What Next? 4 Ways To Build A Sustainable Future
If we act now, we can prevent that impact from growing, as urbanisation burgeons to support a population heading to nine billion. Instead we can encourage the sector to support the global transition to an inclusive, green economy. For example, greater collaboration and transparency could overcome the fragmentation that acts as a barrier to both profitability and efficiency gains that could be scaled up through things like district energy, renewables or resource management. On a fundamental basis, the sustainability movement is easy enough to understand.
Small Island Developing States and Least Developed Countries were among those who made the biggest pledges. Wikiquote has quotations related to Sustainable development.Sustainable Development Knowledge Platform, United Nations platform on sustainable development. World Business Council for Sustainable Development Archived 10 April 2009 at the Wayback Machine This web site has multiple articles on WBCSD contributions to sustainable development. In 1975, an MIT research group prepared ten days of hearings on "Growth and Its Implication for the Future" for the US Congress, the first hearings ever held on sustainable development. Join the million supporters who stand with us in taking action for our planet Please do not use this field.
For others, however, the convenience of home delivery, variety of food options, all at supermarket-comparable prices are the selling points. These satisfy their functional need of getting food for the week in an affordable and convenient way. In addition to the demand-reduction measures addressed in Course 1, the world must boost the output of food on existing agricultural land. To approach the goal of net-zero expansion of agricultural land, under realistic scenarios, improvements in crop and pasture productivity must exceed historical rates of yield gains.
Ministers, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, the Minister has well established the building sector's importance in bending the climate change curve to stay within the crucial two degree path. In this century of progress, sustainability and innovation are key criteria for designing projects that will help solve the planet's major challenges. Clearly communicate to employees, suppliers, customers and investors that sustainability is now one of your fundamental corporate values and encourage your entire organization to embrace the concept. You may be surprised at the new ideas and innovative thinking that “bubble up” and make their way into your planning process. Technologies such as 5G, IoT and AI are opening a wealth of new opportunities by accelerating the speed of digitalization across multiple industries.
Whether predictions from organizations such as these and others hold true is obviously to be determined, but at least they’re providing a collection of possible road maps with time for course correction. Additionally, we will only achieve the full extent of reduced climate impacts if we draw down existing carbon from the atmosphere. This can be decentralized done through greater investment in carbon capture and storage efforts, including natural climate solutions—land management strategies such as avoiding forest loss, reforestation, investments in soil health and coastal ecosystem restoration. To create our assessment of business-as-usual versus a more sustainable path, we looked at 14 measurements including temperature change, carbon dioxide levels, air pollution, water consumption, food and energy footprints, and protected areas. We've long known the importance of environmental conservation, but it's also crucial to know the locations of critical ecosystems.
As the visual language of geography, maps reveal to us just how interrelated everything is in the world and how interrelated we are to each other—something we understand all the more in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. Geography integrates disciplines like sociology, biology, economics, and even psychology by uniting them within the context of location. Sustainable strategies for the future don’t have to be technically complex or sweeping. Geographer Christopher Swan of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, studies biodiversity in parks, backyards and other natural areas around the city of Baltimore. Swan wants to see what species thrive in cities and how human activities affect them.
Information and communication technologies can help accelerate progress towards every single one of the 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals . ITU contributes to SDG 9 in particular—helping to build resilient infrastructure, promoting inclusive and sustainable industrialization and fostering innovation (specifically SDG Target 9.c). Contributing to the Sustainable Development Goals by sustainably building a world without hunger, malnutrition and poverty is the goal of FAO. The multi-year strategy of the UN Global Compact is to drive business awareness and action in support of achieving the SDGs by 2030. The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean has emphasized the importance of planning as a key tool of policymaking and public management.
Access to education for girls has since improved, the percentage of child marriage has plummeted, and huge leaps have been taken in the domain of sexual and reproductive health and rights such as the dramatic reduction in maternal health. There is a heavy emphasis on making sure that what is built can be maintained and repaired in a way that minimizes the degradation of the original development so that the lifespan of a facility is longer than normal. The Online Solution for Carbon Analysis and Reporting – known as OSCAR – is a tool provided by the UPU to assist postal operators in the analysis of their individual greenhouse emissions by scope source and product. MDGs — Close to 40 per cent of the population of the developing world was living in extreme poverty only two decades ago. Since then, the world has halved extreme poverty, with the UN’s Millennium Development Goals greatly contributing to this progress.