Sustainable Development - Science topic

Which sustainable development goal supported role of media in disaster management?

Remark_1: science is not only about publishing papers dealing with problems that are acceptable (well seeing) by the "normal" academic canon or, on the other hand, with problems that are, relatively speaking, much easier to solve or, at least, it is not highly complicated to try to "solve".

Remark_2: scientists from the developing world, regardless the discipline, might start thinking farther on what does the "hard" Sustainable Development (SD) version mean for their countries, and how bad is to replicate (to support) discourses that comes from communities (whether interested stakeholders, nations, international organizations, think-tanks...) that want to keep the high rates of economic growth regardless any physical, ecological, and climate-based constraints. Much to my regret, there is a concerning amount of advocates to such an approach (outer-space mining) in Latin America as a whole... We need to rethink what development is all about and what will be the fate of the Latin American nations under such sustained trend of a lack of governance of the outer space domain.

- Is it really necessary to go far beyond Earth atmosphere to carry out very risky outer-space mining activities...?

- Why specific sectors are pushing for investing in the outer space mining when it is highly visible and measurable (at naked eye) the amount of thrash that it is piling up and surrounding all cities in the world...?

- What about the amount of metal, plastic and other "strategic" material (including wood/timber) that should be recycled at great scale in all continents and regions in the planet...?

- What education policies should transfer the current effort aimed at funding already useless careers and titles to empower the next generation of skilled workers, technicians, and experts in recycling al at levels of the society....? What impede that transformations in the labor force worldwide...?

- To the fans and advocates of the circular economy scheme: (1) have you already thought about the huge amount of energy that would be required for such a large-scale recycling (The thermodynamics laws always will matter despite economics could claim)...? (2) Shouldn't be a maximum number of human population that make circular economy feasible...? (Human population trends) are not in the equations of the hard SD version). (3) Do we (humans) have time for a step-by-step circular economy development (more action and less "floppy" business papers)...?

As I have pointed out in all my questions, the 2030 SDGs agenda is already compromised and no major advancement is being achieved regarding the speeding up overlapping and non-linear climate and Earth's ecology breakdowns, therefore, why humanity should embark in another wishful-thinking reckless economic push within the "New Space Economy"...?

As we keep trying to keep humans outside the equations..., all what be published regarding sustainability (science), governance, and the so-called cutting-edge research on Climate Policies and Action will be just a futile act of absolute incompleteness and despair.

Thus, I call scholars from all the disciplines to carry out their major effort in adding the humans into their equations (schemes, models) and start writing as we are the root of the current problems , but also the solutions to those human-sparked messes... A major shift must be empowered in the way science is made... Science has being under crisis for twenty years or so... We all know by 2000 the problem will be greater and will advance faster than our potential response as a species... All has been an unprecedented large-scale denial...

Willing to interact to write more realistic (with policy implications) papers and for teaming (network-building) in searching for implementing sound "cutting-edge" research proposals whenever funds will be available.

Regards,

Hernan L. Villagran

The sustainable development discourse released by the Brundtland Commission in 1987 ended in 2012 RIO +20 with the agreement to go green markets, green growth and green economies, WHICH MEANS that the sustainable development model that won the competition was the win-win eco-economic model.

Yet since then, people do not longer talk about the circular green economy or the still broken circular dwarf green economy as ways of fixing or patching respectively the environmental pollution problem we are supposed to be trying to address.

Researchers and institutions as seen in research shared in Researchgate have decided to use a general term that means nothing and everything at the same time, THE CIRCULAR ECONOMY without indicating what they are trying to fix as they should know what the root cause of the traditional market broken circularity is or at least saying they are still talking about saving the traditional economy that was left behind in 2012 Rio +20, the one the Brundtland commission said in 1987 we should go beyond from as it had not worked.

Keep in mind, there is fully broken circularity, there is partially broken circularity, and there is true circularity, but this is found within the green market paradigm shift knowledge gap that was created when shifting from perfect traditional market thinking to perfect green market thinking.

And this raises the question, Can you go from fully broken circularity to unbroken circularity in any market, including in the case of perfect traditional market and the environmental problem, without internalizing the externality costs associated with production?. What do you think?

If you think Yes, then why you think so?

If the answer is NO, are then the CIRCULAR ECONOMY thoughts being advance more often now in and outside Researchgate as a good sustainable development or sustainability or climate change tool based on alternative academic facts?

What do you think?

How does Industry 5.0 contribute to the concept of sustainable development?

Guterres said that only 15% of the sustainable development goals globally have been implemented and 85% have not been implemented. This is why there are obstacles.

When addressing the socio-environmental challenges associated with the traditional economy mainstream researchers and organizations start from the point of view "Our current economy is linear” “ The economy of the future is circular”, taking the position that linearity is the root cause of sustainability problems, see for example: https://www.metabolic.nl/what-we-do/circular-economy/?gad=1&gclid=CjwKCAjwpJWoBhA8EiwAHZFzfoJkA5YMY6R6Crk_hIVmoam5SZZ8zjojNJOsh6PgMWygbt0t8LV8TRoCupMQAvD_BwE

They seem to be doing this without asking themselves the question, why is the current economy linear? Since when it has been linear? Could not be that the root cause of that linearity is the root cause of sustainability problems? If this was the case, then addressing linearity by going circular a la traditional market still leaves the root cause of the problem untouched and active.

