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Sylwia Mrozowska, PhD, DSc, Prof of the UG presented the REGIONS2030 report for Pomorskie Voivodeship at the UMWP conference
The conference of the Marshal's Office of the Pomorskie [...]
REGIONS 2030: CZRUG involved in the preparation and implementation of the pilot project
We are happy to announce that the Centre for [...]
Zero Emissions! – New University of Gdańsk’s project supported by the Voivodship Fund for Environmental Protection and Water Management
Workshops, lectures and educational events for, among others, pupils [...]
Elżbieta Czapka, PhD, with NAWA 2023 Intervention Grant
Elżbieta Czapka, PhD, from the UG Centre for Sustainable Development, [...]
Graduation ceremony for the first edition of the postgraduate course “Education for Sustainable Development: Offshore wind energy”
The first edition of the postgraduate course 'Education for Sustainable [...]
Urban design and urban challenges – the TOWNSHIP summer school has come to an end
Students from Iceland, France, Germany, Ukraine and Kazakhstan came [...]
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ABOUT SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
Sustainability – fixing the world for everyone, not just people. Interview with Professor Thomas Aiello of Valdosta State University
WHAT IS SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT?
Sustainable development is a development concept that responds to technological progress, the ecological crisis and green ideas of the second half of the 1960s. Its most well-known definition was formulated by the United Nations World Commission for Environment and Development in 1987. According to this, sustainable development is “development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs”. As a goal of global politics, the concept of sustainable development was adopted by almost all countries of the world during the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992 in the form of Agenda 21. In 2015, UN member states unanimously adopted the currently binding and implemented resolution Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, which was defined as the World Development Strategy until 2030. It contains 17 Sustainable Development Goals to which 169 tasks are assigned. They include measures to reduce poverty, ensure access to education, food and clean water, equal opportunities, to promote human rights, peace and stability in the world, protect the natural environment and mitigate climate change, as well as enable access to sustainable energy sources.
