Jason Dang LIBR 105 Professor Callicott 27 February 2018 Sustainability In 2005, the World Summit on Social Development defined sustainability as the incorporation of economic, social and environmental factors, a sentiment echoed by the Environmental Protection Agency. Sustainable development creates conditions under which humans can coexist with nature in a relationship that fulfills the social, economic and environmental requirements of both future and present generations. The past decade has seen companies adopt development plans that synchronize durable profitability with environmental care and social responsibility. The Upper Valley Compost Company, a startup company started by Saturley-Hall merely six months ago is amongst the companies that focus on sustainable development. Hall’s company takes into account the triple bottom line (TBL) methodology of people-planet-profit optimization.
This report also known as Bruntland report (Drexhage, 2012). This report expressed concern to propose strategy for long term basis to protect the environment thus achieve the sustainable development goal. The definition of Sustainable Development (henceforth SD) is to encourage human to develop sustainable without sacrify of the future generation to meet their own needs (United Nations , 1987). According to 1987 Bruntland report and the United Nations Conference on environment and development in Rio, Brazil in 1992, the objectives has been focused and discussed to promote the economic growth for the develop countries with the consideration environment protection to achieve the sustainable development goal (United Nations, 1992). This has made a serious alerts for the companies to integrate the ecology issues into their business development program.
Our subject is about the relationship between marketing, sustainability and the Olympics. Marketing has an important place in every organisation, whatever the size of the organisation, it defines the market and the way to act in this market. Sustainability is also an important part of most of the organisations, it is considered as a duty regarding the society and the planet to act with respect to a long term plan. As some of the biggest events of the world, the Olympic Games have to meet this goal of sustainability using the marketing strategies and tools to make it right and make it work. This report explains how marketing make the Olympics Games sustainable.
{www.un.org} Key charter of UN is to help tackle issues like climate change, global health, peace and security, women’s empowerment, poverty, eradication, energy access and trade relations between countries. The Charter of the United Nations was signed on twenty sixth June
Several decades later there was additional support for monetization in form of Natural Capital Accounting. It was namely discussed in the renowned Brundtland Report in 1987 and the 1992 Rio Summit. During the summit is was concluded that there is a necessity to develop quantitative information regarding not only financial but also environmental and social activities. These efforts led to the adoption an official Natural Capital Declaration in June 2012 at the Rio+20 conference, led by the World Bank (WAVES,
I vehemently state that there should be programmes for diplomats and trade ministers to strengthen their negotiating skills. This is to ensure collaboration between countries and successful negotiations. B. Regional integration Regional integration is important for trade growth for the continent. In trade, the major objective of the African Union is to “accelerate the political and socio-economic integration of the continent.
For instance; on the issue of anthropogenic factors, pollution in the ocean emanating from improperly disposed chemical waste and other waste disposals, use of destructive gear (banned gear), increases in fishing pressure, etc. have had colossal impacts on the resources and the ecosystems,
FEASIBILITY STUDIES The studies that are expected to be conducted as follow: • Soil investigation • Environment consideration • Topographic and seismic investigation • Structural analysis • Efficiency of green features • Estimation of costs VI. REFERENCE/S: WIKI ORG. (2015) Balete, Batangas. [Online] Available from: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balete_Batangas. [Accessed: 25th September 2015].
Agenda 21 is introduced as one of the three non-binding agreements in Rio Earth Summit (1992) which was United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro Brazil. It was the first time that governments of 172 countries officially adopted Sustainable Development as the development paradigm. Agenda 21 was an authoritative set of ideas on how to promote sustainable development in practice. (Baker, 2006) There are four main areas for action plan of sustainable development covered in Agenda 21. It comprises the promotion of social & economic development, conservation and resource management for development, strengthening role of major groups and means of implementation.
The United Nations adopted some set of goals at the general assembly on 25th September 2015. These goals known as Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) consist of 17 goals and 169 targets available at https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/sdgs is a transformation from the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The objective of this agenda is to make the world a better place by stimulating development actions over the next 15 years in areas of critical importance. Igbinovia (2016) reported that “session 103 of the 2015 International Federation Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) conference was on the contribution and mission of libraries and information services or sustainable development”. Libraries and librarians have thus been doing