SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

PROJECT
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Yash Raj
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What is sustainable development
"Sustainable development is development that meets
the needs of the present, without compromising the
ability of future generations to meet their own needs."

The concept of sustainable development can be interpreted in many

different ways, but at its core is an approach to development that
looks to balance different, and often competing, needs against an
awareness of the environmental, social and economic limitations we
face as a society.
All too often, development is driven by one particular need, without
fully considering the wider or future impacts. We are already seeing
the damage this kind of approach can cause, from large-scale
financial crises caused by irresponsible banking, to changes in
global climate resulting from our dependence on fossil fuel-based
energy sources.

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Sustainability is not a new subject. The security of human lives has always
been understood to depend on the strength and resilience of the natural
world which we inhabit. However, the so-called "human predicament,"
including our mortality and our fragility, as human beings, has typically been
understood as the plight of the individual, and this adversity has frequently
been contrasted with the strength and durability of humanity as a collectively.
Indeed, throughout history people have tended to take for granted the
robustness of nature - and a secure place for us in it. The frailty of individual
lives (including their ultimate cessation) has been seen as an individual
vulnerability that did not apply to mankind in general.

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The Sustainable Development Goals
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) or Global Goals are a collection of 17
interlinked global goals designed to be a "blueprint to achieve a better and
more sustainable future for all".The SDGs were set up in 2015 by the United Nations
General Assembly (UN-GA) and are intended to be achieved by the year 2030. They are
included in a UN-GA Resolution called the 2030 Agenda or what is colloquially known as
Agenda 2030. The SDGs were developed in the Post-2015 Development Agenda as the
future global development framework to succeed the Millennium Development
Goals which ended in 2015.
In short, the 17 SDGs are:

Goal 1: No Poverty: End poverty in all its forms everywhere.

Goal 2: Zero Hunger: End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and
promote sustainable agriculture.

Goal 3: Good Health and Well-being: Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all
at all ages.

Goal 4: Quality Education: Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote
lifelong learning opportunities for all.

Goal 5: Gender Equality: Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls.

Goal 6: Clean Water and Sanitation: Ensure availability and sustainable management of
water and sanitation for all.

Goal 7: Affordable and Clean Energy: Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable
and modern energy for all.

Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth: Promote sustained, inclusive and
sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all.

Goal 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure: Build resilient infrastructure, promote

inclusive and sustainable industrialization, and foster innovation.

Goal 10: Reduced Inequality: Reduce inequality within and among countries.

Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities: Make cities and human settlements
inclusive, safe, resilient, and sustainable.

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Goal 12: Responsible Consumption and Production: Ensure sustainable consumption
and production patterns.

Goal 13: Climate Action: Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts.

Goal 14: Life Below Water: Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas, and marine
resources for sustainable development.

Goal 15: Life on Land: Protect, restore, and promote sustainable use of terrestrial
ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse
land degradation and halt biodiversity loss.

Goal 16: Peace, Justice, and Strong Institutions: Promote peaceful and inclusive
societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build
effective, accountable, and inclusive institutions at all levels.

Goal 17: Partnerships to Achieve the Goal: Strengthen the means of implementation and
revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development.

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The Pillars of Corporate
Sustainability

#The Environmental Pillar

The environmental pillar often gets the most attention. Companies are
focusing on reducing their carbon footprints, packaging waste, water usage
and their overall effect on the environment. Companies have found that have
a beneficial impact on the planet can also have a positive financial impact.
Lessening the amount of material used in packaging usually reduces the
overall spending on those materials, for example. Walmart keyed in on
packaging through their zero-waste initiative, pushing for less packaging
through their supply chain and for more of that packaging to be sourced from
recycled or reused materials.

#The Social Pillar

A sustainable business should have the support and approval of its
employees, stakeholders and the community it operates in. The approaches
to securing and maintaining this support are various, but it comes down to
treating employees fairly and being a good neighbour and community
member, both locally and globally .

#The Economic Pillar

The economic pillar of sustainability is where most businesses feel they are
on firm ground. To be sustainable, a business must be profitable. That said,
profit cannot trump the other two pillars. In fact, profit at any cost is not at all
what the economic pillar is about. Activities that fit under the economic pillar
include compliance, proper governance and risk management.

