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Habitats • Habitats provides learning, campaigns and
consultancy services that promotes biodiversity sustainable development for private companies, NGOs and public institutions.
• We design and plan landscapes and green urban
spaces in order to increase their biological, experiential and functional value.
• The vision is to create synergy between human development and evolution of life.
Renewable energy for who?
Renewable energy for industry
Renewable energy for transport
Renewable energy for housholds
Renewable energy for human beings
Challenges when oil = food
Economic: when oil price rises
Security: less and harder to get
Practically: tackling of climate changes
‘Human energy’ today
EmissionsToxic chemicals
Water consumptionMonocultural destruction of habitats
(biodiversity loss)Intensive use of fossil fuels
+Unhealthy and unsustainable
The way forward?
• Grow with less fossils• Manage ressources • Protect and establish eco-systems • Change of cultures and habits• Prepare for hard desicions • Re-localisation • Establish food Co-ops • Seasonel based local food
The Economics of Ecosystems & Biodiversity (TEEB)
• G8+5 in 2007 “initiate the process of analysing the globaleconomic benefit of biological diversity, thecosts of the loss of biodiversity and thefailure to take protective measures versusthe costs of effective conservation.
= TEEB reports http://www.teebweb.org/
Published 2010
DefinitionBiodiversity“the variability among living organisms from all sources…and the ecological complexes of which they arepart; this includes diversity within species, between speciesand of ecosystems” (Convention on Biological Diversity)
Ecosystem services (ES)SupportingProvisioning RegulatingCultural
Millennium Ecosystem Assessment 2005
• Understanding, research and tool for decision making at all levels
TEEB
“The invisibility of biodiversity values has often encouraged inefficient use or even destruction of natural capital that is the foundation of our economies”
(TEEB Synthesis p.3)
Status of biodiversity and ecosystem services
• Over the past few hundred years, it is estimated that humans have increased the extinction rate of species by as much as a 1000-fold over the natural rate. Between 12% and 52% of species within well-studied groups such as birds or mammals are threatened with extinction (IUCN Redlist)
• “Overall, efforts to stembiodiversity loss have clearlybeen inadequate, with a growingmismatch between increasingpressures and slowing responses.”(Butchardt et al: Science 2010)