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Country: France
Committee: General Assembly: Second Committee
Delegate: Michaella Bruno
Opening Statement
For many years, issues such as food security, gender inequity, and climate change have
remained persistent problems all around the world. Despite the fact that measures have been
taken in some countries to prevent these problems, today, almost a billion human beings are
still suffering from hunger and malnutrition (Minister Henri de Raincourt, G20 conference on
agricultural research for development). On the issue of gender inequity, in most countries,
women only earn between 60 and 75% of mens wages for the same work (7 appalling facts
that prove we need gender equality now, Global Citizen). While on the issue of climate change,
it is noted by climate studies that the last two decades have been the hottest in the last 400
years (35 Surprising Facts About Global Warming, Conserve Energy Future). While action is
being taken in most developed countries to eliminate and prevent these problems from
worsening, many developing countries may not be stable enough financially or in other ways to
be able to confront these issues completely, and this has increased the urgency of dealing with
these problems not only in developing countries, but globally as well.
National Actions
Though France is a developed country that food security isnt one of the main problems
of, we still recognize that worldwide, it affects billions of people, particularly in developing
countries. Because of this lack of food security globally, France is determined to use their
platform as both a more developed and financially stable country to assist other countries who
are not. Our country plans to do this by first better developing agro-ecology in France, Europe,
and around the world, as well as battling food waste, and combating agricultural commodity
price volatility as much as possible by working closely with the AMIS initiative, which have all
been stated in Frances Food Security Policy, as well as doubling our efforts in contributing
money to developing countries who are in need of our assistance (Food security/Common
Agricultural Policy, Ministry of Agriculture). Additionally, our country will combat climate change
by encouraging other countries to join and act on the Paris Agreement, and we will fight gender
inequity by first taking a closer look at, and pushing to change any of our own laws that are
holding women and men back from having the same rights.
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