Topic: Promoting Sustainable Industry in the Developing World
Country: Cuba
Delegate Name: Gillian Cobb
School: Williamston High School
Topic page: background guide and all position papers All Cuba position papers GLIMUN 2008 committees
Since the fall of the Soviet Union Cuba has realized that sustainable agriculture was the only way to successfully feed their people independent from the support of the former Soviet Union. By following a path of de-industrialization Cuba has been able to reduce the taxing affects of agriculture on their soil and feed their people. For Cuba this means that the precious soil they occupy is used in a manner in which we know that for years to come it will still be viable.
After the fall out of the Soviet Union it was compulsory for Cuba to find ways to keep its country viable. Sustainable industry such as the aforementioned agricultural process was developed in order to fill this void. When we look to Cuba as an example of this no one is denying that it is a hard task to accomplish, “going green,” is in the beginning expensive and requires people to either go back to the roots of their trade or to be reeducated in how to perform their trade in a sustainable manner. But by removing practices that are harmful to the environment and replacing them with ones that are sustainable we create a healthier environment for all people and we eliminate practices that destroy the environment.
The people of Cuba propose that the Environmental Committee creates a resolution that will make it necessary for developing nations to change there industrial practices and change them so that they are sustainable and do not destroy the environment. Cuba proposes that this can be started by sending in educational committees to developing nations and by helping to fund the beginnings of this change, starting with a small country as a trial run. The people of Cuba realize that this will be an expensive, time consuming, and most likely unpopular decision for many countries, but one that is necessary to their safe, sustainable development.
