Artic in your backyard as a critical sustainable development issue

This post has been made for providing my answers to the assignment given from VOC2 Sustainable Development learning environment: http://interdisciplinaryappraoach.blogspot.fi/

5. Read through the information on sustainable development on this blog. Use it to help you answer the questions below, along with your own experiences and expertise

a.      Please explain briefly your own interest in Sustainable Development.

My own interest in Sustainable Development (SD) is in ecological domain. My deep concern about the environmental degradations and climate change is based on the scientist reports, world organizations, NGOs e.g. WWF who are working on the issue.  Time is ticking to alert for consequences of broken apart of natural systems and call for their actions to reverse unsustainability.

 

I would like to see any progress made by human actions. For instance, according to WWF, they are currently focus on the following Global initiatives on SD issues:

• Amazon


• Arctic


• China for a Global Shift


• Climate & Energy


• Coastal East Africa


• Coral Triangle


• Forest and Climate


• Green Heart of Africa


• Heart of Borneo


• Living Himalayas


• Market Transformation


• Smart Fishing


• Tigers: WWF World tiger post: http://1drv.ms/1gniSiM  

 

A video made by WWF "Artic in your backyard " tells about glimpse of artic SD issues:  http://youtu.be/1IFCzdvjW_k

 

 

Reference:

WWF Global initiatives: http://wwf.panda.org/what_we_do/how_we_work/key_initiatives/