The document discusses environmental problems and their causes, which are linked to exponential population and economic growth. It notes that human population has more than doubled since 1950, and may reach 14 billion by 2100, placing increasing strain on natural resources. Climate change and mass extinctions are accelerating due to the exponential increase in human activities. To develop sustainably, societies must protect natural capital and live off its replenished income, rather than deplete non-renewable resources.
The Green Economy Report (Title page Acknowledgements, Forward, Contents)Green Economy Initiative
This document provides an overview of a report by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) titled "Towards a Green Economy: Pathways to Sustainable Development and Poverty Eradication". The report examines how investments in natural capital and resource efficiency can help transition economies to a green path and achieve sustainable development goals. It analyzes investment opportunities in key economic sectors such as agriculture, water, energy, manufacturing, waste, buildings and transport. The report also models global investment scenarios and discusses enabling conditions needed to support a transition to a green economy globally.
The document discusses the growing concern about sustainability and the limits of the planet's resources to support unlimited economic growth and population growth. It notes milestones like Silent Spring in 1962 and Limits to Growth in 1972 that raised awareness of environmental costs. The widely cited 1987 definition of sustainable development as "development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs" is presented. The situation is described as a need for a new balance between social, environmental and economic concerns to avoid overshoot and collapse of human systems.
This presentation provides an introductory approach to “Sustainability 2.0” and FISDEV (Framework for Integrated Sustainable Development) an open source, collaborative methodology for corporate Sustainable Development.
The "Future of Revaluing Ecosystems" meeting brought together 28 experts to explore ways to better measure and manage the world's natural capital and its contributions to human well-being. Key discussions focused on future trends that will influence ecosystem valuation like rising consumption, climate change, and data availability. Scenarios of different trends in 2025 were explored, such as greater ecosystem shocks triggering demand for more sustainable supply chains. Participants also discussed solutions like financial instruments for ecosystem restoration and new ratings agencies to direct capital to ecosystem management. The overall goal was to change perspectives on nature from something sacrificed for development to something that underpins development.
Gps3004 lecture1: Sustainable Development and the Public SectorGregory Borne
This document provides an overview of a lecture on sustainable development and the public sector. It begins with learning outcomes and an outline of topics to be covered, including the background, political evolution, perspectives on sustainable development, and applying a systems approach. It then covers the evolution of sustainable development from the 1960s to present day. Key milestones and reports are summarized such as the Brundtland report and Rio+20. The UK context is also briefly discussed, focusing on factors impacting public sector organizations from 2012-2015 such as austerity measures and the sustainability agenda.
The document summarizes a discussion from a Stockholm futurists meetup about the concepts of "abundance" and "limits to growth". It outlines Peter Diamandis' view of an abundant future driven by exponential technology versus Paul Gilding's argument for "The Great Disruption" due to planetary limits. The two perspectives map to Jim Dator's "continuation" and "collapse" generic futures. The discussion explores which view to trust given different scientists' assumptions, how values may shift from growth to sufficiency, and whether new technologies appear cool or creepy.
The document discusses environmental problems and their causes, which are linked to exponential population and economic growth. It notes that human population has more than doubled since 1950, and may reach 14 billion by 2100, placing increasing strain on natural resources. Climate change and mass extinctions are accelerating due to the exponential increase in human activities. To develop sustainably, societies must protect natural capital and live off its replenished income, rather than deplete non-renewable resources.
The Green Economy Report (Title page Acknowledgements, Forward, Contents)Green Economy Initiative
This document provides an overview of a report by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) titled "Towards a Green Economy: Pathways to Sustainable Development and Poverty Eradication". The report examines how investments in natural capital and resource efficiency can help transition economies to a green path and achieve sustainable development goals. It analyzes investment opportunities in key economic sectors such as agriculture, water, energy, manufacturing, waste, buildings and transport. The report also models global investment scenarios and discusses enabling conditions needed to support a transition to a green economy globally.
The document discusses the growing concern about sustainability and the limits of the planet's resources to support unlimited economic growth and population growth. It notes milestones like Silent Spring in 1962 and Limits to Growth in 1972 that raised awareness of environmental costs. The widely cited 1987 definition of sustainable development as "development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs" is presented. The situation is described as a need for a new balance between social, environmental and economic concerns to avoid overshoot and collapse of human systems.
This presentation provides an introductory approach to “Sustainability 2.0” and FISDEV (Framework for Integrated Sustainable Development) an open source, collaborative methodology for corporate Sustainable Development.
The "Future of Revaluing Ecosystems" meeting brought together 28 experts to explore ways to better measure and manage the world's natural capital and its contributions to human well-being. Key discussions focused on future trends that will influence ecosystem valuation like rising consumption, climate change, and data availability. Scenarios of different trends in 2025 were explored, such as greater ecosystem shocks triggering demand for more sustainable supply chains. Participants also discussed solutions like financial instruments for ecosystem restoration and new ratings agencies to direct capital to ecosystem management. The overall goal was to change perspectives on nature from something sacrificed for development to something that underpins development.
