Towards Sustainable Living: From COP21 to COP26 and beyond

Copyright © 2022 by the author(s). Published by Bilingual Publishing Co. This is an open access article under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) License. (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/). The publication of the Brundtland report in 1987 set the new agenda for world business when it presented the universally recognized definition of sustainable development that fulfills the present demands without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs . Since then, sustainability has been much debated at all forums, and various studies show that we are overstressing our mother planet by stretching the limits of our lifestyle. If the lifestyle does not change, the planet’s life will be at the most significant disaster risk. The publication of the Brundtland report brought the word sustainability into the political arena at the world level that, is considered a core pillar in economic development. Every year United Nations host a Climate Change Conference or simply COP. In every COP, the world leaders present the recent progress and the future pledges to meet the UN agenda on sustainability. The COP21 held in Paris 2015 was one of the remarkable events that had set many KPI for progressing towards sustainable living. The main focus in COP21 was given to two primary issues: temperature rise and funding resources to developing and under-developed nations. The critical temperature limit was recommended to set at 1.5 °C or 2 °C above preindustrial levels. It was also urged that the developed nations award appropriate funding to developing countries potentially vulnerable to sealevel rise and expectedly more severe weather events . The pledge made for zero net greenhouse gas emissions was targeted during the second half of the 21 century. However, it was reiterated that if the temperature increase is required to be limited to 1.5 °C, zero net emission aspiration should be achieved from 2030 to 2050 . Towards the end of 2021, there were two beliefs about the climate action and the progress on COP21: • The Paris Agreement is working as it was aspired, doing what it is supposed to do and what it can do as an