Fairtrade Beyond 2015
The United Nations Millenium development goals were set to be achieved by 2015.
As the deadline approaches, the UN is discussing what sort of framework should be in place beyond 2015.
The Fairtrade Foundation is joining the global Fair Trade movement in calling for a future international development framework that supports concrete means to achieve sustainable and inclusive development. This should include a fairer world trade system enabling the poorest communities to work their way out of poverty.
Thousands of local leaders across the globe have been contacted by Fair Trade supporters to sign the Fairtrade Beyond 2015 Declaration.
Councillor Linsay Cunningham-Cross and James Alexander, Leader of City of York Council, as he signs the Beyond 2015 declaration.
Councillor Cunningham-Cross, the Fairtrade Councillor in York, was eager to get behind the campaign. She said:
“I have asked the Leader of City of York Council to sign this pledge and make an important statement about global development and the role York as a city can play in that. We want a development framework that enables small producers in poorer countries to trade their way out of poverty, a truly sustainable form of development.
It is important that York looks beyond its own boundary in making a contribution to Fair Trade and ethical global development, and this pledge is an important part of that contribution”.
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