And this raises the question: Is economy linearity the root cause of social, economic, and environmental challenges? If yes, why?. If not, why not?

What do you think?

Generating food for thoughts:

It seems that the capitalist world does not realize yet that green marxism is a bigger threat than red marxism was to capitalism as usual as this time it is coming from within.

And avoiding going green markets since 2012 has played well, and it will continue to increasingly play well for the green marxism claim as pretending to do something when the situation is getting worse may backfire, which raises the question: What comes next after the fall of dwarf green markets, green marxism or green markets?

What do you think?

August 25th, 2023

Those methodologies, we have to assume that are not the better ones, are being used to claim humans are 'making progresses' with regards the 2030 SDGs agenda.

As the ongoing human-sparked climate crisis and the huge Earth's ecology breakdowns seem unstoppable, scientists must ask what are the methodologies that are being used by other scientists to support those claims.

A generalized optimism keep asking time we (humans) do not have to fulfill those goals.

The 21st century science will be all about try to avoid a major planetary disruption sparked by just the biology-based dominant species.

We need metrics to avoid groundless discourses. That task will imply to create a system of systems regarding Earth observation in all scales.

It is relevant to say that the problem is not suitable for a technological perspective only... The problems we are facing are behavioral in nature.

Hernan L. Villagran

What are various indicators that can be used in South Africa to measure Sustainable development well

Food is an essential aspect of our lives on earth. The production, consumption, and disposal of food and food waste has significant health, cultural, economic, and ecological impacts (Antasouras, Vasios et al. 2023) . A large portion of waste comes from the healthcare industry. According to the United Nations Environmental Programme, hospitals create 71% of the industry's total waste, up to 15% of which is food waste (2022). Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 12 aims to ensure “sustainable consumption and production patterns” and specifically target 12.5 aims to “reduce waste generation through prevention, reduction, recycling and re-use”.

Should India go for renewable energy sources and role of renewable energy in sustainable development?

Explain the relationship between green economy and sustainable development

I think yes, what do you think?

Can renewable sources provide a solution to climate change and what are the sustainable development goals in India for energy?

Has it become necessary to adopt the foundations of sustainable development to ensure a better future for the younger generations, especially in light of the environmental, political and social conditions that have swept our world?

What is the importance of renewable and non-renewable resources in the ecosystem and importance of renewable natural resources to sustainable development?

August 28th, 2023.

The institutional control and governance concerning the human-boosted pressure on the outer space environment is deteriorating very fast. Amid a speeding-up and overlapping climate and Earth's ecology breakdowns it is being hard to understand and to find a rational explanation to the deployment of the 'New Space Economy' while humans are discarding any collective effort in focusing all the space-related agencies and capabilities to give priority to Earth observation and damage control (as much as possible) on the Earth's Life Support Systems (ELSSs).

The attached letter is a public position paper that was sent to the acting Head of UNOOSA (United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs) last year.

As the entire world adopted the 'weak' definition of Sustainable Development (SD) humans can not get surprised to realize the entire 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) agenda is being compromised.

The huge lack of rationality in the outer space domain is a signal that tells us the same situation is taking place in all of the remaining 'global commons' and the associated institutional architecture (treaties).

Could the space affairs researchers here in ResearchGate provide me with your inputs and papers that logically and analytically challenge that risky trend in the space domain...?

Hernan L. Villagran

What is the use of solar technology in agriculture and role of green technology in sustainable development?

What is the role of the green movement in maintaining the environment and impact of green energy on environment and sustainable development?

Is artificial intelligence an enabler for sustainable development and what is sustainability in artificial intelligence?

Dear Professor/Researchers

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Why green management is important to sustainability and what is green marketing an emerging approach to sustainable development?

The Influence of Corporate Environmental Responsibility on Corporate Sustainable Development

