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What is sustainable development?
In year one of the present era, 300 million human beings lived on the planet. That figure had climbed to 1.5 billion by 1900 and 6 billion in 2000. Global population is growing at a brisk pace: there will be more than nine billion of us by 2050.
Our impact on the ecosystem is depleting the Earth’s resources and damaging the environment:
- gas emissions are increasing the greenhouse effect and widening climate differences between regions;
- inequality is rising between North and South and within individual countries, creating breeding grounds for violence;
- massive deforestation and lack of respect for ecosystems are leading to the extinction of many plant and animal species.
To successfully live together on a planet with limited resources and sustainable development on Earth, we must immediately start including social harmony and respect for the environment in our economic development policy.
Groupe SEB is joining forces with various sustainable development players (governments, local communities, non-governmental organisations, business, rating agencies and private individuals) to establish a new approach to progress and help create a better world. |
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