Gps3004 lecture1: Sustainable Development and the Public SectorGregory Borne
This document provides an overview of a lecture on sustainable development and the public sector. It begins with learning outcomes and an outline of topics to be covered, including the background, political evolution, perspectives on sustainable development, and applying a systems approach. It then covers the evolution of sustainable development from the 1960s to present day. Key milestones and reports are summarized such as the Brundtland report and Rio+20. The UK context is also briefly discussed, focusing on factors impacting public sector organizations from 2012-2015 such as austerity measures and the sustainability agenda.
The document summarizes a discussion from a Stockholm futurists meetup about the concepts of "abundance" and "limits to growth". It outlines Peter Diamandis' view of an abundant future driven by exponential technology versus Paul Gilding's argument for "The Great Disruption" due to planetary limits. The two perspectives map to Jim Dator's "continuation" and "collapse" generic futures. The discussion explores which view to trust given different scientists' assumptions, how values may shift from growth to sufficiency, and whether new technologies appear cool or creepy.
This document summarizes a speech given by Prof. Yehuda Kahane on the occasion of the insurance industry signing the Principles for Sustainable Insurance treaty with the UN. The speech discusses how exponential growth in areas like population, resource consumption, and environmental damage have created a "perfect storm" that threatens humanity. Kahane argues the insurance industry, through financial leverage tools like the new treaty, can help lead the world to a more sustainable path by decoupling economic growth from environmental impacts.
In December 2016, The Rockefeller Foundation’s African Regional Office hosted the Rockefeller Foundation Resilience Convening in Nairobi, Kenya. Over 150 delegates and 40 speakers participated, sharing insights, examples, and engaging in debate and discussion on why and how ‘resilience’ can enhance Africa’s ongoing development.
This document discusses the concept of sustainable development. It provides definitions of key terms like sustainability, sustainable development, and the dimensions of sustainable development, which include economic growth, social inclusion, and environmental protection. It also summarizes the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which were adopted in 2015 and include goals around ending poverty, hunger, improving health and education, achieving gender equality, clean water and sanitation, affordable energy, economic growth, infrastructure, inequality, sustainable cities, responsible consumption, climate action, and protecting oceans and marine resources.
Getting good at disruption in an uncertain world: learning for international ...IIED
From climate change and urbanisation to resource scarcity and geopolitical shifts, our world is experiencing disruptive change that impacts how development work is planned and delivered.
At the same time, this development practice is also increasingly impacted by ‘internal disruptors’ such as the emergence of new donor nations, a growth in crowdsourcing and the rise of social enterprise.
How can international non-governmental organisations (NGOs) prepare themselves for the disrupted future ahead? They could arguably start by learning from Southern NGOs — many of which already manage disruption in the here and now and are invaluable in building agency and achieving lasting change.
These slides summarise the findings from an IIED project to collate and share learning from 23 NGO leaders across Africa, Asia and Latin America on how to manage disruptive change.
Collapse Scenarios, drawn from the Futures special issue on extinction scenar...Wendy Schultz
A prospective client asked for a presentation on societal collapse, with roughly a 400-year time horizon. As I had heard that Prof. Bruce Tonn was editing a special issue of Futures on extinction scenarios, I requested access to the essays ahead of publication. He kindly assented, and I drew on several of the essays to create this slidedeck of "collapse" scenarios (I wasn't asked to take the stories to complete extinction). Some of the stories I wanted to tell were not well-represented in the essays of the special edition, and so I drew on other resources as well. Finally, I chose to interpret "collapse" as "the end of the world as we know it," and thus also included a post-Singularity, nanotech, "mutable world" scenario. Please feel free to contact me (wendy@infinitefutures.com) if you have any questions.
Introduction to sustainable developmentAmbika Thakur
The document provides an introduction to the concepts of sustainability and sustainable development. It defines sustainability as maintaining change in a balanced way that enhances both current and future needs. Sustainable development is defined as meeting present needs without compromising future generations' ability to meet their own needs. The document outlines several key principles of sustainable development including conservation of resources, population control, and increasing public participation. It also discusses the United Nations and indicators used to measure sustainability.
The purpose of the Organisational Sustainability slide show is to present a way organisations, both private and public sector, can :
a) Improve theirs and others sustainability, and in doing so also
b) Show how their progress can be measured in economic, community, and environmental terms .
Sustainable development aims to meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs. It requires balancing social, economic, and environmental considerations. Examples of sustainable development projects include using solar and wind energy, practicing crop rotation in agriculture, and building more sustainable cities and infrastructure. The document outlines 17 Sustainable Development Goals related to issues such as eliminating poverty and hunger, ensuring access to education and healthcare, achieving gender equality, providing clean water and sanitation, increasing access to renewable energy, making cities more sustainable, responsible consumption, and combating climate change.
Sustainability And Economic Developmentjohncleveland
The document discusses sustainability and its connections to economic development. It defines sustainability as meeting present needs without compromising future generations' ability to meet their needs. Economic development strategies can support community sustainability initiatives or sustainable business practices. Businesses benefit from improving their environmental performance through eco-efficiency, innovation, and reducing their impacts on natural capital.