Banks, wanting to move with the times, are modifying their offers of financial products and services, including banking, adapting them to changing social trends and customer preferences. Modifications of banking offers mainly concerning the issue of organization, the channel of access to offers are also determined by the technological progress taking place. On the other hand, in terms of changes regarding social trends, changes in customers' worldview, customers' awareness of certain topics considered current and developing, it is the banks that are now recognizing the increasing level of customers' awareness of the climate change taking place, the ongoing process of global warming, the role of humans in these processes, potential threats to the biosphere and people in the future if these processes continue, the need to urgently carry out a green transformation of the economy, to build a green closed loop economy, a sustainable and zero-carbon economy, a sharing economy, the implementation of sustainable development goals. Accordingly, banks, on the one hand, for part of their loan offerings, give names to green loans, which they provide as investment business loans for borrowers planning to implement a green business venture involving, for example, setting up photovoltaic panels on the roof of a house, apartment building, store, business, etc, purchasing an electric or hydrogen-powered car, setting up a household sewage treatment plant, a rainwater catchment system for watering the lawn, building a composter next to the home garden, building a biogas plant producing biogas for energy needs from organic and post-agricultural waste, insulating the facade of a residential building to increase the scale of savings in energy consumption, setting up a system of intelligent blinds to optimize the temperature of the building and increase energy independence, building a system to optimize waste sorting and increase the scale of recycling, building a retention reservoir in an area threatened by long-term drought, carrying out a zoning change investment to reduce the area covered with concrete or asphalt and increase the area of greenery in the city, etc. On the other hand, companies, financial institutions, including commercial banks are modifying their missions and development strategies by adding green business issues, environmental social responsibility, sustainable development goals and fashionable green slogans. Some enterprises, companies and banks also in advertising spots, videos promoting the organization's logo present this logo in the form of an animation that suggests the changes already made in the organization, that the company, enterprise or bank has become green in terms of mission and strategy, that it pursues certain selected or all sustainability goals. But this is not always consistent with the facts. Increasingly, it is greenwashing. The scale of greenwashing is growing rapidly because there is no system for verifying and certifying business entities on the question of whether they are indeed green, whether they are pursuing sustainability goals, at what scale they are doing so in the context of their overall business operations. However, some of the banks that offer, for example, green loans actually finance with their help the green business ventures that the borrowers implement. But, after all, in a significant part of the banks that modify their offerings of banking products in this way, including loans they are still only realizing what they have been doing for many years. The only difference is that previously, before the modification of the bank's offer, the financing of the borrower's project of setting up a photovoltaic panel on the roof of the house or buying an electric car was done by the bank through the granting of an investment loan and not, as now, the granting of a green investment loan. In addition, the difference is also only that green technologies are rapidly developing and becoming cheaper. Until a dozen years ago, the purchase of an electric car or the installation of a photovoltaic panel on the roof of a residential building involved a much higher expense or was practically unaffordable for citizens with an average income level. However, much has been changing in this regard in recent years, and as a result, banks are also modifying their banking product offerings and adding the issues of ecology, green transformation and implementation of sustainable development goals to their missions and development strategies. With increasing competition among banks on the issue of green banking product offerings, it is becoming more and more common for individual banks, as part of advertising campaigns, in advertising spots and promotional videos introducing their green banking products, to also give examples of a specific type of green business venture that can be financed with, for example, a specific type of green loan or green lease. In view of the above, I give one example: One bank in Poland advertises green financing in the form of photovoltaic leasing for companies and SMEs, as well as leasing an electric car. What other similar examples of advertising green banking products and/or financing certain types of green business ventures with them are used by commercial banks?

In view of the above, I address the following question to the esteemed community of scientists and researchers:

Please answer,

I invite everyone to join the discussion,

Thank you very much,

Best wishes,

Dariusz Prokopowicz

What are the most environmentally friendly solar panels and role of solar energy in sustainable development in India?

The increase in pro-environmental, pro-climate and pro-environmental awareness of citizens is also resulting in a change in business strategy towards increasing the achievement of sustainability goals, producing product and/or service offerings described as green, adding green economy and sustainability issues to the mission of the business entity, etc. of many companies, businesses, financial and public institutions. An increasing number of banks and other financial institutions, with the aim of improving their image in advertising campaigns, on their websites, at events and in public relations activities, are presenting themselves as pursuing sustainable development goals, caring for the future of future generations of citizens and, therefore, their customers, and joining the increasingly widespread trend of pro-climate and pro-environmental actions consisting of business development taking into account the implementation of technological solutions contributing to the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. As part of this effort to portray themselves as green financial institutions, some banks and other financial institutions annually organise competitions with financial prizes for startups creating, developing and implementing green technologies and energy eco-innovations facilitating the development of renewable and emission-free energy sources, green technologies enhancing the potential for saving drinking water, eco-innovations facilitating the development of sustainable organic agriculture, green technologies improving the efficiency of waste sorting and recycling processes, the development of electro-mobility, enhancing opportunities for low-carbon construction and other green technologies and eco-innovations that will make it possible to build a zero-carbon, sustainable, green circular economy in the shorter term. The best pro-climate and pro-environmental projects developed and implemented by startups receive funding from banks to increase the capacity and scale of development and business implementation of green technologies and eco-innovations. By organising such competitions, banks and other business entities are building a new image for their business, in which sustainability and green business development are to play an increasingly important role. At the same time, they are explaining on their websites why they are joining the increasingly widespread trend in business to scale up specific sustainability goals and carry out business transformation towards achieving zero carbon. The online promotion of such competitions for the best business implementation of new green technologies and eco-innovations also acts as an advertisement for the institution holding the competition as an entity that has added sustainability to its mission. Despite the lack of a system for full verification of the reliability of such promotional activities and assessment of the level of the implementation of sustainable development goals, the reality of doing green business, and the scale of greenwashing, which is occurring more and more frequently, the prevalence of this trend in business in correlation with the growth of general social pro-climate and pro-environmental awareness of citizens performs many positive functions. Among these many positive functions of the processes outlined above, the lobbying of business in the political sphere plays a particularly positive role, which can also cause pro-environmental and pro-climate changes in the content of laws and other legal norms shaping the functioning of economic entities in the economy, taking into account the growing role of sustainability. Such promotional activities of organising and advertising competitions for green start-ups are an important element of building a green image in a commercial bank and support synergistic activities of developing the green credit offer. Simultaneously carried out various types of activities aimed at supporting the development of green businesses of bank clients, implementation of green technologies by clients, carrying out green business ventures by borrowers, pro-climate investments, etc., can create a kind of added value and increase the effectiveness of the processes of building a new image of an increasingly sustainable bank, implementation of a new green mission, development of a green offer of bank products, etc. In this way, banks and other financial institutions can contribute to accelerating the processes of carrying out a pro-environmental and pro-climate transformation of the classic growth, brown, linear economy of excess to a sustainable, green, zero-carbon growth and closed loop economy. On the other hand, if there is more greenwashing in this kind of activity than reliable implementation of sustainability and green business development, then unfortunately, apart from a kind of repainting of a company's or bank's image in green, there is little real implementation of the green transformation of the economy. There is no institutional system of verification of the level of greenwashing, including the assessment of the reliability of the formulated provisions, the implementation of pro-environmental and pro-climate strategic objectives made by banks and other business entities, the declarations made regarding support, financing the development of green business ventures, financing pro-environmental investments with green loans, etc. The basis for the creation of an institutional system of verification of the level of greenwashing, including the assessment of the reliability of the formulated provisions, declarations of green business development, the level of implementation of the objectives of sustainable development is the issue of a large level of diversity in the scale of activities undertaken by banks and other economic entities to support the development of green businesses developed by customers, as well as the high level of variation in the activities of promoting themselves as green, sustainable business entities and the high level of variation in the declarations introduced by commercial banks regarding programmes for the implementation of sustainable development goals, the bank's participation in the process of reducing emissions of CO2 and other greenhouse gases, the target of achieving a zero-carbon economy and building zero-carbon, sustainable business enterprises.

