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the UNDP, putting forward the major issues identified in the study with percentage
of respondents mentioning issue ( UNEP, 1999 ):
( 1 st ) Freshwater scarcity and pollution - 57 %
( 2 nd ) Climate change - 51 %
( 3 rd ) Deforestation and desertification - 28 %
( 4 th ) Poor governance - 27 %
( 5 th ) Loss of biodiversity - 23 %
( 6 th ) Population growth and movement - 22 %
( 7 th ) Changing social values - 21 %
( 8 th ) Waste disposal - 20 %
( 9 th ) Air pollution - 20 %
( 10 th ) Soil deterioration - 18 %.
Summing up, “poor governance” was detected as the 4 th choice among 36 critical
environmental issues, most of them with less than 18 % citations from a total of 200
environmental experts from 50 countries. This category related to both Agenda 21
requirements and environmental ethics claims may be certainly included among
those problems that exist now as suggested by the survey but which are not
receiving enough policy attention. Therefore, the previous suggested change of
international main sport institutions in their central approaches to the environment
protection and legacy may be matched with the “poor governance” problem
detected in the more encompassing perspectives of environmental matters.[…]
Of course, most of the threats listed in hierarchical order by the UNDP outlook
for the 21 st century have been acknowledged since the eloquent warnings for
“saving the Earth” of the 1970s. The novelty here is the lack of adequate
governance often dependent of operational appropriateness and ethical basis.
Another feature revealed by the governance factor put now in such high importance
among other historical problems, is the weakness of the Agenda 21 when dealing
with powerful partners in the transition to environmental sound use of resources.
The recent overthrow of the Kyoto Protocol for the reduction of greenhouse gas
emissions is strongly confirming the key importance of poor governance in
addition to the lack of values-led policies.
GOVERNANCE AND ETHICS
In short, in 2001 global perspectives, the environment and sport theme is
seemingly changing its international focus in order to emphasise adequate
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