64/292,
Aware of the danger posed to government approved initiatives in terms of them becoming targets of
terrorist attacks,
Confident that the use of reservoirs will ensure that the water is fairly distributed to the areas that
require it most,
1. Requests the creation of an over ground pipe line spanning 9 countries predominantly
running through Western-Central Africa, with refillable reservoirs in each of the 9 countries;
2. Further resolves to construct three separate desalination sites in Cote d’Ivoire, Chad and
Angola, these sites themselves will be comprised of up to 3 plants within the sites;
3. Calls upon the creation of United Nations Sustainable Desalination Programme (NSDP) as a
body to regulate the distribution of distilled water to countries that may require it, starting
with Africa;
4. Expresses its hope that a treaty will be signed by the affected countries, ensuring their full cooperation with, and authorisation of, the implementation of the scheme in return for a
certain proportion of the jobs created by the plants being offered to locals;
5. Further requests the involvement and oversight of the United Nations Environment
Programme (UNEP), hoping that they may offer support in terms of administration of
contracts and infrastructural input.