Who am I? CEO of:

In its 21st year as the Midlands business network with a focus on sustainable development as a key business issue.

Skanska - MEBC Board member

The only branch in the UK of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development.

Skanska – BCSD-UK Board member

© David Middleton BCSD-UK/MEBC 2012

Statistics Diameter

12,753 km (7,926 miles)

Rotation Period with respect to Sun (Length of Day)

24 hrs

Mass: 5.98x10^24 kilograms(6.5e21 tons)

Rotation Period with respect to stars (Sidereal Day)

23 hrs 56 min

Period about the Sun (Length of a Year)

365 days 5 hrs

Minimum Distance from Sun146 million km (91 million miles)

Our home

Statistics

It’s the only one we’ve got ….

….so you’d think we’d

take care of it!

If we continue to behave as we do now,

we are likely to go the way of

other civilisations

OlmecsSouth-central

America (Mexico) 1400 BCDemise – probably climate change

Anasazi or Ancestral Puebloans

USA (where New Mexico,

Arizona, Colorado, and

Utah meet)1200 BCDemise-

population explosion

NabateansJordan,

Canaan and Arabia

Sixth century BC

Demise – changing

trade patterns

AksumitesWhat is now

Ethiopia(home of the

Queen of Sheba)

First century AD

Demise –climate

change and over farming

ClovisAmerican10,000 BC

Demise – over hunting and/or

possible meteor hit

UsGlobal

up to 2012 and still going

BUT

Our damaging Impact On The Planet

Our damaging Impact On The Planet

WBCSD24th April 2012

Prof. Johan RockströmStockholm Resilience Centre

Human development in the Anthropocene

Atmospheric CO2 concentration

Etheridge et al. Geophys Res 101: 4115-4128

IGBP synthesis: Global Change and the Earth System, Steffen et al 2004

Northern hemisphere average surface temperature

IGBP synthesis: Global Change and the Earth System, Steffen et al 2004

Mann et al Geophys Res Lett 26(6): 759-762

Atmospheric N2O concentration

IGBP synthesis: Global Change and the Earth System, Steffen et al 2004

Machida et al Geophys Res Lett 22:2921-2925

Ozone depletion

IGBP synthesis: Global Change and the Earth System, Steffen et al 2004

JD Shanklin British Antarctic Survey

Natural climactic disasters

IGBP synthesis: Global Change and the Earth System, Steffen et al 2004

Fully exploited fisheries

IGBP synthesis: Global Change and the Earth System, Steffen et al 2004

FAOSTAT 2002 Statistical database

Tropical rainforest and woodland loss

IGBP synthesis: Global Change and the Earth System, Steffen et al 2004

Richards, the Earth as transformed by human action, Cambridge University Press

Species extinctions

IGBP synthesis: Global Change and the Earth System, Steffen et al 2004

Wilson, the Diversity of Life.

Report warns of global food insecurity as climate change destroys fisheriesPersian Gulf, Libya, and Pakistan expected to be hardest hit by decline in fish stocks in coming decades

•Suzanne Goldenberg, US environment correspondent

•guardian.co.uk, Monday 24 September 2012 08.00 BST

Our damaging Impact On The Planet

Now, you’d think if we were the

intelligent species we

think we are, in the 20 years I’ve been doing this stuff, we’d

have done better than

that.

The “Dostrich Theory”

The true story of the demise of the

dinosaurs

Accepted history

Incoming extra-terrestrial “lump”hits planet earth

Now – at last – the true story!

Greenhouse effect

Whew!!!!

Whew!!!!EAT LESS CABBAGE

Eat More Meat

Greenhouse effect

Whew!!!!

Definition: Dostrich– a dinosaur behaving like an

ostrich

Question: We can see the problems we confront – but are we preferring to behave like a dostrich – putting ourheads in the sand andhoping it might go away.

BBC October 31st 2006

The world cannot afford to wait before tackling climate change, the UK prime minister has warned.

A report by economist Sir Nicholas Stern suggests that global warming could shrink the global economy by 20%.

But taking action now would cost just 1% of global gross domestic product, the 700-page study says.

Tony Blair said the Stern Review showed that scientific evidence of global warming was "overwhelming" and its consequences "disastrous".

Dr Stewart Davies.Former Business Commissioner of

the now disbanded Sustainable Development Commission.

Speaking in BirminghamDecember 2009

“At a stroke of a pen, cheques of unheard of amounts were written virtually overnight to save the banks. Three million million pounds. So where is the same commitment to respond to the findings of Nick Stern?”

Gold News March 2008

And on average, the World Bank economists found, "governments spent an average of nearly 13% of GDP cleaning up their financial systems" as a result of the bail-out programs they tried to implement.

Priorities

Save the banks = 13% of GDP

Respond to climate change = 1% of GDP

What a load of Dostriches!

£4 + trillionS: UK Gov.

2012

Where we are now. 7b people; polluting; wasting; critical resources under ever increasing pressure – like water; demand for energy outstripping growth in production; many people without energy and clean water; rife poverty

2050

Where we need to be. 9b people living on our planet. With enough food and clean water for themall; poverty eradicated; everyone withaccess to energy and sanitation.S: (WBCSD)

The challengeThe tra

nsition process to a sustainable future

The estimated global value of the low carbon

environmentalproducts and services we need to get from where

we are to wherewe need to be.

£4 + trillionS: UK Gov.

Creating a different way of living. A sustainable way of living.

Potentially the biggest business opportunity since the industrial

revolution

The transition process to a sustainable future

Producing goods and services that enable us to live in a low carbon,

sustainable society

Producing goods and services that enable us to live in a low carbon,

sustainable society

That generates business for

businesses and creates jobs

Producing goods and services that enableus to respond to environmental challenges

That generates business for

businesses and creates jobs

Which creates wealth via taxes and

enables us to be a socially conscious, sustainable

society

Producing goods and services that enableus to respond to environmental challenges

That generates business for

businesses and creates jobs

Which creates wealth via taxes and

enables us to be a socially conscious, sustainable

society

Environmental

EconomicSocial

Environment – economic – social

= 3 “pillars” of sustainable

development

Green economy

For example, the value of offshore windfarms in the Phase 3 UK offshore wind industry development is estimated at well in excess of £110 billion. But all the kit is made in Germany and Holland leaving “only” installation and support for UK companies.

The same applies in the retrofit of the UK housing stock. BUT pvs are imported –mostly from China – giving the real value – the manufacturing value – of UK market development to overseas companies.

DECC DEFRA Education Transport No

11No 10 No 11

TheChancellor and

the Treasury simply do not

“get it”

The Energy Act 2011 includes provisions for the new 'Green Deal', which intends to reduce carbon emissions cost effectively by revolutionising the energy efficiency of British properties.The new innovative Green Deal financial mechanism eliminates the need to pay upfront for energy efficiency measures and instead provides reassurances that the cost of the measures should be covered by savings on the electricity bill.ECOA new Energy Company Obligation will integrate with the Green Deal, allowing supplier subsidy and Green Deal Finance to come together into one seamless offer to the consumer.

Birmingham As A Green CityWe aim to accelerate Birmingham’s transition to being one of the world’s leading green cities.We are setting up a Green Commission, led by the Cabinet Member for a Green, Safe and Smart City.

Small Group and we’re in

it

David Middleton

0121 693 8338

davidm@ebc-info.co.uk