Sentences with phrase «sustainable human future»

The strongest argument against decoupling as a pathway towards a sustainable human future isn't that it's impossible, as Hickel claims, but that it isn't occurring quickly enough to prevent unacceptable environmental impacts.

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An economics for community will be one in which human beings support themselves in a sustainable and enjoyable way while allowing much of the natural world to remain natural both for the sake of future generations and for the sake of the other species with which we should share the planet.

In my opinion, it is only those who care for the natural world for its own sake and for the sake of future human inhabitants who can guide us toward patterns of action that will be truly sustainable.

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She hopes to pursue a higher degree in Food Science and Technology in the future so she can work towards mitigating problematic causes of climate change, poor human health, and animal cruelty by providing healthier and more sustainable plant - based food options.

The wineries we represent embrace sustainable eco and social practices, doing their part to help preserve lands for future generations while improving the human condition now.

In this research, the authors present extensive evidence of the need for a new paradigm of modeling that incorporates the feedbacks that the Earth System has on humans, and propose a framework for future modeling that would serve as a more realistic guide for policymaking and sustainable development.

Students at Sheffield have access to the latest innovations in animal and plant sciences — giving them an opportunity to deepen human understanding of organisms, ecosystems and the interdependencies of life to build a sustainable future.

To feed future humans on Mars a sustainable closed agricultural ecosystem is a necessity.

To feed the future humans living on Mars or the moon the project Food for Mars and Moon aims to set up a sustainable agricultural system.

«Humans can adapt their behaviour to a wide range of climatic and environmental conditions, so it is essential that we understand the degree to which human choices in the past, present and future are resilient and sustainable in the face of variable weather conditions, and when confronted with abrupt events of climate change.

Yet a group of researchers led by archaeologists and calling themselves historical ecologists have recently come together to determine what we need to know about past human - environmental relationships to build a more sustainable future.

They announced their own responsibility for undertaking actions, inviting and encourage similar actions and commitments by other rightsholders and stakeholders, communicating a vision for healthy communities, sustainable and equitable human well - being and its associated strategies, and coming together in the form of a global citizen's movement to shepherd the transition to a sustainable, equitable, and democratic future.

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In this sense, and with the adaptation of university curricula to the guidelines of the Bologna Declaration (1999), it is necessary to train future professionals socio, values and attitudes related to solidarity and social justice, seeking ways of action to achieve sustainable human development.

These areas are key to motivating multi-participation in future research, which ensures natural and human sustainable communities in different settings.

The future Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) should be concerned by multidimensional development of the intellectual, emotional, physical and spiritual aspects of human beings, in order to live in harmony and happiness, as part of the whole.

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The outcome statement of the Rio +20 Conference on Sustainable Development (2012) centred around ecological sustainability.2 If countries of the world are serious about the commitment made at Rio, then the MDGs need to evolve into a new framework; sustainability was not at their heart, and it is increasingly clear that without such an orientation, various «development» goals are impossible to meet for both the current and future generations.3 As the report of the UN System Task Team on the post-2015 development agenda says, «the proposed vision and framework for the post-2015 agenda must be fully aligned with that (Rio +20) outcome».4 Accordingly, the theme of sustainability should be running through all the post-2015 goals (as should the themes on equity and human rights), even as more specific environmental targets such as halting the erosion of biodiversity could be specified in one of the goals.

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«The natural pet food trend is directly mimicking the human trend, and the result is strong, sustainable growth for the foreseeable future.»

As the newest, and perhaps the final domain of human artistic expression, and as the democratizing force of human creativity, the responsible and sustainable development and exploitation of agency is critical to our collective future.

Disclosure Note I'm on the Interim Engagement Committee of Future Earth (a voluntary position), which is a new international hub for coordinating interdisciplinary research aimed at fostering sustainable human progress on this finite planet.

Likewise, the U.N. has shaped a common understanding of the future we aspire to: one built on the concepts of human development, sustainable development and the responsibility to protect, to name a few key elements.

The future of sustainable public transport could come through fueling buses with gas made from two of the things that we seem to have a lot of, human waste and food waste.

Expanding renewable energy resources, in my opinion, is far more sustainable in complex human and natural systems over both the current life cycles and the future potential.