In view of the above, I address the following question to the esteemed community of scientists and researchers:

What do you think about this topic?

What is your opinion on this subject?

Please respond,

I invite you all to join the discussion,

Thank you very much,

Best wishes,

Dariusz Prokopowicz

In my opinion, YES. But there are important specific determinants that should be met. Well, yes, you should invest in companies that implement sustainable development goals and carry out a green transformation of their business. Yes, if a company has good development prospects, reliably pursues certain goals, is well managed, follows business ethics, takes seriously not only the consumers of its product and service offerings but also other citizens, does not ignore the principles of corporate social responsibility, etc., then of course it will find many interested investors who will invest in this company. And if, in addition, this company promotes the idea of a green, sustainable, zero-emission, closed-loop economy, realistically contributes and participates in the process of efficiently carried out green transformation of the economy, realizes the goals of sustainable development, is environmentally and climatically responsible, does not emit pollutants and greenhouse gases into the environment, does not practice greenwashing, financially supports pro-environmental and pro-climate social campaigns and pro-climate NGOs that promote scaling up protection of the biosphere, biodiversity and climate are additional assets to invest in such a company. Especially if there are startups operating in this way then they should be subsidized by sustainable investment funds specially created for this purpose that provide funding, grants in green finance. Such companies may need financial support in the first years of green business through external financing from the green grant system from commercially operating investment funds and/or from the state's public finance system. However, in the long term, such business entities that promote the idea of a closed-loop economy, pursue sustainable development goals, act in a socially and environmentally responsible manner, implement and develop green technologies and eco-innovations, and carry out a green transformation of their business should also function fully commercially and should generate profits that will allow them to continue their operations and development in the years to come.

In view of the above, I address the following question to the esteemed community of scientists and researchers:

What do you think about this topic?

What is your opinion on this issue?

Please answer,

I invite everyone to join the discussion,

Thank you very much,

Best regards,

Dariusz Prokopowicz

What is education for sustainable development competencies?

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How can we make our environment sustainable and sustainable development keep balance in development and environment?

What is the role of sustainable development in nature and who have to play the main role in maintaining the environmental balance?

How can economic growth be balanced with environmental protection in sustainable development and issues in growth development and sustainability?

I would like to lead a scientific discussion around the "sustainable development in the construction sector" And I hope to have your reactions.

1. Why is sustainable development in the construction sector important?

2. What are geopolymer materials, and how do they compare to Portland cementitious materials from an environmental perspective?

3. How can natural fibers, such as bamboo and hemp, be used in geopolymer materials to improve their properties?

4. What are some factors that can affect the performance of natural fiber-reinforced geopolymer composites?

5. In your opinion, what are some areas for future research in this field?

We published an article in this sense, and I hope to have your reactions to this article. Here are the links to read this article.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2023.131666

We are pleased to announce an open call for academics and researchers to contribute to the forthcoming Handbook on Teaching and Learning in Social Innovation published by Edward Elgar. This publication, led by Dr Erich J. Schwarz as the editor and in collaboration with Dr David B. Audretsch as the co-editor, aims to explore the intersections of teaching, learning, and Social Innovation to address pressing global challenges. The Handbook is scheduled to be published in 2025.

