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Inviting Global Ideas & Suggestions For LiFE - Building an Environmentally Sustainable Future

Inviting Global Ideas & Suggestions For LiFE - Building an Environmentally Sustainable Future
Start Date :
Jun 15, 2022
Last Date :
Jul 31, 2022
23:45 PM IST (GMT +5.30 Hrs)
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India is one of the leaders in sustainable development and clean energy. With the Hon PM Narendra Modi-led government’s reform-oriented, environment-friendly policies, the ...

India is one of the leaders in sustainable development and clean energy. With the Hon PM Narendra Modi-led government’s reform-oriented, environment-friendly policies, the country has time & again shown that sound environmental policies can pave the way to a sound economy.

At the UN Climate Change Conference COP26 in 2021, PM Shri Narendra Modi announced the ‘LiFE’, a mission to bring individual behavioural change at the forefront of the global climate action narrative. LIFE or Lifestyle for Environment along with the ‘Pro Planet People’ movement, aims to strengthen the efforts to overcome climate change.

LiFE will replace the prevailing 'use-and-throw’ thinking with an environmentally conscious lifestyle. The Mission is to create a global community of ‘Pro-Planet People’ (P3), who with their shared commitment will adopt and promote environmentally friendly lifestyles.

Individual Efforts Are Key to Climate Commitment

India's traditional knowledge strongly positions it to lead the narrative of addressing climate change. Like many other mass movements, LiFE aims to inspire climate action based on the mantra of ‘Sabka Sath, Sabka Vikas’.

MyGov invites you to share your ideas and suggestions on how to adapt to an environmentally conscious lifestyle.

1. Reduce
2. Reuse
3. Recycle
4. Renewable
5. Recover
6. Re-design
7. Re-manufacture

Few examples for the above:
Reduce - Electricity, Fuel Usage
Reuse - Old Clothes, Electronics, Building materials, furniture
Recycle - Plastic, newspapers, cartons, boxes
Renewable - Solar, Wind, Hydro, Tidal, Geothermal & Biomass
Recover - Forests, rivers, soil, mountains, wildlife
Redesign - Green buildings
Remanufacture - E-waste for new purposes

Our civilisational values have taught us the importance of living in harmony with nature. Today, let’s come together to protect our environment & take forward Mission LiFE - Lifestyle for Environment.

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Deepali Hingne adv
Deepali Hingne adv 3 years 11 months ago
climate change & 2 it's efforts individual engage - engagement 2 betterment make a movement start in small groups & self areas from 1st of august up2 15th or whole month of august celebrate cleanliness - on 75 independent day _ plastic/gadgets recent innovation हैं पर सोचा है सिर्फ 10/15 साल में आनेवाले कितने सालों तक के लिए nature के लिए disturbances पैदा किए हैं और वो 2/3 सालों से देख भी रहे तो कुछ करने का सोचना पड़ेगा on actual ground level not on digital platform but start - start digital home सब को साथ लाने के लिए साथ काम करने के लिए q के विकास एहसास के साथ होगा सब मिलकर होगा बेवजह का debate करने के बजाय do 4 nation इतना आसान नहीं पर देश हमारा है लोग अपने हैं सब सुरक्षित रहेंगे तो हम सब अपने आप ..
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Farvez Basha D
Farvez Basha D 3 years 11 months ago
Economic sustainability implies a system of production that satisfies present consumption levels without compromising future needs (Lobo, Pietriga, & Appert, 2015). Traditionally, economists assuming that the supply of natural resources was unlimited, placed undue emphasis on the capacity of the market to allocate resources efficiently (Du & Kang, 2016). They also believed that economic growth would be accompanied by the technological advancement to replenish natural resources destroyed in the production process (Cooper & Vargas, 2004).
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Farvez Basha D 3 years 11 months ago
As a visionary and forward-looking development paradigm, SD emphasises a positive transformation trajectory anchored essentially on social, economic and environmental factors. According to Taylor (2016), the three main issues of sustainable development are economic growth, environmental protection and social equality. Based on this, it can be argued that the concept of SD rests, fundamentally, on three conceptual pillars. These pillars are “economic sustainability”, “social sustainability”, and ‘environmental sustainability.
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Farvez Basha D 3 years 11 months ago
The above hypothetical case illustrates the linkages among the three interconnected domains of sustainability and the need to integrate them for SD (Basiago, 1999). Although this example may have been oversimplified, it contextualises how the economic, social and environmental substrates of sustainability relate to one another and can foster SD (Basiago, 1999; Khan, 1995).
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Farvez Basha D 3 years 11 months ago
According to Khan (1995) as cited in Bassiago (1999): “If a man in a given geographical area lacks a job (economic), he is likely to be poor and disenfranchised (social); if he is poor and disenfranchised, he has an incentive to engage in practices that harm ecology, for example, by cutting down trees for firewood to cook his meals and warm his home (environmental). As his actions are aggregated with those of others in his region cutting down trees, deforestation will cause vital minerals to be lost from the soil (environmental). If vital minerals are lost from the soil, the inhabitants will be deprived of the dietary nutrients required to sustain the intellectual performance needed to learn new technologies, for example, how to operate a computer, and this will cause productivity to reduce or stagnate (economic). If productivity stagnates (economic), poor people will remain poor or poorer (social), and the cycle continues.”
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Farvez Basha D 3 years 11 months ago
The argument is that, when the concepts contained in the three spheres of sustainability are applied well to real world situations, everybody wins because natural resources are preserved, the environment is protected, the economy booms and is resilient, social life is good because there is peace and respect for human rights (DESA-UN, 2018; Kaivo-oja, Panula-Ontto, Vehmas, & Luukkanen, 2013). Kahn (1995) and Basiago (1999) provide a vivid illustration regarding the relationships among economic, social and environmental sustainability, arguing that the three domains must be integrated for sustainability sake.
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Farvez Basha D 3 years 11 months ago
Yang (2019) supports the argument by opining that basically, the figure depicts that proper decisions on sustainable resource management will bring about sustainable growth for sustainable society. Examples of these include decisions on land use, surface water management, agricultural practices, building design and construction, energy management, education, equal opportunities as well as law-making and enforcement (Montaldo, 2013; Porter & van der Linde, 1995).
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Farvez Basha D 3 years 11 months ago
Basically, it can be concluded from the figure that, nearly everything man does or plans to do on earth has implications for the environment, economy or society and for that matter the continued existence and wellbeing of the human race. Akin to this, as argued by Wanamaker (2018), the spheres constitute a set of interrelated concepts which should form the basis of human decisions and actions in the quest for SD.
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Farvez Basha D 3 years 11 months ago
The concept of sustainability appears poised to continue to influence future discourse regarding development science. This, in the view of Porter and van der Linde (1995), implies that the best choices are likely to remain those that meet the needs of society and are environmentally and economically viable, economically and socially equitable as well as socially and environmentally bearable. This leads to three interconnected spheres or domains of sustainability that describe the relationships among the environmental, economic, and social aspects of SD as captured
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Farvez Basha D 3 years 11 months ago
A reaffirmed commitment to SD was key to the conference outcome document, ‘”The Future We Want” to such an extent that the phrase “sustainable development” appears 238 times within the 49 pages (UNSD, 2018a). Outcomes of Rio +20 included a process for developing new SDGs, to take effect from 2015 and to encourage focused action on SD in all sectors of global development agenda (Weitz, Carlsen, Nilsson, & Skånberg, 2017). Thus, in 2012, SD was identified as one of the five key priorities by the United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon in the UN action agenda, highlighting the key role SD should play in international and national development policies, programmes and agenda.
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