Climate Change and Sustainable Development: facing present challenges and working towards goals and the future
- Autores: Veronica Reda
- Localización: Current Issues On Human Rights / coord. por Alexander Sungurov, Carlos R. Fernández Liesa, María del Carmen Barranco Avilés, María Cruz Llamazares Calzadilla, Óscar Pérez de la Fuente, 2020, ISBN 978-84-1324-552-2, págs. 263-276
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
As humanity faces climate change and global warming, the biggest threats of its history up until now, it is clear that a different approach to the development of different communities around the world is needed more than ever before. In fact, when referring to development, the wording has already changed. People talk about sustainable development which is “development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs” as stated in the report of the World Commission on Environment and Development, “Our Common Future”, originally published in 1987 by the United Nations.
The research and work behind this paper focus on the importance of the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), otherwise known as the Global Goals, and on the main reasons every nation must plan a future where all these goals are achieved by protecting and promoting human rights.
The United Nations’ 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development has at its core the following aims: eradicating poverty and ending hunger, protecting the planet, ensuring responsible and technological progress and freeing society from violence and fear, among others. After thorough consideration and through an analysis of the 2030 Agenda, I decided to stress the attention on: Goal 7. Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all; Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable; Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts.
