ENVIRONMENT, INDUSTRY AND POLLUTION CONTROL

Environmental issues continue to dominate our discussions and consciousness as it is now clear that the physical, chemical as well as the biological integrity of our planet is being compromised daily. Distinguished ladies and gentlemen, we live in a precarious world; one of the greatest problems the world is facing today is that of environmental pollution, increasing with every passing year and causing grave and irreparable damage to the earth. Environmental pollution consist five basic types of pollution, namely, air, water, soil, noise and light. Air pollution is cause by the injurious smoke emitted by cars, buses, trucks, trains, and factories, namely sulphur dioxide, carbon monoxides and nitrogen oxides even smoke from burning leaves and cigarettes are harmful to the environment causing a lot of damage to man and atmosphere.

Evidence of increasing air pollution is seen in lung cancer, asthma. Water pollution caused industrial waste products released into lakes, rivers, and other water bodies, has made marine life no longer hospitable. Humans pollute water with large scale disposal of garbage, flowers, ashes and other household waste. In many rural areas one can still find people bathing and cooking in the same water, making it incredibly filthy. Acid rain further ads to water pollution, noise pollution, soil pollution and light pollution too are damaging the environment at an alarming rate. Noise pollution include aircraft noise, noise of cars, buses and trucks, vehicle horns, loudspeakers, aircraft  and industry noise, as well as high-intensity sonar effects which are extremely  harmful for the environment. If these trends continue, it would definitely result to deflection of ozone layer and global warming.

 

Ladies and gentlemen, I will affirm that trade openness brings more production efficiency to the economy. Higher competition would close down companies operating with old and inefficient equipment. Higher prices for energy are an incentive to reduce energy consumption. As well, the removal of subsidies to capital intensive industries in developing countries would represent an incentive to labor intensive activities in developing countries would represent an incentive to labor intensive activities, which are less pollutant.

My commission came up of with environmental goods and services industry which consist of activities to produce goods and services to measure, prevent, limit, minimize or correct environmental damage to water, air and soil, as well as problems related to waste, noise and eco systems. This includes cleaner technologies, products and services that reduce environmental risk and minimize pollution and resource use.

Furthermore, in our effort toward pollution control, we classify the environmental services sector to comprise sewage services; refuse disposal services, sanitation services and other cleaning services to exhaust gases, noise abatement service, nature and landscape protection services, and other environmental services. Organization of Economic Cooperation Development Countries modernize and updated the classification of environmental service of which recycling services and protection of biodiversity were included in order to protect the environment, yet there are hosts of industries around the developing countries today that are being consumed by coastal and gully erosion, sea incursion, bush fires etc. with lives and billions of dollars’ worth of properties being lose. As our compliment effort to control pollution, my commission spent billions of dollars in order to ensure that pollution is controlled across the globe through environmental services and equipment.

Almost all the developed countries are free from pollution because they adhere to international treaty and legislation, but 56% of developing countries are still facing environmental pollution because they failed to adhere to international standard guided trade in environment