COP-30 and socio-environmental sustainability as a diffuse right to human dignity
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https://doi.org/10.23925/2179-3565.2025v16i4p89-101Keywords:
Sustainability, Climate, Diffuse rights, Transparency, GlobalizationAbstract
The concept of quality of life and sustainable indicators goes beyond the mere analysis of a nation's wealth, nor is it expressed solely by issues of collective human development, measured by the Human Development Index (HDI), requiring new practices of measurement and theoretical and practical understanding where the objective of the article mentions that the concept of socio-environmental sustainability goes beyond social human development and wealth, because it adds third-dimension diffuse values that affect the entire global community, which is interconnected by making or failing to make inclusive public policies to protect the environment, labor and ethnic minorities, considered as a commitment to indivisible, insurmountable and indeterminate global quality of life rights, where active participation by the whole of society, governments, and institutions at a global level is necessary as a way of resolving the impacts and effects of climate and planetary sustainability, as we will see at the Climate Conference (COP-30). The article's methodology is bibliographical, descriptive, analytical, and comparative, in which we sought to explore the themes and advances of the planet's diffuse rights found in national and international articles and in institutional bodies such as the United Nations (UN).
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