Our challenge today is Sustainable Development
154 views · Published 30 May 2012 · 1:45 · Indexed 27 September 2026
Channel: UN Environment Programme · 2012 · Nonprofits & Activism
"Economics drives our perspectives on development, we measure development in economic indicides such as GDP. We look at how much we export, we look at balance of payments accounts, we essentially measure the wellbeing of a society in terms of what it transacts today. Yet what we are saying with these statistics is that this is only one dimension of measuring development, and in fact if you want to understand whether development today, will compromise or assure development tomorrow, then you