What is the role of sustainability in economic development and economic components of sustainable development?

Taking into account the negative aspects of the unsustainable development of the economy, including the over-consumption of natural resources, the increasing scale of environmental pollution, the still high greenhouse gas emissions, the progressing process of global warming, the intensifying negative effects of the climate change taking place, etc., it is necessary to accelerate the processes of carrying out the pro-environmental and pro-climate transformation of the classic growth, brown, linear economy of excess into a sustainable, green, zero-carbon growth and closed loop economy. One of the key determinants for achieving the aforementioned green transformation of the economy is also the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals, i.e. according to the UN standard 17 Sustainable Development Goals. In recent years, many companies and enterprises, noticing the growing importance of this issue, including the increasing scale of pro-environmental and pro-climate awareness of citizens, i.e. customers of their offers of companies and enterprises, add to their missions and development strategies the issues of implementation of sustainable development goals and present themselves and their offers of products and services within advertising campaigns and other forms of marketing communication as green, implementing specific sustainable development goals, environmentally and climate friendly, etc. Unfortunately, this is always in accordance with the fact that the implementation of the sustainable development goals is not a fact. Unfortunately, this is not always consistent with the facts. Research shows that in the European Union, the majority of existing companies and enterprises already carry out this type of marketing communication to a greater or lesser extent. However, a significant proportion of businesses that present themselves as green, pursuing specific sustainability goals, environmentally and climate-friendly, and that present their product and service offerings as green, made exclusively from natural raw materials, and produced fully in line with sustainability goals, are doing so unreliably and misleading potential customers. Many companies and businesses are greenwashing. It is therefore necessary to improve systems for verifying what economic operators present about themselves and their offerings in their marketing communications against the facts. By significantly reducing the scale of greenwashing used by many companies, it will be possible to increase the effectiveness of carrying out the process of green transformation of the economy and really increase the scale of achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. Significant instruments to motivate business operators to conduct marketing communications in a reliable way also include extending the scope of business operators' reporting to include sustainability issues. The addition of sustainability reporting obligations for companies and businesses in line with the European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS) should motivate economic actors to scale up their implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals. In November 2022, the Council of the European Union finally approved the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD). The Directive requires companies to report on sustainability in accordance with the European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS). This means that under the Directive, more than 3,500 companies in Poland will have to disclose sustainability data. The ESRS standards developed by EFRAG (European Financial Reporting Advisory Group) have been submitted to the European Commission and we are currently waiting for their final form in the form of delegated acts. However, this does not mean that companies should not already be looking at the new obligations. Especially if they have not reported on sustainability issues so far, or have done so to a limited extent. Companies will have to disclose sustainability issues in accordance with ESRS standards. It is therefore essential to build systemic reporting standards for business entities enriched with sustainability issues. In a situation where the addition of sustainability reporting obligations in accordance with the European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS) to company and corporate reporting is effectively carried out, there should be an increased incentive for business entities to scale up their sustainability goals. In this regard, the introduction of enhanced disclosure of sustainability issues should help to increase the scale of implementation of the sustainable development goals and accelerate the processes of transformation of the economy towards a sustainable green circular economy.

In view of the above, I would like to address the following question to the esteemed community of scientists and researchers:

What do you think about it?

What is your opinion on this subject?

Please respond,

I invite you all to discuss,

Thank you very much,

Counting on your opinions, on getting to know your personal opinion, on an honest approach to discussing scientific issues and not the ready-made answers generated in ChatGPT, I deliberately used the phrase "in your opinion" in the question.

The above text is entirely my own work written by me on the basis of my research.

I have not used other sources or automatic text generation systems such as ChatGPT in writing this text.

Copyright by Dariusz Prokopowicz

Best wishes,

Dariusz Prokopowicz

Imaging that for modelling convenience we take dependent variables as independent in order to simplify the world, that would lead to conflicting schools of thoughts addressing the same issue in a compartamentalized manner. In other words using independent variable thinking to address system stability analysis should be expected to lead different rootcausality, and to different, a competing approaches on how to address the same system stability issue. Think for example.of system stability frameworks based on market dynamics and population dynamics and environmental concerns. Which lead to the question: Would wrongly assuming that dependent variables are independent provide a distorted view of the problem?

What do you think?

Is sustainable development compatible with economic growth and relationship between environmental change and sustainable development?

What are ecologically sustainable development and economic growth and relationship between inclusive growth and sustainable development?

What is the relationship between green growth and sustainable development and relationship between eco growth and development?

Is an important component of sustainable development and inclusive growth and relationship between the three pillars of sustainable development?

What is the role of recycling of waste in sustainable development and importance of recycle and reduce waste management?

