Reflective Log
- Created by: Lauren
- Created on: 24-04-15 11:13
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- Sustainability
- Society
- Key Issues
- Poverty: Health
- Relevant Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)
- Child Mortaility
- Disease
- Underweight children
- Sanitation
- Maternal & reproductive health
- Relevant Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)
- Equity
- Inequality between genders
- Corruption
- Regional Disparity
- Enforced under-development
- Education
- Population
- Global population passes 7 billion between 2011 and 2012
- Website
- Consumption
- "if current population & consumption trends continue, humanity will need the equivalent of two Earths to support it by 2030" (Global Footprint Network, 2012)
- World Overshoot Day??
- Poverty: Health
- Why has this happened?
- Models of development
- Poor under-standing of poverty
- Religious and cultural traditions
- What can be done?
- Health Campaigns
- Improved Sanitation
- Access to clean water
- Vaccinations
- Funding of schools
- Increasing food production
- Green Economy
- Awareness
- What is being done?
- Every Woman Every Child
- Aims to mobilize and intensify global action to improve health of woman and children
- Beyond 2015
- Aims to build a framework for after 2015
- Every Woman Every Child
- Sustainable Development Goals by 2030
- Provide quality education & life-long learning opportunities
- Healthy lives for all
- End hunger, improve nutrition & sustainable agriculture
- End poverty everywhere
- Gender equality
- Sustainable and sanitary water for all
- Sustainable energy
- Inclusive & sustainable economic growth
- Sustainable infrastructure & industriali-zation
- Reduced inequality between countries
- Sustainabl eand safe cities
- Sustainable consumption
- Tackle climate change
- Sustainable use of oceans, seas & marine resources
- Protect & promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, halt desertifi-cation, land degradation and biodiversity loss
- Achieve peaceful and inclusive societies
- Improve impletation of sustainable development
- What can businesses do? Action Areas
- Responsi-bility (CSR)
- Community Engagement
- Employment: Employ locals
- Training of local staff
- Knowledge Exchange
- Real Oppportunity
- Key Issues
- Environment
- Water
- Lack of drinking water & Sanitation
- Water resources are becoming scarce
- Water withdrawals for irrigation represent 66% of total
- Increased water use = effect on aquatic ecosystems
- Contributing factors
- Poor management
- Population growth
- Urbanisation
- Intensive agriculture
- Changes in lifestyle
- What is being done?
- Hydrating Humanity is a faith-based non-profit organization that works
primarily in East Africa partnering with local people
- Water provided for all
- Sanitary water
- Hydrating Humanity is a faith-based non-profit organization that works
primarily in East Africa partnering with local people
- Virtual Water
- This is the water used to produce the food we eat
- Some countries have seriously considered the ramifications (Israel)
- Carbon
- Biodiversity
- Biodiversity loss = reduced efficiency by which ecological communities.
- Capture biologically essential resources
- Produce Biomass, decompose & recycle biologically essential nutrients
- Biodiversity increases the stability of ecosystem functions
- The impact of biodiversity is nonlinear & saturating, therefore change accelerates as biodiversity loss increases
- Diverse communities are more productive
- Research
- The impacts of diversity loss on ecological processes might be sufficiently large to rival the impacts of other global drivers of environmen- tal change
- Diversity effects grow stronger with time
- Maintaining multiple ecosystem process at multiple places & times require higher levels of biodiversity
- The ecological consequence of biodiversity loss can be predicted from evolutionary history
- Global biodiversity action- Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)
- Opened for signitures at Earth Summit 1992
- To date there are 193 Parties
- Seen as key international instrument for sustainable development
- Goal 1: Conservation of biodiversity
- Goal 2: Sustainable use of Biodiversity
- Goal 3: fair & equitable sharing of the benefits from the use of genetic resources
- Key contributer: Deforestation
- Forests
- Value of Forests
- Existence
- Consumptive
- Productive
- Biodiversity Protection
- Recreactional, scientific, educational & Scenic values
- Environmen- tal
- Watershead protection
- Regulating Macro & Local climates
- Storing/ cycling essential nutrients
- Threats to Forests
- Logging
- Plantations: rubber
- Agriculture
- Cattle Rearing
- Fuelwood collection
- Development/ Over population
- Poverty
- Cocaine Production
- Climate Change
- Value of Forests
- Biodiversity loss = reduced efficiency by which ecological communities.
