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SUSTAINABLE &

SUSTAINABILITY
The term Sustainable Development has
acquired much popularity among
scholars, politicians, public servants, and
the civil population alike the Brundtland
Report by the World Commission on the
Environment and Development (WCED)
was presented in 1987.
As defined by the Brundtland Report, “sustainable development is the
development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the
ability of future generations to meet their own needs.”

WCED outlined critical objectives for environment and development policies


following its concept of sustainable development. These are:

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
In this era of unrelenting challenges in
politics, society, and particularly the
environment (e.g., climate change,
waste disposal, biodiversity, forestry
and the like), such stability is
undoubtedly sought after by nearly
every single nation-state
Governments have been challenged to come up
with ways to develop their communities
without exploiting natural resources and to
craft policies that help achieve this goal.
The United Nations (UN) often cities Agenda 21
of 1992, its Sustainable Development
Knowledge Platform, where the topic of
sustainable development is put forth in
discussions.
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 is 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.
The United Kingdom’s United 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, (Mutton & Collins.)
Sustainability may be likened to stability; however,
there are a few key and subtle difference between
the two.
A sustainable environment is resilient enough to
withstand-made and natural challenges, and can
also recover from such if needs arise.
Stable environments are simply resistant to
change but somehow lack the element of
resiliency that sustainable developments possess
because it is far easier for stable environments to
become unstable in comparison to the possibility
of sustainable environments becoming
“unsustainable.”
Educating individuals about the importance
and benefits of having secure, balanced, and
enduring ecosystems will make the
implementation of environment-focused
policies and plans much easier, and in the
long term, will create a flourishing and stable
environment for all.
THANK YOU
VERY MUCH!
QUIZ
1. It is the development that meets the needs of
the present without compromising the ability
of future generations to meet their own needs.
2. WCED meaning
3-5. Give at least three sustainable development
goals.

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