environmental sustainability
Preserving planetary health
Environmental sustainability is the practice of using natural resources in ways that don't deplete them for future generations.
The concept balances human needs against ecological limits—maintaining biodiversity, reducing pollution, and preserving ecosystems.
The company committed to environmental sustainability by switching to renewable energy.
Often shortened to just sustainability in environmental contexts.
- renewable energySelf-replenishing natural power
- energy efficiencyMinimizing wasted power
- circular economyRegenerative resource management model
- marine conservationProtecting sea environments
- carbon sequestrationRemoving and storing atmospheric CO2
waste reduction · eco friendly · afforestation · soil health · emissions trading · planet · water conservation · wastewater treatment · earth · wildlife corridors · habitat restoration · climate · ecology · stewardship · future generations · save the planet · recycling · organic
- sustainabilityreduce, reuse, recycle, recycling programs, waste management
- MDGspoverty reduction, primary education, gender equality, child mortality, maternal health
- ecoregional planningconservation areas, protected areas, green belts, buffer zones, wildlife corridors
- EU-ACP Aidpartnership agreement, development aid
environmental sustainabilityresource depletion
Exhausting available materials gradually
exploitation · overconsumption · overexploitation · resource extraction · short-termism
environmental sustainabilityenvironmental degradation
Decline of natural surroundings
ecocide · mass extinction · habitat destruction · deforestation · desertification
environmental sustainabilityunchecked growth
Increase without restraint
corporate greed · anti-environmentalism · climate denial · consumerism · hypercapitalism