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Sustainability

Meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs

Economic sustainability

Ensuring that average incomes in all countries are adequate to sustain a decent standard of living and continue to rise in line with inflation and living costs in the future

Ways economic sustainability can promote health and human development

-Ensuring that all people can earn a decent income

-Increasing the capacity of governments to provide services and infrastructure

-Ensuring children stay in school

Dimensions of economic sustainability

-Trade

-Job creation

-Economic growth

-Innovation and diversity of industries

Dimensions of social sustainability

-Elimination of poverty and provision of social security systems

-Gender equality

-Access to decent and safe working conditions

-Promotion of political and legal rights

-Peace and security

Dimensions of environmental sustainability

-Biodiversity

-Use of natural resources

-Waste removal and pollution

-Climate change

Changing weather patterns

-Rainfall changes

-Changing seasonal patterns

-Temperature changes

Extreme weather events

-Storms and cyclones

-Extreme heat

-Floods

-Droughts

-Fires

Global trade

Exchange of goods and services between countries

Conflict

Active disagreement between two groups with opposing opinions or principles that leads to fight or war

Mass migration

Refers to movement of large groups of people from one geographical location to another