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Home Systemic sustainability: the ultimate frontier Yet black is greener than green War: The elephant in the sustainability room A convenient tale PDCs to advance reductions beyond NDCs COP21: Historic, historical or hysterical? COP20: CBDR or ECBDR? Doha: Gateway or Giveaway? An epic battle in the wrong war What it takes to be sustainable Making the Copenhagen Accord equitable Post-2012 climate regime: equitable, effective, sufficient? An equitable and effective climate regime Are global citizens equal before the Climate Convention? Decarbonising with renewables? Extremely difficult Financial crisis and sustainable development |
Sustainable development... Really? We often talk about sustainable development, but have lost the genuine understanding of what it means and what it takes. The term "sustainable development" has worn out by indiscriminate use and loose interpretation. The original definition of "sustainable
development", coined by the WCED, refers to development that meets present
needs without compromising those of future generations. The recurrent economic crises and the increasing carbon concentration in the atmosphere are just two indicators of the rising gap, instead of convergence, between rhetoric and reality. There is in fact a wider global crisis: overconsumption of resources, be it money, air, water, forests, minerals, etc. Our lifestyle is simply unsustainable, at the expense of the global poor and future generations. By using common sense and simple arithmetic, this site is dedicated to raise awareness on how little progress, if any, the global villagers (we) are actually making towards a genuine sustainable development.
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