2016 is CISV’s Year of Sustainable Development
April 18, 2016Dig In: Introducing Sustainable Development through Activities
May 2, 2016What is Sustainable Development?
2016 is CISV’s year for Sustainable Development. Throughout the year, we will bring you ideas, discussion pieces, materials and resources to help you to explore, educate on, and take action toward Sustainable Development in your Chapter or Programme.
Hello again CISV world!
It is time to dig in to Sustainable Development, and we are here to guide you through it.
Who are we, you wonder? We are The Kompaz Project, a cooperation between CISV Colombia and CISV Norway. Working in a team of four people (two from each country) we started working with sustainable development in August, trying to produce a collection of videos to better explain the topic.
And that is not an easy task.
Sustainable development is difficult to define. The most commonly used definition, created by the Brundtland Commission – “how to meet the needs of the present without compromising the need of future generations to meet their own needs?” – was cited in the last post, but this is only one of many definitions used around the globe.
So what did we do to move forward?
In September 2015, the United Nations (UN) adopted something called the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). With 17 main goals and 169 targets, the SDGs aim to unite the world in the fight for a more sustainable world. These 17 goals are therefore a good basis to understand what sustainable development is about, and they have also laid the foundation for our video collection.
It is also important to remember that sustainable development means different things to different people. Trying to create a sustainable society can be very different from region to region, from city to city, and from person to person.
That is one of the reasons we are excited to work with this topic in 2016, CISV Year of Sustainable Development. We want to make people reflect on sustainable development and become more aware of what it actually means. We have already reflected a lot, but we are far from done.
Yours,
The Kompaz Project Team
On behalf of the Sustainable Development Team*
*The Sustainable Development Team includes members of CISV’s Educational Programmes Committee, Kompaz Project, International Junior Branch Team, Communications Team, and the International Office. Our team coordinator is Madeleine Le Bourdon.