Resilient communities, based on locally - generated solar and wind - generated electricity and local sustainable organic agriculture, are the way that human beings will live in the future — if we are to have a future.

And Warren quoted Cynthia Mitchell, an Associate Professor from the Institute for Sustainable Futures at the University of Technology in Sydney, in his post P is for Phosphorus (As Well As Human Urine):

Before we can find our way forward to a good enough future for our children in a sustainable world, I suppose we must find a way to organize and maintain SUSTAINABLE COMMUNICATION about the global challenges posed to humanity by the unbridled, skyrocketing growth of the human species and its soon to become patently unsustainable consumption / production activities now overspreading the surfacsustainable world, I suppose we must find a way to organize and maintain SUSTAINABLE COMMUNICATION about the global challenges posed to humanity by the unbridled, skyrocketing growth of the human species and its soon to become patently unsustainable consumption / production activities now overspreading the surfacSUSTAINABLE COMMUNICATION about the global challenges posed to humanity by the unbridled, skyrocketing growth of the human species and its soon to become patently unsustainable consumption / production activities now overspreading the surface of Earth.

WWF's mission is to stop the degradation of the planet's natural environment and to build a future in which humans live in harmony with nature, by conserving the world's biological diversity, ensuring that the use of renewable natural resources is sustainable, and promoting the reduction of pollution and wasteful consumption.

Scientists are learning to study (study of ecosystem collapse in a North American lake) these changes and pushing for action to protect ecosystems both as the home to some of the planet's most threatened species and to give human beings a sustainable future on the planet too.

However, we believe that human numbers are a major and long term driver of consumption and hence human impact and that therefore a reduction in human numbers can make a contribution to a sustainable future.

Often justified largely on the basis of junk science they have come up with such wonderful policy prescriptions as using only unreliable sources of energy because they are «sustainable,» keeping natural resources in the ground rather than using them to meet human needs, having government tell manufacturers what requirements their products must meet to use less energy rather than encouraging manufacturers to meet the needs of their customers, all in the name of «energy efficiency,» substituting government dictates for market solutions on any issue related to energy use, and teaching school children junk science that happens to meet «environmentalists» ideological beliefs in hopes of perpetuating these beliefs to future generations even though they do not conform to the scientific method, the basis of science.

WWF's mission is to stop the degradation of the earth's natural environment and to build a future in which humans live in harmony with nature, by conserving the world's biological diversity, ensuring that the use of renewable natural resources is sustainable, and promoting the reduction of pollution and wasteful consumption.

According to the authors, an improved understanding of the complex relationship between climate change and society is essential for modifying ecologically harmful human behaviors and institutional practices, creating just and effective environmental policies and developing a more sustainable future.

We are a network of South Africans calling for divestment from fossil fuels — and restorative reinvestment in sustainable energy — to stigmatise fossil fuel use, accelerate sustainable system change, help slow climate change, reduce the financial risks of fossil fuel investments, and so help secure our human rights and common future.

Recalling the concern reflected in the outcome document of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, entitled «The future we want», 1 that the health of oceans and marine biodiversity are negatively affected by marine pollution, including marine debris, especially plastic, persistent organic pollutants, heavy metals and nitrogen - based compounds, from numerous marine and land - based sources, and the commitment to take action to significantly reduce the incidence and impacts of such pollution on marine ecosystems, Noting the international action being taken to promote the sound management of chemicals throughout their life cycle and waste in ways that lead to the prevention and minimization of significant adverse effects on human health and the environment, Recalling the Manila Declaration on Furthering the Implementation of the Global Programme of Action for the Protection of the Marine Environment from Land - based Activities adopted by the Third Intergovernmental Review Meeting on the Implementation of the Global Programme of Action for the Protection of the Marine Environment from Land - based Activities, which highlighted the relevance of the Honolulu Strategy and the Honolulu Commitment and recommended the establishment of a global partnership on marine litter, Taking note of the decisions adopted by the eleventh Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity on addressing the impacts of marine debris on marine and coastal biodiversity, Recalling that the General Assembly declared 2014 the International Year of Small Island Developing States and that such States have identified waste management among their priorities for action, Noting with concern the serious impact which marine litter, including plastics stemming from land and sea - based sources, can have on the marine environment, marine ecosystem services, marine natural resources, fisheries, tourism and the economy, as well as the potential risks to human health; 1.