[October Free Report] Reflecting on eco-livingby Elina Haber | 29-02-2024 07:17 |
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 The Sustainable Development Goals are goals that seek holistic solutions for a world where humanity continues to grow for long. ¡°SDG13 urges to take action to combat climate change and its impacts¡± - a quite urgent goal that makes a crucial goal of the 17SDGs, right? Well, for me it is, and what I think is more important is the detailed methods used to approach the climate crisis: the emotional and social approaches. Referring to somehow-ignored problem of the lack of personal climate action: based on observations of the Lebanese society, it became clear that the following must be improved; climate awareness, willingness to change to pro-environmental habits, compassionate guidance to how to attain environmentally sustainable lifestyles, accessibility to actual eco-friendly brands and facilities, accountability of the society¡¯s unethical lifestyle. However, there are some bottlenecks that stops us from choosing to try to live a better lifestyle. The lack of personal climate action is a very complex puzzle, to simplify the definition f eco-living: 1. Organizations must have a more compassionate approach to youth who have climate change anxiety, for example; 2. Brands must hire environmental consultants and therefore decrease the rate of greenwashing the brand uses; 3. Governments must start listening to the voice of the youth, possibly through young regional ambassadors; 4. Educators must be eco-conscious enough to teach the future generations how they can live more ethically; 5. Individuals must welcome small and huge opportunities and challenges to be socially-engaged citizens - for example, be open to learn from any age brackets and to add their thoughts. It makes me happy to catch credible organizations come up with fair solutions to climate change. As the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) reveals that: ¡°For example, the results of the first OECD Household Survey presented in a recent publication, Greening Household Behavior: The Role of Public Policy, indicate that households charged for water consume approximately 20% less water than those who are not.¡± (¡°OECD,¡± n.d.) Good thing, a few stakeholders realized that policies that demand households to pay for their expenses are excellent mitigations. However, to follow up on the pre-mentioned example on consumerism (which relates deeply to the mental well-being of house members), stakeholders need to create more conditions to apply the policy in more regions, conditions depend on socio-demographic, economic, consumeristic, financial factors. PS, the webpage where I retrieved the fact: ¡°For example, the results of the first OECD Household Survey presented in a recent publication, Greening Household Behavior: The Role of Public Policy, indicate that households charged for water consume approximately 20% less water than those who are not.¡± is deleted now.
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