Dear Aubrey Meyer Yes, I am in favor of the C&C proposal to the UNFCC. Thank you for your work on this. Juliet Professor Juliet Schor Boston College Department of Sociology MA 02467   Implications of systematic caps on natural resources A lasting prosperity requires a much closer attention to the ecological limits of economic activity. Identifying and imposing strict resource and emission caps is vital for a sustainable economy.  The contraction and convergence model developed for climate- related emissions should be applied more generally. Declining caps on throughput should be established for all non-renewable resources. Sustainable yields should be identified for renewable resources. Limits should be established for per capita emissions and wastes. Effective mechanisms for imposing caps on these material flows should be set in place. Once established, these limits need to be built into the macro-economic frameworks. Building a Sustainable and Desirable Economy-in-Society-in-Nature Robert Costanza Ida Kubiszewski Carol Franco Institute for Sustainable Solutions, Portland State University Gar Alperovitz The Democracy Collaborative and Department of Government and Politics, University of Maryland Herman Daly School of Public Affairs, University of Maryland Joshua Farley Department of Community Development and Applied Economics, and Gund Institute for Ecological Economics, University of Vermont Tim Jackson Sustainable Lifestyles Research Group, University of Surrey, UK Juliet Schor Department of Sociology, Boston College Peter Victor Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University, Canada Ronald Colman Genuine Progress Index Atlantic, Nova Scotia, Canada Report to the United Nations for the 2012 Rio+20 Conferenceas part of the Sustainable Development in the 21st Century (SD21) project implemented by the Division for Sustainable Development of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs

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