Towards a Sustainable World
REPORTERS (POGI)
HORISH GUIPO MICHAEL PASTRANA JAY ALINDAHAO
Learning Outcomes
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SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
• an organizing principle that aims to meet human development goals
• an approach to development that balances different needs against an
awareness of the environmental, social, and economic limitations we face as a
society
• enabling natural systems to provide necessary natural resources and
ecosystem services to humans
• consists of 17 objectives designed to serve as a "shared blueprint for peace and
prosperity for people and the planet, now and into the future
• formulated in 2015 by the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) as part of
the Post-2015 Development Agenda
• The objective is to enhance human-environment interaction by focusing on
managing and safeguarding the planet's natural resources for future
generations as well as millions of other species
Critical objectives for environment and development policies:
1) Reviving growth
2) Changing the quality of growth
3) Meeting essential needs for jobs, food, energy, water, and sanitation
4) Ensuring a sustainable level of population
5) Conserving and enhancing the resource base
6) Reorienting technology and managing risks
7) Merging environment and economics in decision - making
Governments and scholars have been on their toes in an attempt to
attain sustainable development. In this era of unrelenting challenges
in politics, society and particularly the environment. (e.g. Climate
change, waste disposal, biodiversity, forestry and the like), stability is
undoubtedly sought after by nearly every single nation-state.
Government have been challenged come up with ways to develop their
communities exploiting the natural resources, and to craft policies that
help achieve this goal.
The United Nations (UN) often cites Agenda 21 of 1992, its Sustainable
Development Knowledge Platform, where the topic of sustainable
development is discussed. Agenda 21 advocates education to disseminate
information regarding sustainable development (Jickling,1994).
Since then, countries all over the world have integrated this action plan
of the UN in their respective governments, such as in the case of Canada
when its National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy
(NRTEE) instituted the Sustainable Development Education Program
(SDEP) in the same year that Agenda 21 was established (Jickling,1994).
The United Kingdom’s UK Strategy for Sustainable Development
crafted in 1994 aimed to raise the awareness of the people
through the integration of environmental policies into all
aspects of government, a shared responsibility between
government, local authorities, businesses, and non-
governmental organizations,(Munton & Collins,1998) among
other provisions in the Strategy.
SUSTAINABILITY
• may be also likened to stability
• Can be defined as the capacity to
maintain or improve the state and
availability of desirable materials or
conditions over the long term.
However, there are a few key
and subtle differences between
the two.
A Sustainable environment is resilient enough to withstand man-
made and natural challenges, and can also recover from such if
needs arise. Sustainability leads to stability; however, stability
alone may not necessarily lead to sustainability.
Stable environments are simply resistant to change but somehow
lack the element of resiliency that sustainable environments
possess because it is far easier for stable environments to become
unstable in comparison to the possibility of sustainable
environments becoming “unsustainable”.
Government policies must prioritize environmental concerns for sustainable
development. The environment is crucial for livelihoods and should be considered
in decision-making processes. Using ecological sustainability as a principle,
governments can protect and preserve Earth's ecological systems, making the
environment more resilient to challenges and threats, and thus civilizations.
In the long term, environmental and ecological concerns benefit humanity.
Environmental issues should be given top priority in policies and decision-
making processes in order to achieve sustainable development. The
implementation of these rules will be facilitated by education about a safe,
healthy ecology, creating a stable environment for everybody.
QUESTION
TIME!
1) Enumerate all the Sustainable
Development Goals.
2) Give one action or advocacy that you
think can help achieve sustainability.
3) Why do you think Sustainable
development is important in the
society?