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#Human sustainability
Human sustainability aims to maintain and improve the human capital in
society. Investments in the health and education systems, access to services,
nutrition, knowledge and skills are all programs under the umbrella of human
sustainability. Natural resources and spaces available are limited and there is
a need to balance continual growth with improvements to health and
achieving economic wellbeing for everyone. In the context of business, an
organisation will view itself as a member of society and promote business
values that respect human capital.
Rio de Janeiro Earth Summit, 1992 In June 1992, more than 100 heads
of states met in Rio de Janeiro in Brazil, for the first International
Earth Summit. The Summit was convened for addressing urgent
problems of environmental protection and socio economic
development at the global level. The assembled leaders signed the
Declaration on Global Climatic Change and Biological Diversity. The
Rio Convention endorsed the global Forest Principles and adopted
Agenda 21 for achieving Sustainable Development in the 21st
century.

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Examples of Sustainable Development
• Wind energy
• Solar energy
• Crop rotation
• Sustainable construction
• Efficient water fixtures
• Green space
• Sustainable forestry

What is Environmental Crisis?

Environmental crisis refers to a situation when an environment fails to
perform its vital function of life sustenance. The environment becomes
suitable as soon as the following happens:

1. Resource extraction remains below the rate of resource

generation.
2. Generation of waste remains within the absorption capacity of the
environment.

Reasons for Environmental Crisis

(1) Population explosion

• The high rate of growth of population adversely affects the

environment.
• It increases the demand for environmental resources, but their
supply is limited.
• This results in overuse and misuse of resources.

(2) Rise in economic activity

• The rise in economic growth results in affluent consumption and

production of goods and services.
• It generates wastes that are beyond the absorptive capacity of the
environment.
(3) Rapid industrialisation

• Rapid industrialisation has led to deforestation, and depletion of

natural resources.

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 • It leads to contamination of water due to the accumulation of
increasing quantity of toxic substances and industrial wastes in
the water bodies.
(4) Urbanisation

• A large migration of population from rural to urban areas results in

the fast growth of slum areas.
• It leads to the excess burden on the existing infrastructural
activities.
(5) Deforestation

• Deforestation refers to cutting down of trees, clearing forest, etc.

• It adversely affects the environment and causes other problems.

(6) Increased use of insecticides, pesticides, and chemical fertilisers

• Farmers and workers suffer health problems due to the increased

use of poisonous insecticides, pesticides, and chemical fertilisers.
• The crop generated also contains chemical elements in it.

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Conclusion

To illustrate, consider our sense of responsibility towards the future

of other species, not merely because - nor only to the extent that - the
presence of these species enhances our own living standards. For
example, a person may judge that we ought to do what we can to
ensure the preservation of some threatened animal species, say,
spotted owls of some specific kind. There would be no contradiction
if the person were to say: "Our living standards would be largely - or
completely - unaffected by the presence or absence of spotted owls,
but I do strongly believe that we should not let those owls become
extinct, for reasons that have nothing much to do with human living
standards." If the importance of human lives lies not merely in our
living standard and need-fulfilment, but also in the freedoms that we
enjoy, then the idea of sustainable development has to be
correspondingly reformulated. There is cogency in thinking not just
about the sustaining the fulfilment of our needs, but more broadly
about sustaining - or extending - our freedoms (including the
freedom to meet our needs). Thus recharacterized, sustainable
freedom can be broadened from the formulations proposed by
Brundtland and Solow to encompass the preservation, and when
possible expansion, of the substantive freedoms and capabilities of
people today "without compromising the capability of future
generations" to have similar - or more - freedoms.

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Bibliography
• www.oxfordreference.com
• www.nationalgeographic.org/article/sustaina
ble-development-goals/
• United Nations Conference on Environment &
Development Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 3 to 14
June 1992 AGENDA 21 – Report
• SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND OUR
RESPONSIBILITIES by Amartya Sen
• www.britannica.com/topic/sustainable-
development
• Sustainable Development Goals: An Indian
Perspective.
• Resource Management, Sustainable Development
and Governance: Indian and International
Perspectives

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