Sentences with phrase «unsustainable consumption»

It was recognised that the approach to development had been piecemeal, with ongoing threats to the environment through unsustainable consumption and production.

Instead, a range of mitigation efforts are required, including changes in lifestyle and unsustainable consumption patterns in the rich, developed countries.

The current economic system against which the «occupation» protest across the industrialised world are directed, both creates and depends on unsustainable consumption, and has driven income and asset inequality within and between nations.

A range of mitigation and adaptation efforts are required, including changes in lifestyle and unsustainable consumption patterns mainly in the rich, developed countries that have accumulated an ecological debt to poor communities in the global South.

The Carbon Neutral Myth Offset Indulgences for your Climate Sins, launched today by Carbon Trade Watch, a project of the Amsterdam - based Transnational Institute, draws on extensive research and case studies to argue that: * Offset companies breed complacency by selling peace of mind to consumers, offering up a form of greenwash that distracts from the serious task of tackling unsustainable consumption patterns and business practices;

One Earth Initiative is a non-profit research and advocacy group that seeks to transform unsustainable consumption and production patterns locally, nationally and internationally.

POPULATION AND SUSTAINABILITY Protect species and habitats by raising awareness about runaway human population growth and unsustainable consumption.

Countries with greater capability must take ambitious actions to address unsustainable consumption and resource use, actions which must inevitably include life - style changes.

And a proposed goal to «ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns» needs to address expressly the role that unsustainable consumption and production in richer societies plays in driving climate change.

It highlights that without careful planning, infrastructure can lock in countries into unsustainable consumption and production patterns.

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 surface of Earth.

-- Raise public awareness about the impacts of unsustainable consumption and shift away from the prevailing culture of consumerism to sustainability.

Robert, if my wishes were granted and my magical thinking made real, the world in which we reside would of necessity be different from the way it is, so as to be made capable of supporting our unsustainable consumption, production and propagation activities, the colossal scale of which is threatening to engulf the Earth in these early years of Century XXI.

Climate change resulting largely from unsustainable consumption by about 15 % of the world's population has become a dominant moral and ethical issue for society.

Unsustainable consumption and production reverses development gains in the global North and the global South: Women and men of industrialized nations have a responsibility to educate themselves, examine their worldviews, commit to action, and lead by example.

So protecting the planet from environmental destruction and unsustainable consumption underpins all our policies, which have been carefully developed over many years.

Not exact matches

As savings were force up structurally, whether because of rising income inequality or a declining household share of GDP, the system responded in ways that were sustainable (increases in productive investment) and in ways that were unsustainable (rising inventory in China, increases in speculative investment in the US, China, and Europe, and increases in credit - financed consumption in the US and southern Europe).

What is often missing with tragic impact is the principle set out as Principle 8: «To achieve sustainable development and a higher quality of life for all people, states should reduce and eliminate unsustainable patterns of production and consumption and promote appropriate demographic policies

We know that our day - by - day participation in this affluent, consumption - oriented, society embodies an unsustainable lifestyle that is exploiting hundreds of millions of workers around the world.

It all became unsustainable for my life and I dropped it and we went back to our old consumption habits, except I kept using reusable bags and we started composting.

After enjoying decades of popularity as a staple of the all - American diet, the harsh realities behind unsustainable beef production and excessive consumption are finally coming to light.

DeSouza said this rate of growth will be unsustainable if the level of consumption in developing countries reaches that of the industrialized world.

That irrigation now looks unsustainable: «The problem is that groundwater consumption was not capped at a sustainable level and now it will be difficult to curb demand,» Rodell notes.

As with climate change, the only pragmatic option is to concentrate efforts to fulfil people's desires and demands in a way that protects natural ecosystems as far as possible — not to try to challenge patterns of consumption per se by insisting that they are unsustainable, even if this appears to be the case in the short term.

But it's increasingly clear that global meat consumption is causing huge environmental problems, and today's livestock industry may be unsustainable.

Similar to the effects posited for human coastal exploitation, our results suggest that tool - assisted shellfish consumption by a densely populated non-human primate species might lead to unsustainable foraging.

Here, we refer to predominantly unregulated (and often illegal and unsustainable) harvesting of wildlife for human consumption as «bushmeat hunting» or «wild meat» hunting.

