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Battling Climate Change by Promoting Environmentally Sustainable Development. Dr. Rajendra K. Pachauri. Chairman, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Director-General, The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI).          It is now becoming increasingly apparent that the global community, over several decades, has pursued a path of development which is clearly not sustainable.          In the context of climate change, we are now getting increasing evidence, based on observations, based on data that is available, that the path of development that we have adopted is leading to consequences with changes in the climate that clearly have extremely harmful impacts and hold the potential for far more serious impacts in the future.        The IPCC (the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change), which functions under the umbrella of the World Meteorological Organization and the United Nations Environment Prog...

Improving Sustainability Concept In Developing Countries.       This blogging  aims to enhance and carefully maneuver through the many roles of sustainable architecture in improving the quality of life and the built environment in developing countries. It seeks to, initially, reduce the negative impact of buildings and, secondly, to conserve energy and enhance the ecology. Both can be achieved through the use of sustainable building materials, saving energy, and using renewable energy, and many more implementations. Read more on my next post.

               This is part of a series on the Global Goals for Sustainable Development , in collaboration with the Stockholm Resilience Centre . This blog focuses on goal 3 – Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages.             Are you happy? Or let’s be more specific: imagine a ladder with steps numbered zero at the bottom to ten at the top. The top is the best possible life for you and the bottom is the worst. Which step are you on right now? The average in wealthy OECD nations is 6.6.  If you live in the Nordic countries, Switzerland, Israel, Australia or Canada, then you are likely to be happier than most. Needless to say, if you are living in Greece and Portugal you are likely having a hard time. But improving well-being is a key goal for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Here are five steps to improve personal well-being, societal cohesion and greater cooperation wi...

       WHAT IS         SUSTAINABLE         LIVING?            S ustainable living is the practice of reducing your demand on natural resources by making sure that you replace what you use to the best of your ability.       Sometimes that can mean not choosing to consume a product that is made using practices that don’t promote sustainability; and sometimes it means changing how you do things so that you startbecoming more of an active part of the cycle of life.         We all know that climate change , global warming, depletion of ozone layer and resource depletion are real and their impact on human and animal lives can be devastating. It is an opportunity for people to adopt actions for sustainable living that can help them to reduce their carbon footprint or environmental impact  by altering their lifestyle. Simple measures like using public tra...

UN Secretary General Ban Ki moon                                                         SUMMARY The goals aim, by 2030, is to eradicate extreme poverty, promote prosperity  and people's well-being, while protecting the environment.      Late last night, the United Nations concluded  its negotiations  on the post-2015 development agenda. Member States agreed  a framework for 17 universal sustainable development goals,  which will be adopted by Heads of State at a summit in  September.         According to UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon, the document “Transforming our World: The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development” encompasses a universal, transformative and integrated agenda that heralds an historic turning point for our world. This agreement results ...

THE SUSTAINABILITY DEVELOPMENT SOLUTIONS TODAY IN NEW YORK.  . The first-ever U.S. Cities SDG Index . The Index ranks the 100 most populous U.S. cities, using Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs), based on their performance on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Results show that all U.S. cities, even those at the top of the Index, have far to go to achieve the SDGs.    The U.S. Cities SDG Index uses 49 indicators from 16 of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals – goals that were agreed upon by all countries at the United Nations in September 2015. The Index provides a more holistic and comprehensive assessment of sustainable development challenges faced by U.S. cities than available through other metrics. The top rankings from the U.S. Cities SDG Index are as follows:   The San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara metro region in California wins the top spot, with an overall index score of 61.04. This means that the San Jose MSA is 61.04 percent of the wa...

Sustainability and Sustainable Development - What is Sustainability and what is Sustainable Development?     The definition of sustainability is not nearly as simple as it might seem, likewise with the definition of sustainable develope- ment, This is best illustrated by the fact that there are over 200 different definitions to what is sustainable development. However, the most common definition was defined by the Brundtland Commission in 1987, who documented the sustainable development definition as:   "Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs." This implies that we need to look after our planet, our resources and our people to ensure that we can live in a sustainable manner and that we can hand down our planet to our children and our grandchildren to live in true sustainability. What is sustainability? The three pillars of sustainability But what is ...