The world people live in these days seeks new meanings for committeemen, development, environment, equality, life, love, health, sustainability, sustainable development (SD), power, preservation, progress, profit, and well-being, which are due to be formed and to be promoted only in the context in which everyone has the opportunity to participate and to have the voice heard during the process; according to the United Nations’ (UN) the Synergies amongst the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are due to be encountered in a cross-impact matrix that is born from the interaction of all the objectives considered to be accomplished (United Nations Development Program (UNDP), 2022); this cross-impact matrix represents an essential tool that facilitates the process of better understanding the manner in which the individuals and the entities can help in order to give life to the targets proposed, in the context in which sustainability requires committed actions from all involved parties in a society.
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Current High-Powered Challenges and High-Reaching Reforms: Moving to a New Economic Model Based on Green Energy, Digitalization, and Shock Resistance
Cristina Raluca Gh. Popescu (University of Bucharest, Romania) and Arturo Luque González (Universidad Técnica de Manabí, Ecuador & Observatorio Euromediterráneo de Espacio Público y Democracia URJC, Ecuador)
Copyright: © 2022
|Pages: 22
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-6684-6750-3.ch008
Abstract
Knowledge has the miraculous power to advance the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) at an international level, with the notable help provided by courageous reforms due to promoting a new economic model based on quality, green energy, digitalization, and shock resistance. Environmental sustainability relies on collaboration in achieving the SDGs and on communication in making the SDGs a way of living. The unforgettable challenges brought in today's society by the COVID-19 pandemic and the COVID-19 crisis posed even a greater pressure than before to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all, thus placing on pivotal positions the answers for the following questions: “What steps are due to be taken for ensuring affordable and clean energy?” “What role do sustainable cities and communities play in people's lives?” “What does climate action involve in terms of the partnerships for the global goals?” and “What does digitalization implicates in terms of supporting long term positive economic, social, and environmental links in the post-COVID-19 era?”