The Article is written By Ankit Chhaparia, Managing Director, Coftea
A safe, healthy and sustainable environment is essential to enjoy wide range of human rights, including life, health, food and water. Without a healthy environment, we can never fulfil our aims.
Sustainability develops the quality of our lives, safeguards our ecosystem and conserves natural assets for future generations. ‘Going green and sustainable’ takes the advantage of the benefits acquired from an environmental focus in the long-term. More than 90% of our food comes from terrestrial ecosystems, which provides energy, building materials,clothes, medicines, fresh and clean water and air.
To balance economic, environmental and social needs is the primary objective of sustainable development, permitting affluence for now and future generations. At the moment, various history of human cultures have known the need for coordinating the environment, society and economy. The ‘environmentally sustainable economic growth’ is an alternative expression for the prevalent thought of ‘Sustainable Development.’
Its objective is to balance or co-ordinate environment sustainability, economic sustainability and socio-political sustainability.
Sustainable development encounters the needs of the present without cooperating the aptitude of future generations to meet their own needs. The true agenda of sustainable development is to control the world’s resources, hence evolved as protecting it. Environmentally sustainable economic growth refers to economic development that meets the needs of all without leaving futuregenerations with few natural resources than what we enjoy presently.
The essence of this form of development is a steady relationship between human activities and the natural world. However, environmental managers keep facing one inconvenience till date – the aim of sustainable development is not completely formed and its fundamental concepts are still argued on. Sustainable development, like environmental management, is not easily defined.
Sustainable development consists of a long-term, combined approach. To achieve a healthy community, sustainable development encourages to enhance our resource base, by gradually changing the ways we develop and use technologies. The countries must be allowed to meet their basic needs. There is a definite need for a sustainable level of population, if
this is to be prepared in a sustainable manner.
The social progress and equality, environmental protection, conservation of natural resources and stable economic growth are the four objectives of sustainable development. This is achievable only by reducing pollution, poverty and unemployment.
To protect human and environmental health, global ecological threats, like climate change and poor air quality need to be reduced. The use of non-renewable resources like fossil fuels should not be ceased abruptly.
Instead it is to be used efficiently and development of the substitutes is to be encouraged, help phase them out gradually.
Sustainability is to maintain ecological processes over long periods of time as far as ecosystem is concerned. In the face of external stress, the ability of ecosystem is to maintain its structure and function.
To focus on peace and security, the environment, the worst risks of all, governance, the knowledge base, children and learning are the precise necessities. The needs of future generations may provide the focus of a new global ethic that improves overall progress of mankind for a positive future.
We at Coftea are striving continuously to adopt practises of sustainability with an earnest hope of providing security to the environment.