The sharing economy model, i.e. the sharing economy, the sharing economy, the collaborative economy, is an important element of what is more broadly referred to as a sustainable circular economy. On the other hand, the processes of green transformation of economies aimed, among other things, at reducing the consumption of natural resources, decreasing waste generation and decreasing greenhouse gas emissions are expected to lead to a reduction in the scale of carbon emissions, i.e. greenhouse gas emissions and thus slow down the progressive process of global warming and reduce the scale of environmental pollution, reduce the scale of loss of biodiversity of natural ecosystems and the consumption of strategic natural resources such as water and rare raw materials. The phenomenon is based on people's willingness to cooperate, help others and share their time and resources, which is reciprocated in various ways (material and non-material). In the past, this form of cooperation was limited to a narrow circle of family, friends and neighbours, and with mass production, the development of trade and services and stronger migration resulting in the separation of multi-generational families and the loss of networks of acquaintances, this phenomenon slowly lost its importance and its functions were taken over by companies and institutions (e.g. public institutions). The other side of human nature, which is the desire to compete and look after narrowly defined self-interest, is the basis of classical economics, but under market economy conditions it sometimes leads to distortions (exploitation, fraud, etc.). Thanks to the development and application of new technologies, collaborative economics is once again gaining popularity and economic rationality. A key determinant of the dynamic development of the sharing economy was the financial crisis in 2008, as well as the need to save money, make better use of resources and change social relations. The development of the concept of a sustainable circular economy should therefore also take the sharing economy into account. The circular economy takes into account, among other things, the minimisation of the environmental impact of the production cycle. An important element of the closed loop economy can be the production method called in Polish 'from cradle to cradle'. This idea specifies methods for designing and producing objects in accordance with the concept of sustainable development, so that, at the end of their useful life, they can be put back into the production cycle. The circular economy also has a territorial dimension. In the context of the functioning of regions and especially urban areas, it refers to yet other economic solutions, e.g. the concept of the sharing economy, according to which unlimited consumption or accumulation of property gives way to sharing, exchanging or borrowing. According to this concept, people give up many goods for their own exclusive use in favour of others, i.e. they reduce the need for products whose production cycle often requires large amounts of raw materials and energy. The sharing economy is defined as a social and economic phenomenon that involves a shift in organisational and distribution models towards distributed networks of interconnected individuals and communities, involving both the direct provision of services by people to each other, as well as sharing, co-creation, co-direction, etc., enabling a radical increase in resource efficiency. Accordingly, the sharing economy model is an essential component of a sustainable circular economy and thus a sustainable green zero-carbon economy or one that strives towards zero-carbon.

In view of the above, I address the following question to the esteemed community of scientists and researchers:

What is your opinion on this subject?

Please respond,

I invite you all to discuss,

Thank you very much,

Best wishes,

Dariusz Prokopowicz

How sustainable development is a solution to environmental crisis and difference between sustainable development and environmental sustainability?

Happy World Environment Day to everyone out there championing sustainable development. #sustainability #development #environment

Imagine a world where developing countries have to work under dwarf green market thinking as they do not have the resources needed to close their renewable energy technology gap and they are then stucked in a world of bearing climate change without a path to environmentally clean markets. And imagine developed countries using their resources to close their renewable energy technology gap as they have the resources to do so and work under green market thinking with a clear path to transition to an environmentally clean economy.

We can look at this bipolar world as existing under a closed system and under an open system environment. Which raises the question: Competition between dwarf green markets and green markets under closed and open systems: How does it work? Which countries would fall first?

What do you think?

Respectfully yours;

The entrepreneurship has a significant impact on the sustainable development in various aspects including economic, social, and environment sides.

I just took a look at the document just signed in Paris in Nov-Dec 2015 to deal with the issue of global warming, which apparently is to be implemented through sustainable development means:

I am surprised to see they have not defined what type of sustainable development model or market structure is the one that they are using to address the global warming issue since the word "sustainability" seems to be nowhere. There seem to be different indirect definitions of sustainable development in ARTICLE 2, 4, 6, 7, 8, and 10 in the appendix

Are we going to use different sustainable development models or market structures at the same time to deal with the same issue? If yes, how are we going to compare results if using different methodologies later on to monitor progress and if possible link results/responsibilities?

Has anyone else notice this? What type of sustainable development model  or market structure is the UN using against global warming?

Sustainability refers to the ability to maintain or preserve something over time, without depleting or damaging the resources that enable it to exist. In the context of environmental sustainability, it means using natural resources in a way that does not harm the environment and enables future generations to continue to use and benefit from those resources. This includes reducing waste and pollution, conserving energy and natural resources, and promoting the use of renewable and non-toxic resources.

Sustainability is not just limited to environmental concerns but also encompasses social and economic sustainability. It means promoting fair and equitable access to resources and opportunities for all individuals and communities, while also ensuring that economic growth and development do not compromise the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.

Sustainable Development

I just started a project entitled "Implementation of Village Knowledge Centres (VKCs) in Kerala towards the achievement of Sustainable Development Goals(SDGs): a feasibility study". I expect novel ideas, concepts, practical solutions, sharing of experience, etc. from scholars like you.

Thank You

Dr. Prakasan P.M.

Assistant Professor

Dear Sir,

I discover the summary of your text today. Can you explain to me what major difference can be made between a complex system in Prigogine's sense and what you call a "Nexus"? Is not it because this term is a synonymous little used that you struggle to find references?

