United Nations Activity
From the activity I learnt that generally it’s the less developed countries that want to carry out more sustainable development strategies rather than the ‘developed.’ However countries like China should be made to impose strong policies as they hold 20% of the population so any policy would have a great effect.
Originally I thought being china it would be easy to find policies, however it proved quite difficult. In the end we did manage to find some good policies, I especially liked the sustainable panda one! The lack of implemented strategies did surprise me a bit, what was most intriguing though was that China implemented a clean air act for the Olympics – why are they not imposing this all over China and for a longer period as it did work!
All the 14 countries had different approaches and attitudes to sustainable development strategies which was quite unexpected. I felt that generally the least developed countries would generally benefit from the money and have good strategies ready to implement, whereas people seemed wary of developed countries as to whether the money would actually trickle down into the policies or just get absorbed by the Government. I found it a bit weird how if the USA got the money they would give it to Africa, it would seem more appropriate to give the money direct to Africa.
This is the first time I’ve had to do a presentation like this; therefore I thought it went ok. However it could have been a lot better if we had practised timings more as we over ran dramatically missing out most of the information from the handout. Also we ended up just reading off the handout so next time I would make prompt cards with information. Our handout was very sufficient as it covered the background information, all the policies we found with there limitations as well as an evaluation of the key points on China and what we would do with the $10 billion if we were awarded it.
I don’t particularly like talking in front of people, so this was good practice for me. The exercise was quite enjoyable as it was different to usual work I have done in the past which made it more fun. I think we worked well together as a team and were able to research and present our findings ok considering neither of us like talking in front of people and especially don’t like questioning!!!!!!! :)
From the activity I learnt that generally it’s the less developed countries that want to carry out more sustainable development strategies rather than the ‘developed.’ However countries like China should be made to impose strong policies as they hold 20% of the population so any policy would have a great effect.
Originally I thought being china it would be easy to find policies, however it proved quite difficult. In the end we did manage to find some good policies, I especially liked the sustainable panda one! The lack of implemented strategies did surprise me a bit, what was most intriguing though was that China implemented a clean air act for the Olympics – why are they not imposing this all over China and for a longer period as it did work!
All the 14 countries had different approaches and attitudes to sustainable development strategies which was quite unexpected. I felt that generally the least developed countries would generally benefit from the money and have good strategies ready to implement, whereas people seemed wary of developed countries as to whether the money would actually trickle down into the policies or just get absorbed by the Government. I found it a bit weird how if the USA got the money they would give it to Africa, it would seem more appropriate to give the money direct to Africa.
This is the first time I’ve had to do a presentation like this; therefore I thought it went ok. However it could have been a lot better if we had practised timings more as we over ran dramatically missing out most of the information from the handout. Also we ended up just reading off the handout so next time I would make prompt cards with information. Our handout was very sufficient as it covered the background information, all the policies we found with there limitations as well as an evaluation of the key points on China and what we would do with the $10 billion if we were awarded it.
I don’t particularly like talking in front of people, so this was good practice for me. The exercise was quite enjoyable as it was different to usual work I have done in the past which made it more fun. I think we worked well together as a team and were able to research and present our findings ok considering neither of us like talking in front of people and especially don’t like questioning!!!!!!! :)
