SUSTAINABLEDEVELOPMENT

WHAT IS SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

" S u s t a i n a b l e d e v e l o p m e n t is d e v e l o p m e n t that m e e t s
t h e n e e d s of t h e present, without c o m p r o m i s i n g t h e
ability of future g e n e r a t i o n s to m e e t their o w n n e e d s . ”

The c on c e p t of s u s t a i n a b l e d e v e l o p m e n t i s the totality of socio-

e c o n o m i c d e v e l o p m e n t f o r m s a n d m e t h o d s n o t on ly o n the s h o r t or
m e d i u m term, b u t a l s o o n the l o n g term. The b a s i s of m e t h o d s i s the
b a l a n c e b e t w e e n the so ci o - e c on o mi c s y s t e m s a n d t he e l e m e n t s of
the n at u r al capital. S u s t a i n a b l e d e v e l o p m e n t a s a c o n ce p t h a s
mate rialize d d u r i n g d e c a d e s , within the f r a m e w o r k of t h o r o u g h
international scientific d e b a t e s , a n d h a s a s s u m e d political pote ntial
t h r o u g h globalization.
 HISTORY OF SD.

Key works that highlighted thinking Sustainable Development included Rachel Carson's Silent
Spring (1962), Garret Hardin's Tragedy of the C o m m o n s (1968), the Blueprint for Survival by
the Ecologist magazine (1972) and the Club of Rome's Limits to Growth report (1972).

The complex matters of sustainable development acquired a global political dimension a s

they were debated at the summit-level Earth Summit on Environment and Sustainable
Development (Rio de Janeiro, 1992), the Special Session of the United Nations General
Assembly which adopted the Millennium Goals (2000) and the World Summit on Sustainable
Development held in Johannesburg (2002). A s a result, local and global action plans have
been developed.

The Johannes burg S u m m it deliv ered three key outcom es : a political declaration, the
Johannes burg Plan of Im plem entation, and a range of partnership Key
com m itm
initiativ esents
. included tho se on s us tainable cons um ption and production, water
sanitation, and energy. and
 KEY PRINCIPLE OF SUSTAINABLE
DEVELOPMENT
• The key principle of sustainable development underlying all others
is the integration of environmental, social, and economic concerns
into all aspects of decision making.
• In practice, sustainable development requires the integration of
economic, environmental, and social objectives across sectors,
territories, and generations. Therefore, sustainable development
requires the elimination of fragmentation; that is, environmental,
social, and economic concerns must be integrated throughout
decision making processes in order to m o v e towards development
that is truly sustainable.
 S D OBJECTIVES

Economic welfare, Social stability and Econom ic

Environmental protection. welfare
✓ E c o n o m i c welfare aims at generating a
maximum income flow through maintaining
the capital that has brought benefits;
✓ Stability of social a n d cultural s y s t e m s
ensures the human capital that is S u s ta in a b le
necessary for any form of development, Developme
nt
reducing destructive conflicts;
✓ Environmental protection – sustainable Environ m e Stability of social
development aims at preserving the biological ntal and cultural
and physical stability of natural systems. protection system
Fig. Sustainable
development
objectives
 MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS ( MDG S)

• M D G s were the eight international development goals for the year

2 0 1 5 that had been established following the Millennium
Summit (September 8-10, 2000) of the United Nations in 2 0 0 0
▪To er a di cate e x tr e m e p o v er ty •To i m p r o v e m a t e r n a l h ealth
and hunger •To c o m b a t H I V / A I D S , malaria, a n d
▪To a ch i ev e u n i ve r s a l o ther d i s e a s e s
primary education •To e n s u r e en vi r o n m e n ta l
▪To p r o m o t e g e n d e r equality s u s ta i n abi li ty
and empower women •To d e v e l o p a g l o b a l
▪To r ed u ce child mortality
par tn e rs h i p for
development
 M DGS

• According to Jeffery D S a c k s (2012,

The Lancet), the M D G s mark a
historic and effective method of
global mobilization to achieve a set
of important social priorities
worldwide.
• A s of 2015, progress towards the
goals w as uneven. S o m e countries
achieved m a n y goals, while others
were not on track to realize any.
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS
 FORMULATION OF S D G S

• On 1 9 July 2014, the UN General Assembly's Open Working Group on Sustainable

Development Goals (SDGs) forwarded a proposal for the S D G s to the Assembly that
contained 1 7 goals with 1 6 9 targets covering a broad range of sustainable
development issues included ending poverty and hunger, improving health and
education, making cities more sustainable, combating climate change, and protecting
oceans and forests..
• The title of the agenda is Transforming our world: the 2 0 3 0 Agenda for Sustainable
Development. The powerful me s sa g e that is circulated is “No one to be left behind”.