The document discusses the relationship between environment and development. It defines development as improving people's lives and the environment as where we live. The two are inseparable. It then examines different dimensions of development including economic, human, and sustainable development. It analyzes how economic development impacts the environment through externalities and may follow an environmental Kuznets curve. The document also discusses how environmental degradation affects human well-being through impacts on health, livelihoods, security, and social relations. It analyzes the key drivers of environmental change like population, economic growth, and technologies and ways to curtail them like economic and non-economic instruments.
This document discusses the need for a more sustainable world without poverty, inequality, and environmental degradation. It notes that the current path of economic growth and resource use is unsustainable and will not achieve this goal. Dramatic action is needed to build a new global society and transition to a sustainable development model that respects planetary boundaries and balances economic, social and environmental factors. Both mitigation and adaptation actions are required to address climate change and biodiversity loss.
Bill Clinton gave a keynote speech on January 25, 2011 about issues of global interdependence and innovation. He discussed how the problems of today's interconnected world require shared solutions that promote inclusion and equal opportunity. Clinton highlighted inequality, instability, climate change impacts, and systems that fail to provide for many people. He argued for building economies with shared benefits where more people feel fulfilled and dignified. Clinton also urged investing in small businesses to create jobs and embracing sustainable energy to help regions like the Middle East diversify their economies.
This document provides an overview of pathways towards a green economy and sustainable development. It discusses how investing 2% of global GDP into key economic sectors could help transition the world economy onto a more environmentally sustainable path. The sectors discussed include agriculture, fisheries, water, forests, renewable energy, manufacturing, waste, buildings, transport, tourism, and cities. Transitioning to a green economy in these sectors could catalyze economic activity comparable to business as usual, while reducing environmental risks and increasing resource efficiency. The report also examines what policy changes and enabling conditions would be needed to support a global shift towards a green economy.
Importance of Social , Political and Economic Sustainability in Industrial Gr...Dr Muhammad Jamil Bajwa
Presentation includes population,literacy rate,major crops and exports in Pakistan.It also focuses on sustainable development/sustainability and its main characteristics,global issues,opportunities/challenges, economic impact,sustainable industrialisation and SME etc.
The role of business in the transformation to a post-growth, post-consumer so...Wilmette Institute
Based on concepts from ELEVEN by Paul Hanley, business can be seen as both an active and passive participant in a world at risk due to consumerism and its consequences, and economic planning based on an ethos of never-ending growth. In his book ELEVEN, Paul Hanley uses multiple sources to present a clear and logical description of the genesis of the current paradigm and where it is inexorably leading. Science informs us that the current economic order is unsustainable. With the world population projected to rise another 50% to 11 billion by 2100, current economic and environmental issues will deepen and turn catastrophic. As the notion that there is a spiritual aspect to reality fades into anachronism, the sustainability crisis deepens.
The core proposal of the book and the learnshop is that the solution to the seemingly insurmountable and catastrophic issues facing the world today can be found through a comprehensive public education approach that leads to profound ethical-social-ecological transformation. Such a program can be spearheaded by responsible business and their activities in the community —for example, supporting neighbourhood grass roots initiatives. Business can play play an enabling role in this process. It can reorient advertisements that suggest how consumer goods should not define us and symbolise who we are, and instead promote environmental and moral values that result in a sustainable future. Instead of a focus on profits only, business can support communities to transform, and demonstrate by example that “avarice and self-interest (need not) prevail at the expense of the common good.” Ultimately, in order to realistically address world issues, businesses will need to live a new morality, contribute to a reduction in excessive consumption, and renounce the paradigm of continuous economic growth. A sustainable, values-based reality needs to be made visible through education, particularly moral education, starting with children and youth.
What new insights or learning do you hope your learnshop will provoke?
To investigate the present environmental and economic issues so that our awareness is improved, and that we can clearly explain why a change in paradigm is essential. The learnshop will seek to gain insight and understanding about the issues facing the world and the role of business. Through discussion and sharing of ideas we hope brainstorm what could and should be done to address these issues – both the possible and the desirable. Which values/virtues are present and absent in the current paradigm? How to select a plan of action in the face of confusing messages and “false news.” Which virtues or values, if implemented, have the greatest potential for affecting constructive change? Finally what are the barriers to change that need to be overcome. What are the main themes that can be effectively addressed by the business community and what methods and materials are needed to address them?
The document discusses the upcoming UN Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20) and outlines UNESCO's vision and commitments.
The three main points are:
1) Rio+20 provides a unique opportunity to reset the world on a path towards more sustainable and equitable development, but "business as usual" is not enough. Green economies must be complemented by building inclusive, fair societies.
2) Education is the foundation for achieving sustainable development goals and building green societies. Investing in quality education, including education for sustainable development, is crucial.
3) Science, culture, media, and protecting oceans and freshwater resources will all be important drivers of the transition to sustainable development. UN
This document discusses the concept of sustainability as a new business model that considers future generations and the environment. It provides examples of sustainable businesses and social entrepreneurs that have generated solutions to social and environmental problems. While progress has been made, bridging divides between business and sustainability advocates will be important to achieve environmental stewardship, prosperity, and equity for all.
