Sustainability

In The World Commission on Environment and Development (1987) sustainable development, later reiterated in the Earth Summit 1992 and from there on conferences and agreements, was simplistically defined as:

Development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.

See also "Agenda 21", agenda for the 21st century... resultant from the 1992 Earth Summit and reiterated in other agreements such as Kyoto Agreement...

The importance of awareness at all levels within an organisation is one on the basis that an International Standard ISO 14001 implements in tune with sustainable development principles.

An effective environmental management system advances and organisation in "betterness" to communities (man, flora and fauna) and fufillment of regulatory requirements.

Advancing within an environmental managerial scheme may not be within the curriculum of natural sciences it is an interdisciplinary programme from where society and environment gain through organisations objectively demonstrating environmental consciousness, social responsibility and supporting the principles of sustainable development.

On this site we provide basic information about energy and ocean and provide some useful links, also training venues enhancing professional knowledge making sustainable development effective.

We encourage youth, adults and alike professionals from other disciplines to pursue further information thus knowledge on issues relevant to Oceans and Energy.

We present some statistics relevant to sustainability, with the intent to raise curiosity.

World Population

Forest Remaining, original

Consumption of energy in gas, coal and oil form

Automobiles world-wide

In the 70's

3.7 billion

64%

4.8 billion tons

193 million

2070

heading to 9 billion

>43%

...10+ billion tons

550 + million