How much we hear and read about the sustainability expression lately, right? In fact, the story begins in the 1700s. I will not talk about the history of sustainability in this article, in this article I would like to briefly talk about which environmental issues the concept of sustainability focuses on.

In its most general form, sustainable development goals are; It covers global issues such as human rights, poverty, climate change and much more. It aims at a fairer, greener and inclusive world.

Especially recently, ‘reducing our carbon footprint’ or ‘striving to adopt a more environmentally friendly life’ are general approaches to the environmental dimension of sustainability.

Under these main approaches, there are some scientific themes that need to be resolved, in other words, removed from being a problem. For example, it can be called ‘Climate Change’ or the climate crisis. Since our planet has existed, it has been in constant ecological change and our world is warming up day by day. However, especially after the industrial revolution and in the nineties and 2000s, with the acceleration of the industry, besides the heating due to natural resources, the development of the industry and its spread to many areas began to bring the heat of our planet to dangerous dimensions. In fact, the story of focusing on environmental sustainability begins here..