Sustainable DevelopmentLectures in October, 2017

Sustainable Development Lectures in October, 2017

Global Population Growth and Sustainable DevelopmentDr. William Rees

Global Climate Change and Sustainable DevelopmentDr. Dale Bent

The Paris Climate Accord, Canada’s Plans and OpportunitiesDr. Tom Pedersen

Dr. Dale Bent, Environmentalist

Lecturer, VIU ElderCollege

Environmental AssociationsClimate Reality Leadership CorpsDavid Suzuki Foundation Founder, Global Action Plan CanadaFounder, EcoHelpers LondonGeorgia Strait Alliance

Topics for this Morning

Population growthClimate change and its impacts.What is Sustainable Development?UN Goals for Sustainable Development

We live in “Interesting Times” !

POPULATION GROWTH

World PopulationGrowth,Actual and Projected

HERE WE ARE !

Climate Change

Temperature Humidity

Wind Precipitation

ChangeabilitySeasonality

Climate Change=

Global Warming=

Increasing CO2 in the atmosphere

☠With Global Warming We Get …

Rising sea levels.

Acidification of seawater.

Failure of fisheries.

Spread of diseases and pests.

Failure of agriculture

Disruption of ecosystems.

Loss of biodiversity.

Deforestration and drought.

Destructive storms & floods.

There has never been a public policy problem as difficult and complicated as

climate change.

Why?

Criteria for Sustainable Development

2. Broad-based Social Inclusion

Good Governance

The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals

are aboutLiving Within Our Means

UN Sustainable Development Goals 2016-2030

A decent life for all.Goal 1. End extreme poverty.Goal 2. End hunger and promote sustainable agriculture.Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives for all.Goal 4. Ensure quality education and lifelong learning.Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower women and girls.Goal 6. Ensure availability of water and sanitation.Goal 7. Ensure access to affordable, sustainable modern energy.

UN Sustainable Development Goals 2016-2030

Life Prospects

Sustainable economic growth and decent work for all.Goal 9. Resilient infrastructure and sustainable industrialization.Goal 10. Reduce inequalities within and among countries.Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements sustainable.Goal 12. Sustainable consumption and production patterns.

UN Sustainable Development Goals 2016-2030

Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts.

Goal 14. Conserve the oceans and marine resources.

Goal 15. Protect and restore terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, and halt biodiversity loss.

UN Sustainable Development Goals 2016-2030

General Goals

Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies.

Goal 17. Strengthen means of implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals.

End Extreme Poverty

GDP per capita

Key Income per Person Population

More than $12,275 1.0 Billion

$4,000 to $12,275 2.5 Billion

$1,000 to $4,000 2.5 Billion

Less than $1,000 1.0 Billion

End extreme poverty

Subgoals:

“end poverty in all its forms everywhere”.

by 2030, all people are living above the line of extreme poverty

The Sustainable Goals

Reasons why extreme poverty persists.

• Bankruptcy of the government.• Bad economic policies or poor governance.• Physical geography, disease, or natural disasters.• Cultural barriers.• War.• Climate change.

Billions of people living in absolute poverty (less than $1.90 US /per day) in 1990 and 2013.

End hunger and promote sustainable agriculture.

Acute food-insecure populations, 2017

BC: 12.7 %

Nunavut: 45.2 %

PovertyDisease

Ensure healthy lives for all

under -5 mortality rates to below 25 per 1,000 live births, and maternal morality to below 70 per 1,000 live births. By 2030 ensure universal health coverage,

including treatment of many kinds of noncommunicable diseases.

The Importance of Breastfeeding.

Goal: 50% babies breast-fed by 2025

Ensure quality education and lifelong learning.

Subgoal:Universal coverage of quality education frompre-school through at least secondary education,

and then on to advanced skills training.

Establish gender equality and empower all women and girls.

Malala Yousafrai, Honorary CanadianUN Messenger of Peace

Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation.

Subgoals:Provide access to safe affordable water. Reduce water pollution and increase efficiency of use.

Ensure access to affordable, sustainable modern energy.

Subgoals:Provide electricity and safe cooking fuels.

Distribution systems for renewable fuels will need to be redeveloped.

Carbon-free, renewable, efficient power.

Build resilient infrastructure and promote sustainable industrialization.

Road networks, power grids, fibre grids, rail networks, ports, airports, bridges.

Purposeful green industrialization and innovation.

The Dutch and Rising Seas

Make cities and human settlements sustainable.

Subgoals:

Partnerships of cities and governments to promote decarbonization and sustainable development.

Reduce deaths and displacement from natural disasters.

BiodiversityOceans, Lakes, Rivers, Lands,

Forests, Deserts, Mountains, Fish,

Birds, Plants, Animals, Bacteria, Insects, Protozoa,

ZooPlankton

Conserve the oceans and marine resources.

Reduce over-fishing, ocean acidification, degradation of marine and coastal ecosystems, and pollution.

Canada andBiodiversity

50% ?

Personal and Political Actions to Reduce CO2 Emissions !!

Textbook

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