The Friedrich-Ebert-Foundation presents DW’s magazine Global Ideas. Global Ideas showcases people and projects whose innovative ideas are helping combat global warming: Ideas for a cooler world.
Shaping Sustainability
Sustainability has developed into one of the central concepts of our time. But while, with increasing usage, the concept of sustainability suffers from growing emptiness and overextension on the one hand, it is simultaneously increasingly deprived of an open debate on possible realisations. What does sustainable development mean exactly then and how can our theoretical sustainability triad—environment, economy, and society—be implemented in praxis?
The Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) has taken a critical approach to the concept of sustainability and is developing ideas on how the notion of sustainability in political practice can promote comprehensive social change. We are actively working on strengthening the social dimension of the sustainability concept and integrating social justice, solidarity and democracy as key elements of models of sustainable forms of society.
