What is Global Agenda?
What is Global Agenda?
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The problematic environmental reality in the world
The problematic environmental reality in the world
The world has been seriously deteriorating, mainly since the beginning of the so-called “industrial revolution” back in the 1830s; with immense emissions of Greenhouse Gases (GHG). During the period from 1830 to 2023, annual emissions went from 0.1 to 37 gigatons of CO2 per year, at the cost of environmental deterioration.
Likewise, the great population growth, going from 350 million in the year 1000 to 8 billion inhabitants in the year 2023, coupled with a deficient linear economy (production-consumption-waste) and lack of territorial planning and sanitation and recycling services, has caused high waste pollution on the planet, also impacting environmental quality and the misuse of natural resources.
These consequences are causing serious global warming on the planet, which is a huge burden, reflected in climate change, which, according to the United Nations, is humanity's "red code." The average annual temperature in the world in the period from 1850 to 2023 has gone from 0 to 1.1 degrees Celsius, causing unprecedented extreme weather events, generating disasters such as floods, cyclones, avalanches, hurricanes, etc., and these disasters are projected to become more intense as we approach the critical point of 1.5 degrees Celsius predicted by the United Nations.
One of the worrying indicators of global warming is the rise in the average sea level due to melting ice. This increase has doubled in the last decade, going from 2.27 mm per year between 1993 and 2002 to 4.62 mm per year between 2013 and 2022, which puts thousands of people at risk.
While the world is engaged, divided and competing over who is the most powerful, the planet continues to experience the great dangers of GHG emissions and Global Warming, which continues to grow and is uncertain, whether it can be controlled or whether we will follow the trend of the report indicating that humanity's perception of risk is reversing global progress in a "spiral of self-destruction."
What is the answer?: The Global Agenda
We must work together to protect the planet, not only thinking about our generation, but also about future generations, in accordance with the urgent call to action made by the United Nations (particularly since 1987 after the report "Our Common Future"); and it is a Global Agenda, starting from risk management and sustainable development, that is, from the care of human beings and the planet, putting at its service all knowledge, all technology, all strategy, all action, all initiative, and as the United Nations emphasizes, with the participation of all people, people like you.
The United Nations Global Agenda considers 5 key axes, including: Risk Management; Sustainable Development; Net Zero 2050; Territorial Planning and Governance.
The temporal evolution of said Global Agenda in greater detail can be found in the following article:
(*) Extract from the Article Published in Earth Institute Journal: José Pineda (2024); pp. 57-59.
Initiatives of the Global Agenda for Sustainable Development
Initiatives of the Global Agenda for Sustainable Development
United Nations
United Nations
In 1987, the United Nations approved its world report "Our Common Future", defining sustainable development as meeting "the needs of the present generation without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs."
Sustainable development has emerged as the guiding principle for the long-term global development of each country. Consisting of three pillars, sustainable development seeks to achieve, in a balanced way, economic development, social development and environmental protection.
Objectives to 2030
Objectives to 2030
The countries of the world are committed to prioritizing 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030.
These goals are interrelated and incorporate the global challenges that we face every day, such as poverty, inequality, climate, environmental degradation, prosperity, peace and justice, in short, a joint effort on the human rights that governments, the private sector, civil society and, as the United Nations suggests, mainly “people like you” should do their part.
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