Presentation defines Sustainability, Sustainability Management, and presents some basic tools the Sustainability Professional can use to design and implement a Sustainability strategy.
Global Goals: Every Achievement Counts (Section 2: Global Goals)Koh How Tze
The document discusses three major global initiatives focused on social, economic, and environmental development:
1) The UN's Sustainable Development Goals, which aim to solve challenges by 2030 across 17 goals in areas like poverty, hunger, health, education, gender equality and more.
2) China's Belt and Road Initiative, a large-scale infrastructure project focused on connectivity and cooperation among countries.
3) Religious community movements, though no single clear strategic plan is mentioned. Achieving the goals of these three overlapping initiatives could help realize a more prosperous and sustainable future.
This is the introduction chapter extracted from the Manual “The Teacher´s Guide-Design for Sustainability” by Gaia Education. This is a practical manual for sustainability teachers, ecovillage and community design educators and facilitators who are conducting courses on the broad sustainability agenda.
A new vision of Economics will not emerge from the economic powers and mainstream capitalist systems alone. It is not a vision to be realized only by economists or business interests. This new vision will emerge instead from the bottom up in country after country and village after village around the world as people learn to build and take control of their own economic futures, find new ways to measure their own sense of well-being, learn to manage how the Earth’s limited natural resources are to be protected and nurtured for future generations -- after all these are our and their commons -- establish new ways to distribute wealth and secure basic living standards and dignity for all, protect the health of labour, and develop a sense of unique cultural and regional identity not dictated by global trends and political strong arms.
The document discusses building the foundations for a post-2015 development framework at the Rio+20 conference. It argues that the transition to a green economy provides an opportunity to promote long-term sustainable and pro-poor growth. It raises key questions about how to secure livelihoods amid global challenges, foster inclusive growth within environmental limits, and ensure ownership, delivery and accountability in development. It outlines issues that could be addressed in sustainable development goals to complement and improve on the Millennium Development Goals, including poverty, consumption, cities, biodiversity, oceans, and more. Civil society organizations are seen as important partners in the Rio+20 and post-2015 processes.
Croatia - Sustainability, Equity and the Green EconomyUNDP Eurasia
1. The document discusses issues of environmental sustainability, equity, and the green economy and their implications for Croatia.
2. It notes that while progress has been made in some areas, environmental sustainability and equitable development are increasingly threatened and closely linked.
3. Specific examples of UNDP programs in Croatia that have helped promote energy efficiency, reduce emissions, and create green jobs are provided.
This document summarizes a speech given by Prof. Yehuda Kahane on the occasion of the insurance industry signing the Principles for Sustainable Insurance treaty with the UN. The speech discusses how exponential growth in areas like population, resource consumption, and environmental damage have created a "perfect storm" that threatens humanity. Kahane argues the insurance industry, through financial leverage tools like the new treaty, can help lead the world to a more sustainable path by decoupling economic growth from environmental impacts.
In December 2016, The Rockefeller Foundation’s African Regional Office hosted the Rockefeller Foundation Resilience Convening in Nairobi, Kenya. Over 150 delegates and 40 speakers participated, sharing insights, examples, and engaging in debate and discussion on why and how ‘resilience’ can enhance Africa’s ongoing development.
This document discusses the concept of sustainable development. It provides definitions of key terms like sustainability, sustainable development, and the dimensions of sustainable development, which include economic growth, social inclusion, and environmental protection. It also summarizes the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which were adopted in 2015 and include goals around ending poverty, hunger, improving health and education, achieving gender equality, clean water and sanitation, affordable energy, economic growth, infrastructure, inequality, sustainable cities, responsible consumption, climate action, and protecting oceans and marine resources.
Getting good at disruption in an uncertain world: learning for international ...IIED
From climate change and urbanisation to resource scarcity and geopolitical shifts, our world is experiencing disruptive change that impacts how development work is planned and delivered.
At the same time, this development practice is also increasingly impacted by ‘internal disruptors’ such as the emergence of new donor nations, a growth in crowdsourcing and the rise of social enterprise.
How can international non-governmental organisations (NGOs) prepare themselves for the disrupted future ahead? They could arguably start by learning from Southern NGOs — many of which already manage disruption in the here and now and are invaluable in building agency and achieving lasting change.
These slides summarise the findings from an IIED project to collate and share learning from 23 NGO leaders across Africa, Asia and Latin America on how to manage disruptive change.
Collapse Scenarios, drawn from the Futures special issue on extinction scenar...Wendy Schultz
A prospective client asked for a presentation on societal collapse, with roughly a 400-year time horizon. As I had heard that Prof. Bruce Tonn was editing a special issue of Futures on extinction scenarios, I requested access to the essays ahead of publication. He kindly assented, and I drew on several of the essays to create this slidedeck of "collapse" scenarios (I wasn't asked to take the stories to complete extinction). Some of the stories I wanted to tell were not well-represented in the essays of the special edition, and so I drew on other resources as well. Finally, I chose to interpret "collapse" as "the end of the world as we know it," and thus also included a post-Singularity, nanotech, "mutable world" scenario. Please feel free to contact me (wendy@infinitefutures.com) if you have any questions.
