Introduction to Sustainable Development

 

Bismillah,

In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.

 

Today I will share with all of you what i have learnt in my first UNGS 1201 lesson. Actually, at first, I have no idea of what is this subject's about, what I will learn in this subject, why we need to take this subject and so on. So during the pre-reg, I just randomly choose the section that my friend suggest to me or what my hand choose. Of course because I don't know how to used it. But, suddenly my another friend said that her senior suggest if you are an engineering student, it is better to choose the lecturer from Kuliyyah of Engineering (KOE). Since Dr 'Atiah is my mahallah's fellow, I choose to join her class.

 

Amazing.

This is one word from me to describe her class. I admire how she make our class livelier and more interesting. For me, the way she teach, make me understand more about what we learnt.

 

From our first lesson, I learnt about three concept in sustainability measurement. The first is living with certain limits of earth capacity to maintain life. Second, understanding the interconnections among economy, society and environment. Third, maintaining a fair distribution of resources and opportunity for this generation and the next.

 

 

I also learnt the triple bottom line that consists of three element which is people, profit and planet. This three element is related to each other. If one of these is having a problem, it will affected another two. The triple bottom line aims to measure the social equity (people), economic prosperity (profit) and environmental (planet). 

 

In 2015, United Nation (UN) made a program with collection of 17 interlinked goals which is known as Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). Their mission is to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all and intended to be achieve by 2030. Dr 'Atiah had assigned our class to make a research about one of this goals by group. My group choose the first goal in SDG which is no poverty. There are still many people who struggling for their daily necessities in order to survive in this world. We related this goal to the current issue in our world right now which is Pandemic Covid-19. In Malaysia, due to this pandemic, population of B40 is increased. Many people lost their job during this pandemic. For sure, they are struggling to afford their basic needs. For this goal, we can conclude that poverty is the main problem that can stop the development of a country. That is why no poverty is one of goal that included in SDG.