Αειφορία και βιωσιμότητα στις Ένοπλες Δυνάμεις: επίτευξη και διατήρηση ενσωμάτωσης
Sustainable development practices in the Armed Forces: achieving and maintaining an inclusive behavior
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Αειφορία ; Βιώσιμη ανάπτυξη ; Ένοπλες Δυνάμεις ; Επιχειρησιακή ικανότητα ; Στόχοι βιώσιµης ανάπτυξης ; Κυκλική οικονομίαAbstract
In accordance to the European Green Deal, actions must be taken regarding the transformation of the public and private sector that will reduce their environmental footprint. The purpose of this dissertation is to provide a perspective of such a transformation within the Armed Forces which due to the multi-use of their equipment, as far as Greece is concerned, the effect to the environment is considered severe. This is because this equipment is based in non-friendly to the environment technologies. Still and taking under account worldwide practices that have been identified as successful after their implementation phase, these managed to project substantial decrease of the environmental footprint for the Armed Forces of several countries. Now is the time that best practices get to be implemented in the occasion of our country, which as a member of the European Union must achieve its goals to an overall continental decrease of 55% CO2 emissions reduction by 2030.
The scope of this dissertation is to identify how sustainable can the Armed Forces be, by implementing practices that will allow them to become a modern, efficient and developed organization within both the public and private sectors. This practice will result in transforming them to a renewed institute with a sustainable perspective which will provide resources and fund saving for the purpose of modern arms procurement which will also be sustainable by adopting ‘‘green’’ technologies. The overall outcome will see the Armed Forces maintaining a thoroughly organized and operationally capable structure.