Introduction to sustainable developmentAmbika Thakur
The document provides an introduction to the concepts of sustainability and sustainable development. It defines sustainability as maintaining change in a balanced way that enhances both current and future needs. Sustainable development is defined as meeting present needs without compromising future generations' ability to meet their own needs. The document outlines several key principles of sustainable development including conservation of resources, population control, and increasing public participation. It also discusses the United Nations and indicators used to measure sustainability.
The purpose of the Organisational Sustainability slide show is to present a way organisations, both private and public sector, can :
a) Improve theirs and others sustainability, and in doing so also
b) Show how their progress can be measured in economic, community, and environmental terms .
Sustainable development aims to meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs. It requires balancing social, economic, and environmental considerations. Examples of sustainable development projects include using solar and wind energy, practicing crop rotation in agriculture, and building more sustainable cities and infrastructure. The document outlines 17 Sustainable Development Goals related to issues such as eliminating poverty and hunger, ensuring access to education and healthcare, achieving gender equality, providing clean water and sanitation, increasing access to renewable energy, making cities more sustainable, responsible consumption, and combating climate change.
Sustainability And Economic Developmentjohncleveland
The document discusses sustainability and its connections to economic development. It defines sustainability as meeting present needs without compromising future generations' ability to meet their needs. Economic development strategies can support community sustainability initiatives or sustainable business practices. Businesses benefit from improving their environmental performance through eco-efficiency, innovation, and reducing their impacts on natural capital.
The document discusses the relationship between environment and development. It defines development as improving people's lives and the environment as where we live. The two are inseparable. It then examines different dimensions of development including economic, human, and sustainable development. It analyzes how economic development impacts the environment through externalities and may follow an environmental Kuznets curve. The document also discusses how environmental degradation affects human well-being through impacts on health, livelihoods, security, and social relations. It analyzes the key drivers of environmental change like population, economic growth, and technologies and ways to curtail them like economic and non-economic instruments.
This document discusses the need for a more sustainable world without poverty, inequality, and environmental degradation. It notes that the current path of economic growth and resource use is unsustainable and will not achieve this goal. Dramatic action is needed to build a new global society and transition to a sustainable development model that respects planetary boundaries and balances economic, social and environmental factors. Both mitigation and adaptation actions are required to address climate change and biodiversity loss.
Bill Clinton gave a keynote speech on January 25, 2011 about issues of global interdependence and innovation. He discussed how the problems of today's interconnected world require shared solutions that promote inclusion and equal opportunity. Clinton highlighted inequality, instability, climate change impacts, and systems that fail to provide for many people. He argued for building economies with shared benefits where more people feel fulfilled and dignified. Clinton also urged investing in small businesses to create jobs and embracing sustainable energy to help regions like the Middle East diversify their economies.
This document provides an overview of pathways towards a green economy and sustainable development. It discusses how investing 2% of global GDP into key economic sectors could help transition the world economy onto a more environmentally sustainable path. The sectors discussed include agriculture, fisheries, water, forests, renewable energy, manufacturing, waste, buildings, transport, tourism, and cities. Transitioning to a green economy in these sectors could catalyze economic activity comparable to business as usual, while reducing environmental risks and increasing resource efficiency. The report also examines what policy changes and enabling conditions would be needed to support a global shift towards a green economy.
Importance of Social , Political and Economic Sustainability in Industrial Gr...Dr Muhammad Jamil Bajwa
Presentation includes population,literacy rate,major crops and exports in Pakistan.It also focuses on sustainable development/sustainability and its main characteristics,global issues,opportunities/challenges, economic impact,sustainable industrialisation and SME etc.
The role of business in the transformation to a post-growth, post-consumer so...Wilmette Institute
Based on concepts from ELEVEN by Paul Hanley, business can be seen as both an active and passive participant in a world at risk due to consumerism and its consequences, and economic planning based on an ethos of never-ending growth. In his book ELEVEN, Paul Hanley uses multiple sources to present a clear and logical description of the genesis of the current paradigm and where it is inexorably leading. Science informs us that the current economic order is unsustainable. With the world population projected to rise another 50% to 11 billion by 2100, current economic and environmental issues will deepen and turn catastrophic. As the notion that there is a spiritual aspect to reality fades into anachronism, the sustainability crisis deepens.
The core proposal of the book and the learnshop is that the solution to the seemingly insurmountable and catastrophic issues facing the world today can be found through a comprehensive public education approach that leads to profound ethical-social-ecological transformation. Such a program can be spearheaded by responsible business and their activities in the community —for example, supporting neighbourhood grass roots initiatives. Business can play play an enabling role in this process. It can reorient advertisements that suggest how consumer goods should not define us and symbolise who we are, and instead promote environmental and moral values that result in a sustainable future. Instead of a focus on profits only, business can support communities to transform, and demonstrate by example that “avarice and self-interest (need not) prevail at the expense of the common good.” Ultimately, in order to realistically address world issues, businesses will need to live a new morality, contribute to a reduction in excessive consumption, and renounce the paradigm of continuous economic growth. A sustainable, values-based reality needs to be made visible through education, particularly moral education, starting with children and youth.
