Environmental Sustainability
Environmental sustainability is awarded with environmental resources that will be protected and managed for future generations.It includes decisions and actions that help to protect the natural world.
Currently environmental sustainability is facing attention from the media and different government departments.
Environmental sustainability is concerned with matters such as
Long term health of ecosystem.
- It helps to protect the long-term productivity and health of resources to receive future economic and social needs.
- Curing environment resources as if they have intrinsic rights and value
- We must protect rain forests because they deserve to be protected instead of using them for our financial gain.
- Inter-generational decision making
- At the time of taking economic decisions we must focus on implications for future generations.
- Avoid excessive pollution
- We must avoid excessive pollution because it can cause damage to health and the earth’s atmosphere.
Role of United Nations curbing Environmental Problems
Environmental protection has become significant for the United Nations. More than 200 international environmental conventions now exist and bodies such as the :- UN Environment programme, the global environmental facility are playing significant roles in environmental protection.
- The UN is tackling global problems like- ozone layer depletion, loss of forests and species, and air and water pollution.
- Unless these problems are considered, markets and economies will not be sustainable in the long term.
- Because environmental losses are depleted over the natural resources on which growth and human survival depend.
- UNEPs mission is “for providing leadership and encouraging partnership in caring for the environment by inspiring, informing, and enabling nations and peoples for improving their quality of life without compromising that of future generations.”
UNEP main activities are regarded to-
- Climate change
- Disaster and conflicts
- Ecosystem management
- Environmental governance
Some more tips to protect the environment
- Turn off the lights you do not require and switch off the electrical household appliances when you are not using them.
- Buy products with no more extra packaging.
- Don’t wash the dishes before putting them in the dish water.
- Put down carpets to keep the house warm.
- Don’t put chemicals in our waterways.
- Plant more and more trees.