WHAT IS SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT?
"Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present, without compromising the
ability of future generations to meet their own needs."
The concept of sustainable development can be interpreted in many different ways, but at its core is an
approach to development that looks to balance different, and often competing, needs against an awareness of
the environmental, social and economic limitations we face as a society.While the modern concept of
sustainable development is derived mostly from the 1987 Brundtland Report, it is also rooted in earlier
ideas about sustainable forest management and 20th-century environmental concerns.
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AT GLOBAL LEVEL
The annual Sustainable Development Goals Report provides an overview of the world’s implementation
efforts to date, highlighting areas of progress and areas where more action needs to be taken to ensure
no one is left behind.
Five years since the adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals, the 2020 Report notes that progress
had been made in some areas, such as improving maternal and child health, expanding access to
electricity and increasing women’s representation in government. Yet even these advances were offset
elsewhere by growing food insecurity, deterioration of the natural environment, and persistent and
pervasive inequalities.
Now, in only a short period of time, the COVID-19 pandemic has unleashed an unprecedented crisis,
causing further disruption to SDG progress, with the world’s poorest and most vulnerable affected the
most.
Using the latest data and estimates, this annual stocktaking report on progress across the 17 Goals
shows that it is the poorest and most vulnerable – including children, older persons, persons with
disabilities, migrants and refugees – who are being hit the hardest by the effects of the COVID-19
pandemic. Women are also bearing the heaviest brunt of the pandemic’s effects.
HOW IS GENDER EQALITY RELATED TO SUSTAINABLE DEVLOPMENT?
The issue of gender equality has been in the light for quite a lot of time now, but still the dominance
of men over women is persistent in many parts of the nation. This is mainly due to their mindset and
forces us to question their upbringing. To eradicate this issue , we need to target the youth of these
areas and educate them morally which would develop a mindset of equality amongst them. Also , we can
spread awareness about organisations like Bank Of America who promote women employs , which would
ultimately encourage them to provide proper education to girls as well and allow them to have a
professional life.Gender equality is one of the goals laid down by UNESCO for sustainable development ,
and it is indeed the hardest one to tackle because besides investing time and effort , we have to build
the personality of an entire generation in such a way that they do not feel a sense of dominance based
on gender and thereby make the world a better place for themselves as well as their co-existing human
beings.
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