Looking forward to hearing from you, please accept my most sincere greetings.

J Quensière

As a consequence of the 2012 green market paradigm shift avoidance all countries are left on their own to address the environmental crisis without a common green market framework to promote, expand, and nurture economic activity systematically.

All countries are following different versions of dwarf green markets and different definitions of green, some of them that are inconsistent with green market thinking, but politically viable....But politically viable, does not make it right as when you burn the gas you get CO2.....

For example, the EU came out with the definition of "green gas" to solve a political problem, in an environmentally unfriendly manner.. Now the US came out with the definition of "polluting gas" as CO2 from burning it is air pollution to address a political problem, but in an environmentally friendly way…. and this raises the question, .Who is wrong: The EU / Green gas or the USA / Polluting gas?.

What do you think?

This is the PowerPoint which I used for my lecture held on Friday, 14th April 2023 at the 1st International Conference on Sustainable Development Goals and the Gandhian Way (Constructive Programmes), organised by the Gandhian School of Democracy and Socialism at ITM University, Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh, India, on 14–16 April 2023. The title of my lecture was: “Rights, liberalism, multiculturalism. The PowerPoint contains some reflections. I am writing a text which will be published in some months. In my study, I deal with different positions on rights, liberalism and multiculturalism. For my investigation, I shall mainly refer to the following studies: Will Kymlicka’s Multicultural Citizenship: A Liberal Theory of Minority, Chandran Kukathas’ Cultural Toleration and The Liberal Archipelago: A Theory of Diversity and Freedom, Doriane L. Coleman’s Individualizing Justice through Multiculturalism: The Liberalsʼ Dilemma, and Brian Barry’s Culture and Equality: An Egalitarian Critique of Multiculturalism. In Kymlicka’s liberal theory of group rights, the acknowledgement of rights to groups and, therefore, of rights not only reserved to individuals is to be interpreted as an extension and natural development of the liberal tradition. Kukathas considers the state as only being an aggregation between groups: the state has therefore no authority of coercion in relation to the groups. Since liberalism is toleration, the rules holding in the different groups ought, in the opinion of Kukathas, to be tolerated, even though these rules are oppressive, intolerant and illiberal for the members of the group itself. The analysis of Coleman will introduce us to the interesting problem of the cultural defences and of the problems that the strategy of the cultural defences represents for the American and not only the American tribunals: is a pluralistic interpretation of the law in a right state to be accepted, as those who plead for the cultural defences want to, or is a pluralistic interpretation of the law to be refused? The analysis of Coleman gives us highly valuable elements in order to understand the problems posed by some interpretations of multiculturalism for the equal protection clause. Barry excludes every form of diminution of individual liberty and of diminution of protection of the individual liberty in his interpretation of liberalism and in the connected duty assigned to the state as regards the protection of the fundamental rights of the individuals.

In connection with the still high level of greenhouse gas emissions and the rapidly progressing process of global warming, in order to save a significant part of the planet's biosphere from annihilation and to ensure the possibility of life on the planet for future generations of people, it is necessary to effectively and efficiently carry out a green transformation of the economy, including carrying out a green transformation primarily of such sectors of the economy as the energy sector, agriculture, transport, construction and industrial and mining sectors. Besides, the key factors of green transformation of the economy also include increasing the scale of waste sorting and recycling, increasing the scale of implementation of sustainable development goals in individual spheres of civilisation development, increasing green areas in cities, and systemic reform of forestry consisting in changing deforestation processes into aforestation, increasing the scale of sustainability, restoration and protection of biodiversity in forest management. In order to effectively and efficiently carry out the green transformation of the energy sector, it is necessary to scale up the development of renewable and emission-free energy sources. In some countries, such as Poland, there is still an outdated energy system in which more than three quarters of heat and electricity is produced by dirty fossil fuel combustion energy. Such a high level of underdevelopment in the energy sector is the result of unused technological and financial opportunities, as well as mainly blocking and limiting the development of clean, emission-free renewable energy in the last 3 decades and especially in the last 8 years. Key factors for the limited sources of financing for the development of renewable and zero-carbon energy sources include, for example, the earmarking of funds obtained from the sale of CO2 emission rights for other purposes instead of supporting the green energy transition. As a result, the energy system, dominated by government-controlled SOEs, large mining, refining and energy companies, is characterised by low levels of investment in new green technologies and energy eco-innovations. Over the past 8 years, despite emerging technological and financial opportunities, energy companies have failed to make investments that would increase the level of flexibility in adapting energy transmission networks to changes in the level of energy production from different energy sources, including renewable and carbon-free energy sources. As a result of the lack of this type of investment, it is becoming increasingly common that when the level of sunshine is high and/or the level of wind power is high and/or the level of energy consumption by citizens is significantly reduced, there is a large unused surplus of energy. Technologically outdated power grids are unable to accommodate such large energy surpluses. The lack of a constructed storage system for the surplus energy produced results in large losses of generated electricity from renewable and emission-free energy sources. In addition, the government encouraged the development of prosumer energy by having citizens co-finance the creation of backyard mini-generation plants, i.e. mainly the installation of photovoltaic panels on the roof of residential houses. On the other hand, when prosumers, i.e. citizens, produce a significant surplus of electricity, the government-controlled electricity transmission grid companies do not accept this surplus electricity and therefore do not refinance the citizens' bills for the surplus electricity produced. In addition, in a situation of high levels of sunshine and wind power, i.e. where there is a large surplus of electricity generated, it is mainly renewable and emission-free energy sources that are excluded from the energy production system, and not dirty combustion energy sources emitting CO2 into the atmosphere. These are therefore very serious systemic errors in energy management by the government in Poland over recent years.