What new insights or learning do you hope your learnshop will provoke?
To investigate the present environmental and economic issues so that our awareness is improved, and that we can clearly explain why a change in paradigm is essential. The learnshop will seek to gain insight and understanding about the issues facing the world and the role of business. Through discussion and sharing of ideas we hope brainstorm what could and should be done to address these issues – both the possible and the desirable. Which values/virtues are present and absent in the current paradigm? How to select a plan of action in the face of confusing messages and “false news.” Which virtues or values, if implemented, have the greatest potential for affecting constructive change? Finally what are the barriers to change that need to be overcome. What are the main themes that can be effectively addressed by the business community and what methods and materials are needed to address them?
The document discusses the upcoming UN Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20) and outlines UNESCO's vision and commitments.
The three main points are:
1) Rio+20 provides a unique opportunity to reset the world on a path towards more sustainable and equitable development, but "business as usual" is not enough. Green economies must be complemented by building inclusive, fair societies.
2) Education is the foundation for achieving sustainable development goals and building green societies. Investing in quality education, including education for sustainable development, is crucial.
3) Science, culture, media, and protecting oceans and freshwater resources will all be important drivers of the transition to sustainable development. UN
This document discusses the concept of sustainability as a new business model that considers future generations and the environment. It provides examples of sustainable businesses and social entrepreneurs that have generated solutions to social and environmental problems. While progress has been made, bridging divides between business and sustainability advocates will be important to achieve environmental stewardship, prosperity, and equity for all.
Presentation defines Sustainability, Sustainability Management, and presents some basic tools the Sustainability Professional can use to design and implement a Sustainability strategy.
Global Goals: Every Achievement Counts (Section 2: Global Goals)Koh How Tze
The document discusses three major global initiatives focused on social, economic, and environmental development:
1) The UN's Sustainable Development Goals, which aim to solve challenges by 2030 across 17 goals in areas like poverty, hunger, health, education, gender equality and more.
2) China's Belt and Road Initiative, a large-scale infrastructure project focused on connectivity and cooperation among countries.
3) Religious community movements, though no single clear strategic plan is mentioned. Achieving the goals of these three overlapping initiatives could help realize a more prosperous and sustainable future.
This is the introduction chapter extracted from the Manual “The Teacher´s Guide-Design for Sustainability” by Gaia Education. This is a practical manual for sustainability teachers, ecovillage and community design educators and facilitators who are conducting courses on the broad sustainability agenda.
A new vision of Economics will not emerge from the economic powers and mainstream capitalist systems alone. It is not a vision to be realized only by economists or business interests. This new vision will emerge instead from the bottom up in country after country and village after village around the world as people learn to build and take control of their own economic futures, find new ways to measure their own sense of well-being, learn to manage how the Earth’s limited natural resources are to be protected and nurtured for future generations -- after all these are our and their commons -- establish new ways to distribute wealth and secure basic living standards and dignity for all, protect the health of labour, and develop a sense of unique cultural and regional identity not dictated by global trends and political strong arms.
The document discusses building the foundations for a post-2015 development framework at the Rio+20 conference. It argues that the transition to a green economy provides an opportunity to promote long-term sustainable and pro-poor growth. It raises key questions about how to secure livelihoods amid global challenges, foster inclusive growth within environmental limits, and ensure ownership, delivery and accountability in development. It outlines issues that could be addressed in sustainable development goals to complement and improve on the Millennium Development Goals, including poverty, consumption, cities, biodiversity, oceans, and more. Civil society organizations are seen as important partners in the Rio+20 and post-2015 processes.
Croatia - Sustainability, Equity and the Green EconomyUNDP Eurasia
1. The document discusses issues of environmental sustainability, equity, and the green economy and their implications for Croatia.
2. It notes that while progress has been made in some areas, environmental sustainability and equitable development are increasingly threatened and closely linked.
3. Specific examples of UNDP programs in Croatia that have helped promote energy efficiency, reduce emissions, and create green jobs are provided.
Sustainable development aims to meet human needs while preserving natural systems. The document outlines the evolution and definitions of sustainable development through reports like the Brundtland Commission and Earth Summit. It discusses the needs, benefits, and goals of sustainable development, including reducing poverty and hunger while promoting health, education, gender equality, clean water and sanitation, renewable energy, economic growth, and more. Key ways to achieve sustainable development include appropriate technology, reduce-reuse-recycle approaches, environmental education, utilizing resources within carrying capacities, and improving overall quality of life.
UNDP 2011 Human Development Report and TurkeyUNDP Türkiye
UNDP's 2011 Human Development Report, its main messages and indices along with Turkey's performance in these indices. The report has been launched in Turkey by UN Turkey Coordinator and UNDP Turkey Representative Mr Shahid Najam on 2 November 2011. Prof Asaf Savas Akat and Prof Mehmet Altan also participated in the launch event in Istanbul Bilgi University.
