Topic: Promoting Sustainable Industry in the Developing World
Country: Algeria
Delegate Name: Melanie Kruvelis
School: Royal Oak High School
Topic page: background guide and all position papers All Algeria position papers GLIMUN 2008 committees
Those who dwell in developed nations, spending the day searching through television channels, may occasionally stumble across countless images of impoverished populations living in dire situations. While these brief commercials may be prone to fabrication, the pictures they produce juxtapose the immense gap between developed nations and those struggling to maintain a reasonable standard of living. As a country looking to step out from the shadows of its past and enter the twenty-first century as a developed nation, the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria is prepared to promote industrialization within its borders, in hopes to deliver a boost unto the nation's workforce. However, the surge of environmental problems due to the rapid increase of infrastructure in more secure nations has created an impossible quandary for nations attempting to instigate stability. Because of this, Algeria would like to ensure the futures of our descendants by promoting environmentally sound methods of modernization.
Algeria wholly intends to achieve the aims instated by the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), developmental targets for African nations put in place by the United Nations. In order to turn this vision of eradicating poverty into a plausible reality, industrialization within Algeria is imperative. Realistically, it is improbable that African nations such as ourselves can reach an economic and social equilibrium with more developed nations without the means to produce jobs within our country. As a proud member of the African Union, Algeria aided in drafting plans for the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD), an organization established in 2001 that provided the launching pad for initiating a strong basis in the continent's newly aimed efforts to instill socio-economic change. As of 2003, NEPAD has adopted the African Productive Capacity Initiative, which looks to promote the necessary industrial component to ensure Africa's growth and development. The inauguration of these programs has indeed set forth intentions for an advancement in both Algeria and Africa as a whole.
The threat of our receding atmosphere, however, has stunted the support of industrialization in developing nations. These nations, wrought with turmoil-filled pasts, must develop stronger means of production in hopes to promote the augmentation of a middle class. Algeria aims to acquire policy that allows for the advancement of modernization and also promotes cleaner production. Although this feat has been proven difficult to be accomplished from an economic standpoint, with aid from the United Nations Commission for Sustainable Development (CSD), Algeria desires to advocate the relevance of taking steps towards a "green" industrial sector. Algeria recognizes the importance of environmental management pertaining to the priorities of corporations, and if the proper amount of initial fiscal funding is provided towards commencing these goals, we will work to research and develop new means to promote cleaner production, by establishing long-term research institutes with collaboration from the International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB). Funding allocated to this R&D initiative will also provide the means to increase the number of entrepreneurial opportunities for those who are active in the search for procuring sustainable development policies.
The nation of Algeria has already proven itself to be capable of supporting environmental causes, through programs like the Algerian Industrial Pollution Control Project, which financed the evolution of mechanisms aimed to maintain environmental safety through industrialized endeavors. With the addition of limited funds apportioned by the United Nations, Algeria can set the standard of development rate high for other developing African nations and beyond. The designation of capital for the procreation of environmentally sound industries will can ensure the protection of dwindling natural resources, along with with the creation of a stable middle class. The eradication of poverty and the future of the world as a whole is in the hands of this esteemed committee. It is up to the honorable delegates to make the right choice.
