Transcript Renewable energy for who?

Renewable Energy
Rasmus Vincentz
Habitats
Youth Forum - Vilnius
April 2012
Habitats
www.habitats.dk
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
Global greenhouse gas emissions
Greenhouse gas emissions
Source: IPCC 2007
We are eating
OIL
Challenges when oil = food
Economic: when oil price rises
Security: less and harder to get
Practically: tackling of climate changes
‘Human energy’ today
Emissions
Toxic chemicals
Water consumption
Monocultural destruction of habitats
(biodiversity loss)
Intensive use of fossil fuels
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Unhealthy and unsustainable
The way forward?
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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
Leading by lust
Rene Redzepi – Restaurant NOMA
Re-enter the flow of ressources
Cycles:
Carbon
Nutrient
Water
Energy
Genetic
WWF Living Planet report 2010
Can you imaging nature thrive
where we live?
The Economics of Ecosystems &
Biodiversity (TEEB)
• G8+5 in 2007
“initiate the process of analysing the global
economic benefit of biological diversity, the
costs of the loss of biodiversity and the
failure to take protective measures versus
the costs of effective conservation.
= TEEB reports
http://www.teebweb.org/
Published 2010
Definition
Biodiversity
“the variability among living organisms from all
sources…and the ecological complexes of which they are
part; this includes diversity within species, between species
and of ecosystems”
(Convention on Biological Diversity)
Ecosystem services (ES)
Supporting
Provisioning
Regulating
Cultural
Millennium Ecosystem Assessment 2005
TEEB
• Understanding, research and tool for decision
making at all levels
“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)
Examples of Ecosystem Services
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 stem
biodiversity loss have clearly
been inadequate, with a growing
mismatch between increasing
pressures and slowing responses.”
(Butchardt et al: Science 2010)