Our approach to Sustainable Development

 

The Americas Sustainable Development Foundation understands the need to revisit the fundamentals of our life support system. As human beings, we ought to recognize that the economy is subject to the society, and that the society is in turn dependent on the ecology that provides the basic life support, such as fresh air, water, food, energy and other natural resources that allow for us to survive and thrive on planet Earth.

 

ASDF aims to achieve sustainable development by helping communities throughout the Americas to promote and adopt responsible air, water, energy, food, and material extraction, production, use, and management and find practical solutions to satisfy human socio-economic needs in harmony with the environment. 

 

ASDF uses the Global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Agenda as the guiding framework for the work it does. It therefore adopts sustainable development as the organizing principle for cooperation. In this definition sustainable development encompasses economic development, social inclusion, as well as environmental sustainability. This framework calls for a holistic view and an integrated approach to achieve sustainable development throughout the Americas.