• The Official Agenda for Sustainable Development adopted on 2 5 September 2 0 1 5 has

9 2 paragraphs, with the main paragraph (51) outlining the 1 7 Sustainable
Development Goals and its associated 1 6 9 targets. This included the following goals:
 SDGS

1. Poverty - End poverty in all its forms everywhere Targets.

2. H u n g e r a n d Food Security - End hunger, achieve food security and improved
nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture Targets.
3. G o o d Health a n d Well-B eing - Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being
for all at all a g es Targets.
4. Education - Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote
lifelong learning opportunities for all Targets.
5. G e n d e r Equality a n d W o m e n ' s E m p o w e r m e n t - Achieve gender equality
and empower all women and girls Targets.
6. Water a n d Sanitation - Ensure availability and sustainable management of
water and sanitation for all Targets.
 SDGS

7. E n e r g y - Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and clean

energy for all Targets.
8. E c o n o m i c G r o w t h - Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable
economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all
Targets.
9. Infrastructure, Industrialization - Build resilient infrastructure, promote
inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation Targets.
10. Inequality - Reduce inequality within and a m o n g countries Targets.
11. Cities - Make cities and h um a n settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and
sustainable Targets.
12. S u s t a i n a b l e C o n s u m p t i o n a n d Pr o d u c ti o n - Ensure sustainable
consumption and production patterns Targets.
 SDGS

13. Climate C h a n g e - Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts
Targets.
14. O c e a n s - Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, s ea s and marine resources
for sustainable development Targets.
15. Biodiversity, Forests, D e f ore s t a t i on - Protect, restore and promote sustainable
use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably m a n a g e forests, combat desertification,
and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss Targets.
16. P e a c e a n d Justice - Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable
development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and
inclusive institutions at all levels Targets.
17. P a r t n e r s h i p s - Strengthen the m e a n s of implementation and revitalize the global
partnership for sustainable development Targets.
 S D G 1: N O P O V E R T Y
E N D POVERTY IN ALL ITS F O R M S
EVERYWHERE

• The Challenges of Global Poverty

• From Poverty to Prosperity: Understanding
Economic Development
• Improving Children’s Lives: Reducing Child
Poverty and Inequality Around the World
 S D G 2: N O H U N G E R
E ND HUNGER, ACHIEVE FOOD SECURITY
AND
• Feeding a Hungry Planet: Agriculture, Nutrition, A G RI M
I CPURLTU
O V ERDE
and Sustainability NUTRITION A N D PROMOTE SUSTAINABLE
• Sustainable Food Systems: A Mediterranean
Perspective
• Sustainable Food Security: Food Access
• Sustainable Food Security: Crop Production
• Sustainable Soil Management: Soil for Life
• Feeding the World
• Global Food Security: Addressing the
Challenge
• Systems Science and Obesity
 S D G 3: G O O D HEALTH A N D W E L L - B E I N G
E N S U R E HEALTHY L I V E S A N D P R O M O T E W E L L - B E I N G
F O R A L L AT A L L A G E S
• Global Public Health
• Health and Society
• An Introduction to Global Health
• Global Health Case Studies from a
Biosocial Perspective
• Childbirth: A Global Perspective
• Healthy Aging in 6 Steps
• Caring for Vulnerable Children
 S D G 4: Q U A L IT Y E D U C A T I O N
E N S U R E INCLUSIVE A N D EQUITABLE QUALITY EDUCATION
A N D P R O M O T E LIFELONG LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES
FOR
• The Best Start in Life: Early Childhood ALL
Development for Sustainable
Development
• Education for All: Disability, Diversity,
and Inclusion
• The Right to Education: Breaking
Down the Barriers
• Teaching for Change: An African
Philosophical Approach
 S D G 5: G E N D E R E Q U A L I T Y
ACHIEVE G E N D E R EQUALITY A N D E M P O W E R
ALL
•
W O M E N AND GIRLS
H um a n Rights, H um a n Wrongs: Challenging
Poverty, Vulnerability, and Social Exclusion
• International Women’s Health and H uma n
Rights
• Understanding Violence Against Women:
Myths and Realities
• Confronting Gender Based Violence: Global
Lessons for Healthcare Workers
• Gender-Based Violence in the Context of
Migration
 S D G 6: C L E A N W A T E R A N D S A N I T A T I O N
E N S U R E A VAI L ABI L IT Y A N D
SUSTAINABLE
M A N A G E M E N T OF WATER A N D
• Water in a Thirsty World
S A N I T A T I O N F O R AL L
• Sustainability of Social-Ecological Systems: the
Nexus between Water, Energy and Food
• International Water Law
• Water Supply and Sanitation Policy in Developing
Countries Part 1: Understanding Complex Problems
• Introduction to Drinking Water Treatment
• Introduction to the Treatment of Urban Sewage
• Water Resources Management and Policy
S D G 7: A F F O R D A B L E A N D C L E A N E N E R G Y
A S S U R E A C C E S S TO AFFORDABLE,
RELIABLE,
• Politics and Economics of International Energy
SUSTAINABLE A ND M O D E R N
E N E R G Y F O R AL L
• Global Energy and Climate Policy
• Our Energy Future
• Wind Resources for Renewable Energies
• Solar Energy
• Sustainable Energy
• Solar Energy Engineering Micro Masters
• Catalytic Conversions for Biobased Chemicals and
Products
• Energy Principles and Renewable Energy
 S D G 8: D E C E N T W O R K A N D E C O N O M I C G R O W T H
PROMOTE SUSTAINED, INCLUSIVE A N D SUSTAINABLE ECONOMIC
G R O W T H , F UL L A N D P R O D U C T I V E E M P L O Y M E N T A N D D E C E N T W O R K
• Macroeconomics for a Sustainable Development F O R A LL

