REFLECTIVE JOURNAL ON SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

Assalamualaikum and hey!! Welcome back to my blog. So, today I have learnt on a new topic which is the Measurement, Indices and Indicators for Sustainable Development and SDG. So, what should be the indicators of development of a country? Basically, many people would say that a developed country would have good economic and social well-being. So, there are a various sampling of alternative measures of those two such as: Human Development Index Canadian Index of Well-Being Ecological Footprint Calvert-Henderson Quality of Life Indicators Genuine Progress Indicator Happy Planet Index Index of Sustainable Economic Welfare Sustainable Society Index Living Planet Index Measure of Domestic Progress Sustainable National Income Environmental Performance Index For a better understanding and more information, you may watch the video below. So now, we moved on to Sustainability Indicators. What does it mean? A sustainable development indicator (SDI) can generally be understood as a quantitative t...

Assalamualaikum and hey!! Welcome back to my blog. So, today I have learnt on a new topic which is the FieldWorks - In Campus Observation IIUM as Sustainable Campus: Students as Agent of Change. For your information, IIUM had won Green Gown Awards International as the first university in Malaysia which has ever received it. If you want to get more information on it, you may watch the video below. So, how sustainable is IIUM? Actually, there are many projects that IIUM had done in achieving a green campus. Some examples of the projects are Food Bank, CFS Sejahtera Room, Cat Shelter, Solar Panel, Recycling Station, Food Waste Composting, Zero Single-Use Plastic, UniRide Ecotour and many more. These examples showed that IIUM is very serious and concern in turning IIUM into a green campus and more 'Sejahtera'. As this topic is on the Students as Agent of Change, I would like to share some of the proposals of the projects of my classmates in helping IIUM to be more sustainable campu...

Assalamualaikum and hey!! Welcome back to my blog. So, today I have learnt on a new topic which is the Roles of Institutions for Sustainable Development (SDG 16 & 17). As we already know, in order to achieve all SDGs, first, we need to make sure of these 2 goals which are Goal 16 (Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions) and Goal 17 (Partnership for the Goals). Goal 16 promotes peaceful and inclusive for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels. Meanwhile, Goal 17 aims to strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development. But however, in the class today, we mainly focused on Goal 17 only. SDG 17 targets are broken down into five categories and each target has several indicators: Finance - Debt service as a proportion of exports of goods and services. Technology - Number of services and/or technology cooperation agreements and programmes...