(MENAFN- Trend News Agency)
BAKU, Azerbaijan, November 11. Climate
awareness requires a map that identifies important inner
capacities, skills, and perspectives, Inner Development Goals
co-founder Erik Fernholm said during a panel discussion on
“Leveraging on Inner Development to Support the Transition to
Regenerative and Empowering Cities” Trend reports.
“We don't have a crisis of sustainability, we have a crisis of
behavior. We are responsible for where we have ended up, and that
realization is uncomfortable. It's an emotional process: if we
can't deal with negative emotions and hold onto them, we cannot
understand the situation. We get defensive, make excuses, and carry
on as before,” he said.
According to him, it is important to realize that our actions
create our challenges.
“It's a brutal truth, but it's encouraging: by realizing this,
we can see where we can make changes. When animal species disappear
every day and we all have microplastics in our bodies, that's not a
world to be proud of. No one wants that, and that says something
about us as human beings. We are striving for a meaningful life and
we want to invest in a better future,” he added.
Fernholm emphasized that this requires an internal goal map,
which shows what abilities are needed to emotionally recognize a
problem.
“It is important for us to think systematically, find new
perspectives, and act - both individually and collectively,” said
the co-founder.
The opening ceremony of the much-anticipated COP29 conference
has kicked off today at the Baku Olympic Stadium.
The highest-level event within COP29, the World Leaders Climate
Action Summit, will take place from November 12-13.
The decision to host COP29 in Azerbaijan was made at the COP28
plenary session held in Dubai on December 11 of last year.
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change,
signed in June 1992 at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, aims to
prevent dangerous human interference with the climate system. The
“COP” (Conference of the Parties) is the highest governing body
responsible for overseeing the convention's implementation.
A total of 198 countries participate in the convention. Unless
otherwise agreed, COP is held annually. The first COP took place in
Berlin in March 1995, with its secretariat headquartered in
Bonn.
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