• Global Trends for Business and Society

• Global History of Capitalism
• Forced and Precarious Labor in the Global Economy: Slavery
by Another N a m e ?
• Fair Wage Strategies in a Global Economy
• Economic Growth and Distributive Justice Part 1: The Role of
the State
• Economic Growth and Distributive Justice Part 2: Maximize
Social Wellbeing
 S D G 9: IN DU ST RY, I N N O V A T I O N , A N D I N F R A S T R U C T U R E
BUILD RESILIENT INFRASTRUCTURE, PROMOTE INCLUSIVE
A N D SUSTAINABLE INDUSTRIALIZATION A N D FOSTER
INNOVATION
• Becoming a Ch a n g e maker: Introduction to Social
Innovation
• Creativity, Innovation, and C h a n g e
• Greening the Economy: Lesso ns from Scandinavia
• How Green is that Product? An Introduction to Life
Cycle Environmental Assessment
• The Next Generation of Infrastructure
• Industrial Biotechnology
• Innovation and Design for Global Grand
Challenges
 S D G 10: R E D U C E D I N E Q U A L I T I E S
REDUCE INEQUALITY WITHIN A N D A M O N G
COUNTRIES

• Hu m a n Rights, H um a n Wrongs:
Challenging Poverty,
Vulnerability, and Social
Exclusion
• Improving Children’s Lives:
Reducing Child Poverty and
Inequality Around the
World
• Global Inequality
S D G 11: S U S T A I N A B L E C I T I E S A N D C O M M U N I T I E S
M A K E CITIES A N D H U M A N SETTLEMENTS
INCLUSIVE,
• Sustainable Cities S A F E , RESILIENT, A N D
SUSTAINABLE
• Cities and the Challenge of Sustainable Development
• Planetary Boundaries and Human Opportunities
• Cities Are Back in Town: Urban Sociology for a Globalizing Urban World
• Designing Cities
• Sustainable Urban Development: Discover Advanced Metropolitan
Solutions
• Rethink the City: New Approaches to Global and Local Urban
Challenges
• Sustainable Tourism: Society & Environmental Aspects
• Rethink the City: New Approaches to Global and Local Urban
Challenges
 S D G 12: R E S P O N S I B L E C O N S U M P T I O N A N D
PRODUCTION
ENSURE SUSTAINABLE CONSUMPTION A ND
PRODUCTION PATTERNS
• Natural Resources for Sustainable Development
• Planetary Boundaries and H um a n Opportunities
• Responsible Innovation
• Circular Economy: An introduction
• Sustainable Packaging in a Circular Economy
• Waste Management and Critical Raw Materials
• Engineering Des ign for a Circular Economy
• Global Resource Politics: the Past, Present and
Future of Oil, Ga s and Shale
 S D G 13: C L I M A T E A C T I O N
T AKE U R G E N T A C T I O N T O C O M B A T C L I M A T E
CHANGE
•
A N D ITS IMPACTS
Climate Change Science and Negotiations
• Planetary Boundaries and H uma n
Opportunities
• Climate Action: Solutions for a
Changing Planet
• Climate Change Mitigation in Developing
Countries
• Introduction to Water and Climate
• Act on Climate: Steps to Individual,
Community, and Political Action
• Building with Nature
• Global Warming Science
 S D G 14: LIFE B E L O W W A T E R
C O N S E R V E A N D SUSTAINABLY U S E THE OCEANS, SEAS,
A N D MARINE RESOURCES FOR SUSTAINABLE
DEVELOPMENT

