In recent years, as globalization has progressed, the rich have gotten richer and the poor have gotten poorer, so the AWC has taken on the responsibility, and duty, of calling on governments and enterprises to use global resources prudently and to devote attention to disparities in wealth.
晚近以來，商業全球化已成趨勢，富者益富、貧者益貧，因此世界公民大會有責任、也有義務，呼籲政府與企業界，正視地球資源的保護與貧富不均等問題。