Unsustainable hunting for consumption and trade of wild meat (also known as bushmeat) by humans represents a significant extinction threat to wild terrestrial mammal populations, perhaps most notably in parts of Asia, Africa and South America [4 — 6].

The thirsty new varieties and crops that replaced the indigenous farming systems brought the country's groundwater consumption to dangerous and totally unsustainable heights.

Surviving Progress (Unrated) De-evolution documentary suggesting that supposed technological advances such as materialism and mass consumption might merely be an unsustainable trap sealing the fate of the polluted planet and clueless humanity.

Life has spent about 3.8 billion years on Earth, and its ecosystems are organized through strategies based on constant trial and error, hence we can learn many lessons for the building of a new human evolutionary phase capable of ending poverty, hunger, inequality between countries, gender inequality, irresponsible consumption, unsustainable industrialization, pollution of the seas and oceans, and so on.

This is the story that sees prevailing structural inequalities, particularly between countries, as having led to increasingly unsustainable patterns of consumption and production.

Regardless of the human - forced calamities — the ones derived from unchecked consumption, unbridled dissipation of resources bound up in the process of economic globalization, and skyrocketing global human numbers — that might befall coming generations, we live on in a patently unsustainable fantasy world (we call it reality) of idle comforts, effortless ease, conspicuous consumption, secret handshakes, exclusive clubs, exotic hideaways and thousands of private jets, having abandoned our regard for the less fortunate among us, for the maintenance of life as we know it, and for the preservation of the integrity of Earth.

Put another way, not seeing that the colossal size of the multi-trillion dollar global economy is soon to become unsustainable in the relatively small, bounded world we inhabit is a misperception; not seeing that increasing per - capita consumption of Earth's limited resources by six billion, soon to be nine billion, people can not go on much longer, much less forever, is a mistaken impression; and not seeing that absolute global human population numbers, just like the population numbers of other species, can not increase endlessly, relative to a limited resource base, is a misconception, I suppose.

If it turns out that the conspicuous consumption and relentless hoarding of the rich, the famous and the powerful are evidence of unsustainable lifestyles, what is the human community to do differently?

With new leadership will surely come novel ideas, better judgements, more reality - oriented decision - making and sustainable action plans that will replace the soon to become patently unsustainable business - as - usual production, unrestrained consumption and unregulated propagation activities of the human species.

He noted that the construction of new railroads by the British resulted in the consumption of an unsustainable amount of timber.

«Unsustainable patterns of production, consumption, and population growth are challenging the resilience....

The CEAP also recognizes that «inefficient fossil fuel subsidies (IFFS) that encourage wasteful consumption distort energy markets, impede investment in clean energy sources, place a strain on public budgets, and incentivise unsustainable infrastructure investments».»

This analytical report presents past trends in domestic energy policy in the Arab region and the capacity of today's policies and institutions to reverse current unsustainable production and consumption patterns, and meet development and energy security needs.

«To achieve sustainable development and a higher quality of life for all people, States should reduce and eliminate unsustainable patterns of production and consumption and promote appropriate policies, including population - related policies, in order to meet the need of current generations without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.»

In addition, we run the risk of allowing industrialized countries not to reduce their fossil - fuel emissions drastically and to maintain an unsustainable production and consumption model.

It is the triumph of domestic - based production and consumption over unsustainable globalization.

The current development model, based on extractive industry, endless growth, and unlimited consumption, is unsustainable, even when it is tweaked to a gentler version and it attempts to eradicate poverty.

Unsustainable energy use and resource consumption are prompting these pioneers to reexamine how we design and build our homes and workplaces.

Satish Kumar describes how present levels of consumption in the West are simply unsustainable.

Advertising pieces created by the collective challenge issues such as pollution, transportation, global warming, excessive consumption, waste disposal in cities, and anything that is unsustainable in the current

Advertising pieces created by the collective challenge issues such as pollution, transportation, global warming, excessive consumption, waste disposal in cities, and anything that is unsustainable in the current status quo.

These figures are based on rates of consumption that many think are already unsustainable.

«The basic truth is that our system of energy production and consumption is wholly unsustainable, and dramatic changes are needed or we risk a systemic collapse.