Note from the Presidents:

 

Welcome delegates to the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP). It will be a pleasure to have you during our debate; we hope your best effort and your best attitude among the situation we are treating, to reach a viable situation to expedite and achieve the proper usage of nuclear energy in developing countries and its consequences in an environmental and social risks.

 

Attentively:  Maria Camila Segura / Felipe Warren

 

*Any questions to the E-mail’s:  

mseguracamacho@hotmail.com

warrenf228@gmail.com

 

 

About the committee:       

 

• It is the voice for the environment within the United Nations system. UNEP acts as a catalyst, advocate, educator and facilitator to promote the wise use and sustainable development of the global environment.

• It was established in 1972 to create an environmental voice un the United Nations system due to the scientific results of global warming and pollution

• Mission: "To provide leadership and encourage partnership in caring for the environment by inspiring, informing, and enabling nations and peoples to improve their quality of life without compromising that of future generations."

• Mandate: "To be the leading global environmental authority that sets the global environmental agenda, that promotes the coherent implementation of the environmental dimensions of sustainable development within the United Nations system and that serves as an authoritative advocate for the global environment".

 

-Premise:

 

“How can the United Nations support developing countries with nuclear energy. Which are the benefits and environmental risks of this type of energy?”

 

Nuclear energy has been a great weapon to humanity since the World War ll but it is not useful just for destroying, it also creates electricity due to chemical reaction in specific nuclear power plants.

The objective of UNEP in GFMUN 2014 is that delegates identify the countries that are well developed in the frame of nuclear power and how can the support the developing ones for a sustainable economy in electric power.

Nuclear energy has a lot of advantages in a social context but as anything good, it has its risks. Delegates must know the risks in an environmental and a social frame to take them into account in the debate. They must find a viable solution to help developing countries to have nuclear electric power but in the legal and environmental frames.