Already the impacts of climate change are being felt at a local level, with lives lost, social services overwhelmed, and infrastructure damaged. Nature is heavily degraded; and large swathes of populations, particularly in higher-income countries, are over-consuming resources whilst deep poverty remains across the globe.
Higher and lower-income countries will not be able to achieve sustainable and inclusive low-carbon growth if their societies do not transform to be economically, physically, and socially resilient and sustainable.
Activities within the building sustainable societies theme
Policies for sustainable societies
Staff in 杏吧论坛’s Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method will address the issue of how a concern for sustainability should guide policy decision making, including what knowledge is required, and how sustainabi