The document discusses a keynote speech given by Professor Mohan Munasinghe at an AMCHAM meeting in the Dominican Republic about restoring the Ozama River. It provides background on Professor Munasinghe and the Ozama River restoration project. It discusses some of the challenges facing sustainable development efforts, including climate change, growing inequality, and the need to address multiple interconnected threats. It emphasizes the importance of integrating social, economic and environmental considerations and involving diverse stakeholders. The document promotes applying the SUSTAINOMICS framework to guide sustainable development efforts in a balanced, innovative way.
The Sustainable Development Goals—officially known as "Transforming our World: The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development"—are an intergovernmental set of 17 aspirational goals and 169 targets. Building post-2015 on the accomplishments of the Millennium Development Goals, but cognizant also of their shortcomings, they combine economic, environmental, and social goals that now apply to all countries. They were developed in a broad two-year consultation process during which civil society, citizens, academics, scientists, and the private sector of all countries had the opportunity to contribute.
The document discusses capacities needed for sustainable development goals after 2015. It notes issues with the MDGs like aggregate bias and lack of integration across sectors. The post-2015 goals should address environmental sustainability, quality education, non-communicable diseases, inequality, and governance. Goals should be tailored to both developing and developed countries. There is also a need for more integration across social, economic and environmental areas through synergies and coordinated structures and investment choices. Developing goals will require balancing political realities with promoting justice and reducing inequalities.
The document discusses sustainable development and related topics including:
- An overview of a course on sustainable development with objectives to help students apply concepts to life choices and citizenship.
- Descriptions of development, resources, and human development.
- Details on UNDP, the Millennium Development Goals, and progress toward goals like reducing poverty and improving health.
- An introduction to the Sustainable Development Goals, including goals to end poverty and achieve zero hunger.
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1. On the path to sustainable
development
Presentation Ms Anne-Isabelle D. Blateau
Director UNDP Seoul Policy Centre
27 April 2012
2. On the path to sustainable development
• MDGs …will we achieve them by 2015?
• Key threats to sustainable development
• The “new “ debate on sustainable
development and post 2015
• Addressing inequality…at the core
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3. MDGs…will we achieve them ?
Nepal -Syangboche – 3800 m
Their choices in life ?
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4. Will the MDGs reach them?
Access to education ?
Access to health ?
How are their voices heard ?
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5. MDGs…the picture
very little time left , still quite some work to do.…
Strong call from SG for developed countries to fulfill their commitments to
the world’s poorest people, reminding that aid is not charity, but a smart
investment in security and prosperity and engine of growth..
UNDP is the custodian of the MDGs responsible for monitoring/ analyzing and
pushing forward
Produced successive 5 year reports
Following the 2010 report : Acceleration frameworks at country level
targeting the problematic goals
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6. MDGs… the Global picture
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7. MDGs…the more detailed picture
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2012
8. MDGs…the more detailed picture
• poverty : Hungry people # rose form 842 Mio -90-92 to 1.02 Bio 2009
some good stories ( Malawi 53% food surplus in 2007 v 43% food deficiency in 2005 through natl input subsidy programme)
• Universal primary education enrolment : gap in primary school enrolment : narrowed to 95/100 but progress for poor girls slow
• Gender :
– Women in parliament increased to 19% , with Rwanda in the lead with 50.9% but Korea only at 14.7% - still far from parity
– Maternal mortality declined only marginally from 480 to 450 death/100,00 live birth, esp in Sub Saharan Africa
Korea, among the developed countries still has 18 death/100,000 3 x Japan’s rate
• Under 5 Mortality : Rural children More at risk
- 2009 :, nearly 1/4 of the children in the developing world were underweight, & poorest children most affected.
- Children from the poorest households in the developing world are more than twice as likely to die before their fifth birthday as
children in the richest households.
• Safe water target : on track, but 884 Mio people still use unimproved water sources
Sanitation lagging : in 2006 2.5 bio people _ 37% of pop- did not hv access to latrines, toilets or sanitation ( open defecation
1.2 bio people)
• ODA up by 16 % from 2007 to 2008 to 119,8 Bio USD – but value decreased for first year to devaluation of some currencies
Duty free Imports from developing countries rose from 54% in 1996 to 79% in 2007; from LDCs from 70% in 2005 to nearly 80%
in 2007
Question of post MDGs …new indices? Same indices but more in depth ? ongoing discussion
Need to keep global agenda coherence
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9. Key threats to sustainable development
Bio fuels land use
Gradual build-up Oils prices: food
Relocation to Oil crisis Food crisis prices – transport,
poorer countries fertilizers, etc..
New agenda Move from
• Resilience agriculture to
industry
• Regionalization Cc
Climate • South- south
Change • Environment Governance
Droughts Sharp export
• New energies Financial
Floods decline
Fresh water • Prevention crisis Stocks collapse
Pests • New dimensions Liquidity- loans
• Global responsibility
Disasters Conflicts
Pak : floods
Japan: Tsunami
Haiti :earthquake Over-abuse of
the planet
Globalization : market expansion but increased vulnerabilities
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10. Where do we go from here ..
