Environmental Communication and Sustainability in Venezuelan Governmental Organizations

Abstract

During the last two decades, environmental communication has become a topic of interest that has been gaining momentum in various organizational contexts. All this, as a consequence of the establishment of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) promulgated by the United Nations General Assembly; as well as the publication of ISO 14001 and 14063 standards; where through strategic communication, organizations seek to share information and plan scenarios to promote and encourage the culture of sustainability and care for the environment. In light of the above, this research analyzes how environmental communication has been deployed within government agencies in Venezuela, and the purpose for which it is used. For this purpose, as a methodological resource, and following a qualitative research approach, a descriptive, non-experimental and transectional field research was carried out, where three public entities located in the Capital District were taken as the study universe. With the above, it was possible to generate an overview of how these organizations establish, through internal and external communication that is handled in their offices, strategies to encourage and raise awareness among the Venezuelan population in terms of sustainability and preservation of the environment, which would involve changes in citizen actions that would help reduce climate change and ensure the coexistence of man with all living beings that coexist on planet earth.