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SD for real
EAUC
Jonathon Porritt1st April 2009
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Forum For The Future
• A registered charity committed to accelerating the building of a sustainable way of life
• Solutions-oriented approach• Over 180 different partners from national, regional and
local government, higher education, and business• Green Futures magazine Mission:
To accelerate the building of a sustainablesustainable way of life by taking a positive solutions-oriented approach
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IPCC Consensus
Staying below2°C
means stabilisingat 450ppm CO2
which meansc. 80% cut
by 2050
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• Sea levels will rise twice as fast as official estimates predict. Possibly by as much as 1 metre by the end of the century
• Rising temperatures could kill off 85% of the Amazon Rainforest
• Modest warming could unleash a carbon “timebomb” from melting permafrost
• A failure to cut emissions could render half of the world uninhabitable.
Copenhagen Conference, March 2009
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Copenhagen Conference,March 2009
“Do the politicians understand just how difficult it could be? Just how devastating 4,5,6 degrees centigrade would be? I think not yet. Looking back, the Stern Review underestimated the risks and underestimated the damage from inaction”
(Nick Stern, 12/3/09)
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(Jonathon Porritt, Director of Friends of the Earth, Environment Now Magazine 1988)
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Taken from Evening Standard 15th January 2009
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Making the Connections
Global
systems
International
diplomacy
National
policy
Regional
drivers
UnitaryAuthorities
District Councils
Local
communities
Each one
of us
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EU Targets• 20% reductions in CO2 by 2020• 20% Renewables by 2020
Germany• 36 % reductions in CO2 by 2020
UK Climate Change Act• 26% cut by 2020; 80% by 2050• Independent Committee; annual report to Parliament• Carbon Reduction Commitment
Raising the bar
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• Climate Change Act
• Energy Performance of Buildings Directive
• Zero Carbon Homes (2016)
• Code for Sustainable Buildings
• Carbon Reduction Commitment
Sticks and Carrots
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Get a realistic priceon a tonne of CO2
just as fast as possible
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‘Realistic’ Prices
• EU ETS €14
• DEFRA £27
• Treasury £70
• Stern > £100
• Hansen > $250
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Climate change just one part of
sustainable development
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Sustainable Development as the CENTRAL ORGANIZING PRINCIPLE for everything we do
• as a BIG IDEA
• as an INTEGRATING FRAMEWORK
• as a TOOL KIT
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• Good Practice all over the place
• Universities that Count(BiTC Corporate Responsibility & Environment Indices)
• Universities in the Community
• SD across the Curriculum
• Mobilising for a different world(“Transition Universities”)
HE State of Play
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• From abundance to scarcity
• From growth to wellbeing
• From cornucopianism to frugality
• From high-carbon to near-zero carbon
• From global to global/local
The World Ahead