• Globalization is here to stay and expand
• Population is increasing rapidly putting more demands for
services and on resources
• Crisis are not going to disappear
• Governance institution need to be more reponsible/able to
deal with new challenges
• Incresasing demand for participation
• Increasing role of emerging economies
• Resources are dwindling fast and under major threat
• Dramatic urbanization : by 2050 > 70% pop will be urban
need to find more global solutions
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11. The “new” debate on sustainable
development
• Busan: Nov 2011 new development agenda
New aid environment : emerging countries
everyone responsible and has a role
Need all the actors on board
Country driven : sustainable development happens
primarily at the country level
• Rio +20 : sustainable development – 3 pillars go
hand in hand
Economic growth + Social + environmental sustainability
• Post 2015: moving towards more holistic Sustainable
Development Goals -SGDs..what will they cover?
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12. The “new” debate on sustainable
development
• Rio +20 :
• progress in 6 areas is particularly important:
• From MDGs to Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): progress
towards attaining the MDGs must be accelerated and sustained,
and the post-2015 global development goals must evolve into SDGs.
• Green is not enough. ‘Triple-win’ policies and programming are the
way forward.
• Better governance and capacity development matter.
• Finance for development must be revisited.
• Beyond GDP and the bottom line—new metrics for sustainable
development are needed.
• Leveraging knowledge and innovation to deliver results
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13. Sustainable development: not either or…
“triple wins’ expand the sustainable development ‘sweet spot’ where its
strands intertwine (Figure 1). The more we gear policy towards that
intersection the more it expands, and the less daunting the trade-offs become
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14. Linking the 3 pillars…impact on inequality
• Income poverty, gender gaps, unequal access to
resources, basic services, and decent work,
heightened exposure to disaster and environmental
risks—all go together.
• the human costs of environmental degradation and
social underdevelopment are born predominantly by
the poor, whose livelihoods and welfare are most
closely linked to natural resources and social
protection, and who are therefore most likely to bear
the social costs of unsustainable environmental
practices.
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15. Landless and held by loan sharks
• Bad crops prevented them to repay the
loan..they lost everything
• They now live on a floating house on
the lake but are held in ongoing poverty
by loan sharks for fishing supplies
• Their fish is bought by intermediates
who do not give them fair market price
• Kids no longer go to school
Engaging and empowering them as a
community to
Vietnam-Tonle SAP • Taking turns to get several kids to
school
They once had a piece of land for
• Selling their fish themselves on
their house and to grow crops… the market getting better prices
• Looking at credit alternatives
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16. Environment and inequality threats to human development
UNDP Human development report 2011
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17. … and development gaps will be harder to close
UNDP Human development report 2011
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18. Overlapping deprivations
UNDP Human Development Report 2011
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19. Electricity transforms lives…. They are now connected ..to beyond the mountain
This “Untouchable” has now a thriving metal
Nepal –North west- 2000m+ forging business
community built & managed
micro hydro
Women do not have to carry heavy water buckets Kids can learn basic computer skills
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20. On the way to Rio+20...the messages
• Equity and environmental sustainability must go hand in hand
• Expanding choices of the poor – the route to long term sustainability
• Empowerment, accountability and participation are of both intrinsic and
instrumental value in this path-crucially gender equality and women’s
empowerment
• Balanced regional growth needed to correct the inequality between the
regions
• Decentralization, local and inclusive governance, and social mobilization are
needed for empowered citizens to ‘think globally while acting locally’
• Governance: the glue that holds sustainable development together
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21. On the road to post 2015
• Discussions have already started
• Different proposal are starting to emerge
• Preparing for the Special conference in 2013, the UN is :
– Preparing study on lessons learned with recommendations for the Secretary General
(May)
– Engaging in country level broad, thematic , regional & global consultations
– engaging in discussions and dialogues with partners
– producing discussion and position papers on the post 2015 development agenda
– taking advantage of the opportunities provided by global social networks and mobile
technologies
• The UN Secretary General will appoint a High Level Panel
“We must deliver on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) while moving towards
Sustainable Development Goals after 2015. The transition process must build on what worked
with the MDGs and learn from what did not.”
Olav Kjorven Director of the bureau for development policy ( former minister of ……Norway
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22. The UN & sustainable development
• UNDP & the UN system support national transitions to sustainable
development, by:
• Promoting genuinely integrated national development approaches
that focuses on “triple-win” policies and programming;
• Supporting governments with policy and technical support,
including through innovative development programmes like the
Poverty and Environment Initiative, the Green Commodities Facility,
and Legal Empowerment of the Poor, which can help them move
towards “triple-win” development results;
• Pull the joint effort of UN’s in countries, through UNDP’s
stewardship of the Resident Coordinator system;
• Brokering partnerships—including between donors, the private
sector, and civil society—to turn national visions of sustainable
development into reality
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23. “We all aspire to reach better living conditions. Yet, this will not be possible
by following the current growth model . . . We need a practical twenty-first
century development model that connects the dots between the key issues
of our time: poverty reduction; job generation; inequality; climate change;
environmental stress; water, energy and food security.”
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon .
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24. The “new” debate on sustainable
development
– You are welcome to put your opining on our website
www.undp.org/uspc
Facebook.com/UNDPSPC
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