Editing Standard of living (section)

{{Short description|Measure of income, comfort and services}}
{{Redirect|Living standard|normative standards implemented as living documents|Living document}}

'''Standard of living''' is the level of [[income]], [[comfort]]s and services available to an individual, community or [[society]]. A contributing factor to an individual's [[quality of life]], standard of living is generally concerned with objective metrics outside an individual's personal control, such as [[economic]], societal, political, and environmental matters.<ref>{{cite OED|standard of living|5785495729}}</ref> Individuals or groups use the standard of living to evaluate where to live in the world, or when assessing the success of society.

In international law, an "adequate standard of living" was first described in the [[Universal Declaration of Human Rights]] and further described in the [[International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights]]. To evaluate the impact of policy for [[sustainable development]], different disciplines have defined '''''Decent Living Standards''''' in order to evaluate or compare relative living experience.<ref name=":1">{{Cite book |url=https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg3/ |title=IPCC Sixth Assessment Report Climate Change 2022: Mitigation of Climate Change |publisher=[[Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change]] |year=2022 |chapter=Supplementary Material I Chapter 5: Social Science Primer |chapter-url=https://report.ipcc.ch/ar6wg3/pdf/IPCC_AR6_WGIII_FinalDraft_Chapter05_SupplementaryMaterial.pdf}}</ref>

During much of its use in economics, improvements to standard of living were thought to be directly connected to [[Growth imperative|economic growth]], as well as increase amount of energy consumption and other materials. However, the [[IPCC Sixth Assessment Report]] found that literature demonstrates that improvements in [[sustainable development]] practices as well as changes in technological efficiency and energy production and use, allow for a Decent Living Standard for all people without [[fossil fuels]] and ~15.3 GJ per capita by the end of the 21st century.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |url=https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg3/ |title=IPCC Sixth Assessment Report Climate Change 2022: Mitigation of Climate Change |publisher=[[Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change]] |year=2022 |chapter=Chapter 5: Demand, services and social aspects of mitigation |chapter-url=https://report.ipcc.ch/ar6wg3/pdf/IPCC_AR6_WGIII_FinalDraft_Chapter05.pdf}}</ref> This allows for [[climate change mitigation]] by [[demand reduction]] as well as other [[sustainable development]] practices.<ref name=":0" />