How do we wish to respond to the challenges that face the society and economy of the globalised world?Īccordingly, the strategy is extensive in its content, and not set in stone. Sustainable development is about a constructive dialogue over how we wish to live in the future. Sustainable development means to shape the future with visions, innovation and creativity, to venture into new things and to explore unknown paths. In this endeavour, everyone: employees and companies, trade unions and trade associations, institutions of higher education and research institutions, must join in shaping structural change. In fact, what is needed are innovation, creativity and technical know-how, in order to drive an environmentally friendly and resource conservative production and consumer pattern. However, it is not about an ethic of resignation. In terms of our society, this means that: every generation must solve its own problems and may not leave them for future generations.Įverybody decides on sustainability - those who invest, produce and consume. Only using what we produce and not living of the substance. Sustainability means: Only cutting down as many trees as can be regrown. Thinking for tomorrow and this from a global perspective: as an important stocktaking exercise, the Progress Report provides an overview of the way in which the principle of sustainable development is reflected in Federal Government policy as a whole.
This underlines the broad, constant political consensus in Germany regarding the importance of sustainability. Through a total of three extensive reports, this strategy has been continuously updated over two changes of government, most recently in the Progress Report adopted by the Federal Cabinet in February 2012. It is about the all-encompassing responsibility for an economically, ecologically and socially sound development for all generations. Therefore, in 2002, the German government submitted the document “Perspectives for Germany – Our Strategy for Sustainable Development”.įar beyond the current ecological challenge, the strategy serves as the guide for a comprehensive, sustainable political agenda. With "Agenda 21” 170 signatory states declared that they were prepared to implement the concept of sustainability at national level in all policy areas, with the involvement of both society and the economy.
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