Sustainability Policies
The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) is the global authority that sets the environmental agenda. According to it, environmental sustainability involves making life choices that ensure an equal, if not better, way of life for future generations. Environmental sustainability aims to improve the quality of human life without putting unnecessary strain on the earth’s supporting ecosystems. It is about creating an equilibrium between consumerist human culture and the living world, by living in a way that doesn’t waste or unnecessarily deplete natural resources.
The EUYO is committed to fully understanding and attempting to minimize its negative impacts upon the environment through an Environmental Sustainability Policy.
This Policy is designed to help promote a more environmentally sustainable future with respect to all effects caused by the EUYO’s work, by establishing the principles that will guide the EUYO’s work in the area of environmental sustainability.
These principles are Learn, Do and Encourage:
I) LEARN – ensuring awareness of the need for environmental sustainability and knowledge about it, by the EUYO community as well as, where possible, collaborators, stakeholders and partners.
II) DO – defining, implementing and regularly reviewing a range of realistic practices in the EUYO’s daily activities that contribute to promoting environmental sustainability.
III) ENCOURAGE – encouraging all organizations and individuals with whom the EUYO interacts to consider the importance of measures to promote environmental sustainability.