生物创新技术让全球环境更加美好

随着世界人口不断增长和经济高速发展,人类面临着越来越严峻的水资源和能源短缺问题,各国都在积极寻求和开发新的技术来迎接这一挑战,可持续发展逐渐成为各国政府的重要议题和发展战略.绿色技术已成为人类谋求可持续发展的重要途径之一.     

自然之道 永续发展——可口可乐中国系统可持续发展报告摘要2010-2011(环境部分)

世界正面临着一系列严峻的可持续发展挑战,无论水、能源、气候还是经济发展,在这些共同的挑战面前,个人、企业和社会的命运紧密地连接在一起。在这个着眼全球、着眼未来的时代,可口可乐将充分     

负责任的美丽创新者——欧莱雅——访欧莱雅(中国)有限公司总裁盖保罗

欧莱雅自1997年进入中国以来,其质量、定位和声誉都是诸多品牌无可比拟的。随着文明和时代的进步,人们的妆容意识也在不断变化,欧莱雅的"美",也许除了纯粹视觉观感上的赏心悦目之外,更有其内在优质、健康、安全、优雅等诸多层面的因素。同时,作为一个世界化妆品行业的领先者,欧莱雅近些年来在中国的发展历程中,也不断以环境和自然的视角,高度重视并推动其在中国市场的可持续发展。     

为酿造更美好的世界而努力——百威英博中国(2010)可持续发展报告(环境部分)

概况百威英博啤酒集团始终将企业公民的社会责任放在首位;为股东及利益相关团队创造客观价值;为所在地区创造就业机会,积极纳税,对社会发展形成显著并广泛的积极影响;采用最先进技术酿造啤酒,节约用水。控制排放,保护环境;通过在全球长     

货币化可持续发展指标的评价

可持续发展指标是评价和监测可持续发展状态和程度的基础工程 ,是实施可持续发展管理的依据。本文通过几种货币化可持续发展指标的内容介绍 ,分析了货币化可持续发展指标存在的优缺点     

“截获未来”是为了可持续发展——法国国际环保工业展(Pollutec)与世界环保产业

如何在发展经济的同时保持生态体系的平衡?如何在工业化、城镇化的过程中维护、乃至优化生活环境、提高生活天然质量?如何继承前人生态遗产并为子孙后代的进一步发展预留广阔空间?这些都是当代人必须认真思考的问题,并需要我们提出具体的解决方案.它山之石可以攻玉.中国的现代化进程就是中国对外开放度进一步提高、不断借鉴这个星球上现代化先行国家经验和教训的过程.在治理环境问题方面,我国也在不断地扩大与其他国家的交流,取长补短.交流是需要平台的,有影响的国际展览会就是促进交流的好平台,法国国际环保工业展览会(Pollutec)为其中之一.     

New emergy indices for sustainable development

The emergy indices for the evaluation of system‘ s sustainable development ability were studied. Results indicated that the emergy indices are simplified and merged, and a new emergy index for sustainable development(EISD) is deduced. Employing EISD, two cases areconducted. The first one is to compare three different dike-pond agro-ecological engineering modes, which are: melon-melon-cabbage-four domestic fishes (mode I ), melon-melon-cabbage-pig-four domestic fishes (mode H ) and melon-melon-cabbage-pig-four domestic fishes combined with Siniperca chuatsi B. ( mode Ⅲ ).The result is that the EISD of mode I is 0.53. Mode Ⅱ‘ s EISD is 5.26 times of mode I ,and mode Ⅲ‘s EISD is 6.83 times of mode I The second one is to evaluate the development of Zhongshan City, Pearl Delta, during 1996 to 2000.The result indicated that the EISD of Zhongshan had appreciably declined from 1996 to 1998, and quickly improved from 1998 to 2000, partly because of its environment protection and product construction. Both of the two cases studies showed that EISD can assessment the sustainable development ability more roundly, with the consideration of environmental impact and social-economic effect at the same time.     

Reforming the CDM for sustainable development: lessons learned and policy futures

The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) has successfully demonstrated that market-based mechanisms can achieve some cost effective emissions reductions in developing countries. However the distribution of CDM projects has been extremely uneven across countries and regions, and a few technologies and sectors have dominated the early stages of CDM experience. This has caused some to question whether the CDM has fallen short of its potential in contributing to sustainable development. We review the broad patterns of CDM project approvals and evaluate 10 CDM projects according to their sustainability benefits. The difficulty of defining “sustainable development” and the process of defining criteria by individual non-Annex 1 governments has meant that sustainable development concerns have been marginalized in some countries. Given these observed limitations, we present possible CDM policy futures, focusing on the main proposals for a post-2012 climate regime. Five options for enhancing the sustainable development benefits in the CDM are discussed, including proactive approaches to favour eligibility of emission reduction projects which ensure such co-benefits.     

Interpreting sustainable development

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Systemic thinking in environmental management: support for sustainable development

Our society has been undergoing a transition process from a mechanicist to a systemic or ecological paradigm. Within the environmental context, this transition represents an issue of survival for man and for the biosphere itself, which is being constantly assaulted by man's productive activities and as a result of this has been suffering great physical changes.The currently adopted development model is highly consumerist and predatory. A systemic vision of the world and its application in the process of environmental management is essential to transcend our present day development model and to reach a fair and ecologically correct social model or, in other words, sustainable development (SD).     

University research for sustainable development: definition and characteristics explored

University research is pivotal for sustainable development, but to succeed, new ways of conducting research are needed. Only recently has the field of “sustainability and higher education” (SHE) started to deal with the issue. In this paper we define “university research for sustainable development” comprehensively as “all research conducted within the institutional context of a university that contributes to sustainable development”, and propose a set of twenty two preliminary characteristics of this concept. We provide foundational information in particular for various university stakeholders, and those of higher education in general, considering the (re)orientation of research towards sustainable development and offer a beginning of dialogue on the subject, within SHE.     

Education for sustainable development and the Young Masters Program

Education is the foundation for achieving sustainable development. The United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development declared from January 2005 to December 2014 demands a concerted effort to expand environmental education around the world. The Young Masters Program (YMP) is an international education course, which utilises the Internet to connect students, teachers, and tutors in different parts of the world. The YMP is designed for 15–18 year old students and for their teachers. It was developed by and continues to be coordinated by the International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics (IIIEE) at Lund University. The focus of the Young Masters Program is preventive environmental strategies in the context of sustainable development. More than 2300 students and teachers in 109 countries have participated in the Young Masters Program since 1998.     

Dynamic analysis and assessment for sustainable development

The assessment of sustainable development is crucial for constituting sustainable development strategies.Assessment methods that exist so far usually only use an indicator system for making sustainable judgement.These indicators rarely reflect dynamic characteristics.However,sustainable development is influenced by changes in the social-economic system and in the eco-environmental system at different times.Besides the spatial character,sustainable development has a temporal character that can not be neglected;therefore the research system should also be dynamic.This paper focuses on this dynamic trait,so that the assessment results obtained provide more information for judgements in decision-making processes.Firstly the dynamic characteristics of sustainable development are analyzed,which point to a track of sustainable development that is an upward undulating curve.According to the dynamic character and the development rules of a social,economic and ecological system,a flexible assessment approach that is based on tendency analysis,restrictive conditions and a feedback system is then proposed for sustainable development.