Sustainable Development
What is Meant by Sustainable Development?
Sustainable development is a development that seeks to produce sustainable economic growth. It meets the own needs of people today without damaging the natural system and regenerative capacity of nature. Sustainable development protects the environment and uses resources in a way that allows them to renew and exist in the future. This ensures future generations the ability also meet their needs and live in similar conditions as current ones. Moreover, the task of each generation is to solve themselves appeared problems, not pass them on to future generations. In ideal, each generation needs to strive to not cause problems.
The strategy is developed in the direction of responsible development, environmentally friendly production, economical consumption of natural resources, social cohesion, global responsibility, increasing the use of renewables, and reducing emissions of greenhouse gases. Sustainable development supposes using that amount of resources that can be restored in the short term. Tracking and handling climate changes, preserving the environment, oceans, and forests, and cleaning air, water, and soil are implemented.
What is the Importance of Sustainable Development?
Global carbon emissions, resources and energy consumption increased extremely in the last centuries. Currently, many countries cooperate on questions of sustainable development to improve human lives and protect the environment. Because all countries are worried about the side effects of technological progress on nature, negative environmental impacts, climate change, and global warming. The overuse and depletion of resources, loss of biodiversity, collapse of ecosystems, irreversible consequences for the environment, and ecological problems through rapid population growth are also at the top of global problems. For these reasons, sustainability is the only right path to a sustainable healthy life, protected environment, and steady growth of the economy.
Example 1. Capacities for Sustainable Development
A lot of meetings, conferences, and global summits are conducted to develop efficient methods to solve these questions, the multilateral agreements are signed. At the Millennium Summit in September 2000, the global partnership helped to elaborate eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) dedicated to reducing extreme poverty by 2015. In 2013, a 30-member Open Working Group was set up to develop the list of SDGs. 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were developed and approved for implementation by United Nations Member States at the UN Sustainable Development Summit in September 2015. These goals need to be realized by 2030. The main goal of the SDGs is to ensure development and prosperity for people and the planet now and in the future. Ensuring a healthy environment and clean air, peace, economic growth, ending poverty, improving health and education, and reducing inequality are among the main sustainable development goals.
What are Examples of Sustainable Development?
Sustainable development relates to various intertwined directions of life – environmental, social, cultural, and economic. The sustainability paradigm is a long-term goal. It is based on the confidence that all these aspects are balanced to improve the quality of life for today's people and future generations. Sustainable development strives to ensure a healthy environment, clear air and water, healthy food, save resources, forestry, and energy, maintain sustainable agriculture, sustainable production and consumption.
Example 2. Sustainable Development Solution in ConceptDraw STORE
ConceptDraw DIAGRAM software extended with the Sustainable Development solution is incredibly helpful for simple and fast creating the sustainability-related infographics, diagrams, and drawings. A large collection of predesigned samples and vector stencil libraries is included in the Sustainable Development solution.
All tools of the Sustainable Development solution are available from the ConceptDraw STORE. The libraries offer the clipart from various branches of sustainable development, design elements — economic sustainability, political sustainability, cultural sustainability, ecological sustainability, and social sustainability. Besides, all elements of the solution libraries are vector and you can resize them without loss of quality.
Example 3. Transport Infrastructure Сomparison Sample in ConceptDraw DIAGRAM for Microsoft Windows
The Sustainable Development samples you see on this page were created in ConceptDraw DIAGRAM software using the management tools of the Sustainable Development Solution. These examples successfully demonstrate solution's capabilities and the professional results you can achieve using it. An experienced user spent 10-20 minutes creating each of these samples.
Use management tools of the Sustainable Development solution to design your own Sustainable Development Infographics quick, easy and effective.
All source documents are vector graphic documents. They are available for reviewing, modifying, or converting to a variety of formats (PDF file, MS PowerPoint, MS Visio, and many other graphic formats) from the ConceptDraw STORE. The Sustainable Development Solution is available for ConceptDraw DIAGRAM users.