TITLE:
Accelerating SDGs for Sustainable Communities Using C2C Concept
AUTHORS:
Mohamed Zayed, Ola El-Monayeri, Salah El-Haggar, Nabil Mahmoud
KEYWORDS:
Sustainable Urban Communities, SDGs, Cradle to Grave, Cradle to Cradle
JOURNAL NAME:
Journal of Environmental Protection,
Vol.16 No.10,
October
29,
2025
ABSTRACT: The rapid leap of global urbanisation has strengthened the urgency for approaches that allow cities to balance growth with environmental, social and economic sustainability. Urban communities, as the initial units of urban transformation, provide scale at which sustainable strategies can be both planned and implemented. Transitioning toward resilient and well-organized urban communities is therefore crucial to address resource scarcity, waste generation, environmental degradation and the increased need for social organisation and improved quality of life. Within this framework, the cradle-to-cradle model offers a transformative alternative to linear models, sponsoring regenerative cycles in which resources are continuously reused, ecosystems are restored and human development exists with natural systems. The objective of this paper is to accelerate the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) using Cradle to Cradle (C2C) concept. It was found that C2C concept will include SDGs # 6 (Clean water and sanitation) and SDG #14 (Life below water) over and above the 9 SDGs incorporated according to Cradle to Grave (C2G) concept.