• One Planet-One Ocean

• Planetary Boundaries and H u ma n
Opportunities
• Marine and Antarctic Science
• Contemporary Issues in Ocean
Governance
• Oceanography: a key to better
understand our world
• Exploring Our Oceans
• Tropical Coastal Ecosystems
 S D G 15: LIFE O N L A N D
PROTECT, R E S T O R E , A N D P R O M O T E S U S T A I N A B L E U S E O F
TERRESTRIAL ECOSYST EMS, SUSTAINABLY M A N A G E FORESTS,
C O M B A T D E S E R T I F I C A T I O N , A N D HALT A N D R E V E R S E L A N D
HALT BDI O
EGDR
I VAEDRASTI T
I OYNL A
ONS SD

• From the Ground Up: Managing and

Preserving our Terrestrial Ecosystems
• Ecosystem Services: a Method for
Sustainable Development
• Urban Water-Innovations for
Environmental
Sustainability
• Forests and Livelihoods in Developing
Countries
• Global Environmental Management
 S D G 16: P E A C E , JUSTICE, A N D S T R O N G I N S T I T U T I O N S
PROMOTE PEACEFUL A N D INCLUSIVE SOCIETIES FOR
S U S T A I N A B L E D E V E L O P M E N T , P R O V I D E A C C E S S T O JUSTICE F O R
A LL A N D B U I L D EFFE CTIVE, A C C O U N T A B L E , A N D I N C L U S I V E
I N S T I T U T I O N S AT A L L
LEVELS
• Environmental Security and
Sustaining Peace
• Laudato Si: O n Care for Our
C o m m o n Home
• Hum a n Rights, H u ma n Wrongs:
Challenging Poverty,
Vulnerability, and Social
Exclusion
 S D G 17: P A R T N E R S H I P F O R T H E G O A L S
STRENGTHEN THE M E A N S OF IMPLEMENTATION A N D
REVITALIZE THE GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP FOR SUSTAINABLE
DEVELOPMENT

• Foundations of Development
Policy
• The Changing Global Order
 RELEVANCE OF M D G S A N D S D G S IN
BANGLADESH
Bangladesh has shown remarkable progress in areas of reducing headcount poverty
and the poverty gap ratio, decreasing the number of underweight children under five
years of age, attaining gender parity in primary and secondary education, reducing
under-five mortality rates, increasing the net enrolment ratio at primary schools,
lowering infant mortality rates and the maternal mortality ratio, increasing the
proportion of one year-old children immunized against measles, improving immunization
coverage, reducing deaths from tuberculosis per 100,000 people and raising the
proportion of people using an improved drinking water source.

• Bangladesh has hit most of the UN Millennium Development Goals' (MDGs) targets ahead
of the 2 0 1 5 deadline ie.:
employment rate, adult literacy rate, poverty and extreme poverty reduction, social
safety nets
• All this goes to indicate that Bangladesh is comfortably poised to meet the S D G s as
well.
 IMPLEMENTATION CHALLENGES TO THE S D G S

• The interdependent mix of domestic and external mobilization of financial

resources, technology development and transfer, capacity- building, equitable
globalization and trade, regional integration, as well as, the creation of a
national enabling environment required to implement the new sustainable
development agenda, particularly in developing countries, like Bangladesh
would be crucial

• The implementation of the S D G s agenda will require States and other relevant
actors to adopt policies and mobilize resources to advance equitable, human
rights-based, sustainable development. In this context, a renewed and
strengthened global partnership for expediting the means of implementation to
address the social, economic and environmental dimensions in an integrated
manner and strengthening governance and accountability frameworks. In this
regard, capacity building for people and institutions would be required.
 CONCLUSION

The S D G s can benefit from both the successes and the shortfalls of the
M D G s . The successes are notable and the failures are the lessons.
Both M D G s and S D G s are collectively the global agenda, which guide
different states to act upon on priority development ag end a related to
the country itself and also with the international arena.
According to Dr. J. D. S a c k s (2012), the S D G s will therefore need the
unprecedented mobilization of global knowledge operating across m a n y
sectors and regions including Bangladesh.
Governments, international institutions, private business, academia,
and civil society will need to work together to identify the critical
pathways to success, in w a y s that combine technical expertise and
democratic representation