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Power of Social Media
Rajendra M. ShendeUnited Nations Environment Programme
Can it be leveraged to
Protect and sustain the Natural Capital ?
AMS, Hanoi24 May 2011
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THE NEWS THE NEWS THE NCOPENHGEN CLIMATE FUNDCANCUN CLIMATE FUND NAGOA BIODIVERSITY TARGETS BONN PREPERATORY MEETING MONTREAL YET ANOTHER MEETING DURBAN NEXT MEETING NEW DELHI TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER MADRID IPCC REVIEW OF FAILURE BONN NATIONAL INVENTORY COPENHAGEN MEETING HIJACKED CANCUN WHAT WAS ACHIEVED LATE NIGHT NEGOATIATIONS LULUFAC NAMA MILENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS PART ACHIVED LOT TO BE DONE RIO+20 KYOTO+15 STOCKHOLM+40 DEFORRESTATION DESSERTIFICATION EMISSION TRADING CDM COP MOP COP MOP CERS TAR FAR COPENHGEN CLIMATE FUND CANCUN CLIMATE FUND NAGOA BIODIVERSITY TARGETS BONN PREPERATORY MEETING MONTREAL YET ANOTHER MEETING DURBAN NEXT MEETING NEW DELHI TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER MADRID IPCC REVIEW OF FAILURE BONN NATIONAL INVENTORY COPENHAGEN MEETING HIJACKED CANCUN WHAT WAS ACHIEVED LATE NINGHT NEGOATIATIONS LULUFAC NAMA MILENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS PART ACHIVED LOT TO BE DONE RIO+20 KYOTO+15 STOCKHOLM+40 DEFORRESTATION DESSERTIFICATION EMISSION TRADING CDM COP MOP COP MOP CERS TAR FAR OBAMA ARRIVES USA NON RATIFICATION RUSSIA CANADA
GHG emissions increased by 25% from 1990 to 2004
Total GHG emissions
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1970 1980 1990 2000 2004
GtCO2-eq/yr
…could increase by 90% by 2030
Increase of atmospheric carbon dioxide
Carbon dioxide levels have risen by 30% in the last 200 years.
The IPCC projects that, if unchecked, atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrationswill range from 650 to 970 ppm by 2100.
2000-about 365 ppm
GHG Emissions In Future
2010 Insurance Losses
$37 billion from 2009
average $35 billion for 10 years
950 with 90 percent related to
weather
Ref: Munich Re, the world’s biggest reinsurer.
Text Books to be amended Historical Action
CFCs now in History Books
“Perhaps the single most successful international environmental agreement to date has been the Montreal Protocol,
in which states accepted the need to phase out the use of ozone-depleting
substances”
“We the Peoples: the Role of the United Nations in the 21st Century”, 2000, pg 56
Montreal Protocol is Working
Montreal Protocol is Working
Millenium Development Goals……Report of UN 2007
……20 years after the 20 years after the Montreal Protocol Montreal Protocol
signed signed Demonstrates what can Demonstrates what can
be achieved when be achieved when countries act together countries act together
and in concerted way to and in concerted way to resolve global resolve global
environmental problemsenvironmental problems
UNPARALLEL COOPERATIONFinancial Assistance to Developing Countries
2010 Antarctic Ozone Hole
• The white line at 220 DU shows the edge of the ozone hole– We call this low ozone
region the ozone hole because it is roughly circular (like a donut hole), and it suggests a hole (although 100% of the column is not lost).
Image from ozonewatch.gsfc.nasa.gov
2010 Antarctic Ozone Hole
• Before 1979, values of 220 DU were not observed over Antarctica.
• On this image, the ozone hole covers a surface area of 22.2 million square kilometers (N. America = 9.5 M mi.2)
• 118 DU minimum on 1 October 2010
• 2010 is the smallest ozone hole since 1990 and the highest minimum since 1988 (except for 2002- major warming).
• 2010 is a below average ozone hole for these current high ODS levels.
Image from ozonewatch.gsfc.nasa.gov
Bail out by the Bail out by the Montreal Protocol…Montreal Protocol…
5 to 6 times the emissions 5 to 6 times the emissions reduction target under the Kyoto reduction target under the Kyoto
ProtocolProtocol
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BURDEN
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19921987 1997
Ref: OzonAction
Social & economic Cost
TECHNOLOGY FOSTERING: EFFICIENCY GAINS
Experience of Montreal Protocol
BENEFITS
Year
Latin America & the Caribbean
Africa West Asia
Asia & the Pacific
Regional Delivery
Europe & Central Asia
ROAP
ROA
ROWAROLAC
ECA
MLF
Regional networks
OzonAction Programme
LET US BE RESPONSIVE TO EMERGING CHANGES
It Is not the strongest It Is not the strongest species species
that survive, that survive, nor the most intelligent, nor the most intelligent,
but the ones but the ones most reponsive to most reponsive to
changechange
- Charles Darwin- Charles Darwin
January 27, 2011|CNNSocial media @ the front line in Egypt As in Tunisia, the protest movement in Egypt is taking advantage of social media to communicate, inform and organize. Despite attempts to block Twitter, Facebook and other sites (the government denies it was responsible), a Facebook page devoted to Friday's planned protests had more than 80,000 followers as of 2 p.m. ET Thursday, compared with some 20,000 the previous day.
WHERE are WE headed ?
If we do not change If we do not change our directionour direction
We are likely to end up We are likely to end up Where we are headedWhere we are headed
-A Chinese -A Chinese proverbproverb
Natural Disasters
HCFCs production-Global (in ODP tonnes)
The increasing trend of HFC demand up until 2018, with China driving global demand. The 900,000 tons that will make up
global HFC demand in 2018 is equivalent to over 2 Gt CO2 eq
IT Enabled Low Carbon Economy
There are still tasks that lie There are still tasks that lie ahead ahead
Keep Walking….Keep Walking….
--Mongolian NomadMongolian Nomad
[email protected]/ozonaction