- Water
- Production + Consumption
- Definition: Reducing waste & Emissions without sacrificing quality of life
- Raw Materials
- Use less: reduce costs & impact
- Less Impact: Reduce travel time?
- Recyclable: Substitute materials so they can be recycled
- Seven Deadly Wastes
- Over- production
- Waiting
- Transport
- Motion
- Over- Processing
- Inventory
- Defects
- Retail
- Packaging: Can you protect & present product with less material
- Distribution: Reduce distance travelled?
- Use
- Durability: Easier to repair
- Consumable: Increase lifespan?
- Marketing: Use lifespan factors to market product
- Human Factors: can design help consumers use product more sustainably
- Manufacture
- More efficient use of natural resources/ recycling of resources
- Reduce or recyle waste
- Simplification- simpler designs = fewer resources
- Reduce energy use/ more energy efficent
- Lean production
- Eliminating waste from manufactur- ing process
- End of Life
- Reuse
- Recycle
- Reduce amount to landfill
- Carbon + Energy
- Climate Change
- Sea Levels
- Tempertures rise =
- Sea absorbs heat from the atmoshere & expands =
- Sea level rises
- Sea absorbs heat from the atmoshere & expands =
- Tempertures rise =
- Glaciers
- Entire Western Antarctic ice sheet melts =
- Sea levels rise by about 3.2 metres
- Entire Western Antarctic ice sheet melts =
- Flooding
- Major floods used to occur every 100 years on average
- May now be every 10-20 years
- Flooding season may become longer
- Now may flood in places it has never flooded before
- Major floods used to occur every 100 years on average
- Other effects likely to happen
- Less frosty days & cold spells
- Increase in heat waves & hot spells
- Greater risk of drought in continental areas
- Increase in extreme precipitation events
- Hurricanes more intense
- More intense Asian summer monsoon
- Religional variation in temperature changes
- Increases higher over land & northern hemisphere
- Increases over North Atlantic will be small
- Sea Levels
- Policy & Action
- Types of energy activity that communities can do
- 1. Generating Energy
- 2. Reducing energy use
- 4. Managing energy
- 3. Purchasing energy
- Kyoto Protocol
- International agreement linked to the United Nations Frameword Convention on Climate Change
- Internationally binding emission reduction targets
- First commitment period 2008-2012
- Commited to reduce GHG to an average of 5% against 1990 levels
- "Doha Amendment to the Koyoto Protocol" was adopted in Dec 2012
- Second commitment period 2013-2020
- Commited to reduce GHG emissions by at least 18% below 1990 levels
- Types of energy activity that communities can do
- What can businesses do?
- Carbon Reporting
- Climate Change
- Society
- Sustainable Development Goals by 2030
- Provide quality education & life-long learning opportunities
- Healthy lives for all
- End hunger, improve nutrition & sustainable agriculture
- End poverty everywhere
- Gender equality
- Sustainable and sanitary water for all
- Sustainable energy
- Inclusive & sustainable economic growth
- Sustainable infrastructure & industriali-zation
- Reduced inequality between countries
- Sustainabl eand safe cities
- Sustainable consumption
- Tackle climate change
- Sustainable use of oceans, seas & marine resources
- Protect & promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, halt desertifi-cation, land degradation and biodiversity loss
- Achieve peaceful and inclusive societies
- Improve impletation of sustainable development
- Manufacture
- More efficient use of natural resources/ recycling of resources
- Reduce or recyle waste
- Simplification- simpler designs = fewer resources
- Reduce energy use/ more energy efficent
- Lean production
- Eliminating waste from manufactur- ing process
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