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    Sustainable development requires governments to show leadership by integrating environmental, social, and economic factors into long-term decision making. Achieving sustainability can also provide cost savings opportunities for companies by increasing efficiency and reducing material use. A new economic model is needed that recognizes natural limits and prices environmental resources to influence markets. The government plays an important role by funding renewable technology, using fiscal policies to steer investment, building sustainable infrastructure, and regulating private behavior.

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    Sustainable Development Is Feasible

    Excerpt #1 – Time to Lead


    Achieving sustainable development will mean setting time frames for decision making.
    Governments collectively and individually have a fundamentally important role in facilitating
    progress towards a sustainable future. Governments need to show leadership – where they
    tread society will follow.
    I have no doubt that this will continue to be a long, slow, but worthwhile journey. We
    need to make sure that individual projects or policies effectively integrate and balance
    environmental, social, and economic factors into decision making – it needs to be done
    continuously, in each place and in each year.
    Created by HISD Secondary Social Studies Curriculum. Adapted from: Burbridge, M. Everyone loves sustainable development, but does anyone
    know what it is? The Conversation US, 2018, https://theconversation.com/everyone-loves-sustainable-development-but-does-anyone-know-
    what-it-is-6209. Accessed 14 September 2018.

    Excerpt #2 – Cost-Related Advantages of Sustainability


    Clean technologies are usually more efficient thus reducing emissions and increasing
    productivity. Reducing raw materials use and increasing recycling and recovery can reduce
    production costs. These are opportunities for cost savings that may not become apparent even
    though the benefits accrue directly to the company, until the company is motivated either by
    regulation or concerns to improve sustainability performance to examine ways of addressing
    these problems and to invest in the necessary research.
    Created by HISD Secondary Social Studies Curriculum. Adapted from: Grieg-Gran, M. Financial Incentives for Improved Sustainability
    Performance: The Business Case and the Sustainability Dividend. Mining, Minerals and Sustainable Development, 2002,
    https://commdev.org/userfiles/files/937_file_grieg_gran.pdf. Accessed 14 September 2018.

    HISD Social Studies Curriculum 2018 World Geography Studies


    Sustainable Development Is Feasible

    Excerpt #3 – A New Economic Model is Needed


    What is needed is a new economic model that understands that development is not
    based only on economic growth but recognizes the natural limits of our planet.
    Natural resources and environmental services should come with a quantifiable, concrete
    price tag in order to change perceptions and the way markets function. The goal is to close the
    production loop – by using renewable energy inputs and generating no waste outputs. What
    would happen if we started to charge for the air or water that companies use?

    Excerpt #4 – The Role of the Government


    The role of the government in building a sustainable economy includes:
    1. Funding basic science needed for renewable energy and renewable resource
    technology.
    2. Using the tax system, government purchasing power and other financial tools to steer
    private money toward investment in renewable energy and other sustainability
    technologies and businesses.
    3. Investment in sustainability infrastructure, such as electric vehicle charging stations,
    mass transit, and waste management facilities.
    4. Regulating land use and other private behaviors to minimize destruction of ecosystems.
    5. Working with private organizations as well as state and local government to ensure that
    the transition is well-managed in the real world.
    6. Transferring sustainability technologies to the developing world.
    Created by HISD Secondary Social Studies Curriculum. Adapted from: Cohen, S., 2014, https://www.huffingtonpost.com/steven-cohen/the-role-
    of-government-in_b_4759621.html. Accessed 14 September 2018.

    HISD Social Studies Curriculum 2018 World Geography Studies

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