In view of the above, I address the following question to the esteemed community of scientists and researchers:

What do you think about this topic?

What is your opinion on this subject?

Please respond,

I invite you all to discuss,

Thank you very much,

Best regards,

Dariusz Prokopowicz

The relationship of the human resource to sustainable development?

the role of human resource formation in sustainable development

The essence of sustainability derives from the study of sustainable, human-interference-free, biodiverse natural ecosystems of specific natural environments, which contain a wealth of species of flora, fauna and micro-organisms linked by many different ecological relationships. The ideas of sustainability are applied in developing the characteristics of sustainability in various aspects of human activity, the development of civilisation, various aspects of the economy, etc. The importance of the role of sustainability and its application in the context of economic development is growing in direct proportion to the scale of the increase in the negative effects of the development of human civilisation, which include the increasing scale of environmental pollution, the increasing scale of deforestation, the increasing scale of betonosis i.e. These include the increasing scale of environmental pollution, growing scale of deforestation, increasing scale of betonosis, i.e. urbanised areas and shrinking green areas in cities, growing emissions of greenhouse gases, accelerating greenhouse effect, accelerating global warming, growing scale of soil depletion, forest fires, weather anomalies and climatic and natural disasters, decline of biodiversity of the planet's natural ecosystems, etc. The aim is to reverse these negative processes, which have a negative impact on the environment. In order to reverse these negative processes and save as much of the planet's threatened biosphere as possible, it is necessary to carry out a green transformation of the economy on a multifaceted scale. In this respect, a system of 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has been defined within the framework of cyclical UN conferences on this issue and the global problems of climate change, which should be implemented on as large a scale as possible in order to reduce the scale of action and negative effects of unsustainable, intensive, rapid economic development within the framework of a predatory brown economy based on high scale exploitation of natural resources, including non-renewable natural resources, energy production mainly based on dirty fossil fuel combustion energy, increasing scale of environmental pollution, increasing scale of greenhouse gas emissions, negligible scale of secondary raw material use and recycling, accelerating global warming, rapid degradation of the biosphere, decline of biodiversity, etc. One of the key aspects of achieving a green transformation of the economy is to build a zero-carbon economy based on sustainable, zero-carbon, green energy, i.e. the development of renewable and zero-carbon energy sources. This is essential and should be realised in 100% by the end of this decade of the 2030s at the latest if the main strategic goal of international environmental and climate policy is to be met, i.e. to halt the global average global atmospheric temp. increase of max. 1.5 degrees C since the beginning of the first industrial revolution. This goal was defined and established for implementation at the UN conference on this issue, i.e. during the so-called Paris Agreement of 2015. Of course, the green transformation of the economy is a much more multifaceted process, in which all sectors and branches of the economy, many fields of human activity, many aspects of the development of civilisation, the ongoing development of energy, industry, agriculture, technological progress, etc. should be involved in practice. The green transformation of the economy should take place within the framework of a pro-environmental and pro-climate transformation of the classic growth, brown, linear economy of excess to a sustainable, green, zero-emission growth and closed loop economy, in which the implementation of the goals of sustainable development and increasing the scale of sustainability at the level of development of civilisation in relation to the surrounding environment should be strategically important objectives.

In view of the above, I address the following question to the esteemed community of scientists and researchers:

And what is your opinion on this?

What is your opinion on this subject?

Please respond,

I invite you all to discuss,

Thank you very much,

Best wishes,

Dariusz Prokopowicz

ICTO2023: ETHICAL & RESPONSIBLE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE FOR SUSTAINABLE SOCIETIES

Hosts : L'Observatoire de l'Intelligence Artificielle de Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne

& La Gendarmerie Nationale Française

& L'Ecole des Officiers de la Gendarmerie Nationale

▪ EasyChair system open for submissions: February 15th, 2023

▪ Paper submission deadline: April 30th,  2023

▪ Notification of acceptance (rolling basis): May 15th, 2023

▪ Camera-ready submissions: May 31st, 2023

▪ Doctoral Consortium/ Junior Faculty nomination: April 30th, 2023

▪ Notification of Doctoral Consortium/ Junior Faculty acceptance: May 15th, 2023

▪ Author Registration: May 15th, 2023

• Authors should submit original, unpublished research papers. Submissions should not be under consideration for any other conference or journal outlet.

• Submission must be made on easychair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icto2023

• Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings.