sd for real eauc jonathon porritt 1 st april 2009
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SD for real
EAUC
Jonathon Porritt1st April 2009
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
IPCC Consensus
Staying below2°C
means stabilisingat 450ppm CO2
which meansc. 80% cut
by 2050
• 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
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)
Taken from Evening Standard 15th January 2009
Making the Connections
Global
systems
International
diplomacy
National
policy
Regional
drivers
UnitaryAuthorities
District Councils
Local
communities
Each one
of us
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
• Climate Change Act
• Energy Performance of Buildings Directive
• Zero Carbon Homes (2016)
• Code for Sustainable Buildings
• Carbon Reduction Commitment
Sticks and Carrots
Get a realistic priceon a tonne of CO2
just as fast as possible
‘Realistic’ Prices
• EU ETS €14
• DEFRA £27
• Treasury £70
• Stern > £100
• Hansen > $250
Climate change just one part of
sustainable development
Sustainable Development as the CENTRAL ORGANIZING PRINCIPLE for everything we do
• as a BIG IDEA
• as an INTEGRATING FRAMEWORK
• as a TOOL KIT
• 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
• 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