Transcript Power Point Presentation: Klima i energia

Climate Change
Energy
Civil Society
Lloyd Narain
October 7 2009
micro micro small island
extremely vulnerable
vulnerability
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The sea is everywhere around us
Sea level rises
(under)currents change
Higher temperature, stronger
hurricanes, heavy wheater conditions
• Social and economic conditions
Consequences for
management of:
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Coastal zones
Marine environment
Built environment
Agricultural areas
Nature conservation
Energy sovereignty
Livelyhoods (soc.&econ.conditions)
Small island development
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Extra vulnerability
No place to hide
No room for error
Sustainability as a natural course
Climate change makes this much more
difficult
• Better act now than in future (costs)
Greenhouse gases (GHG)
cause climate change (CC)
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Established knowledge
Intergovernmental Panel on CC
EU
US
G8
Copenhagen December 2009
Consequences CC
• Sea water expands
• Ice caps both on North and South Pole
melting down
• Glaciers melting down
• Sea level rise
• Heavy rainfall in short period of time
• Climate changes everywhere on planet
How to deal with
consequences?
• Combine efforts to keep them in check
• In a sustainable context
• Prepare for bad weather, droughts, sea
level rise
• Stop oil addiction
Jacqueline McGlade, head of
the European Environment
Agency:
• The key to protecting and enhancing our
environment is in the hands of many, not the
few.
• To adapt efectively to challenges of CC..
means empowering citizens to engage
actively in improving their own environment,
using..new observation techniques and
innovative economic ideas…
Sustainable neighbourhoods
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Organize neighbourhood for this purpose
Create cool areas like parks, streets, spots
Allow rainwater to penetrate into the soil
Water catchments + collective cisterns
Energy saving at home, in shops etc.
Safe bicycle lanes and sidewalks
Free, clean, effective public transport
buildings/houses
• Climate friendly designs
• Existing buildings:adapt to climate (change)
• Design in context of built environment and
nature in neighbourhood
• Anchor roofs
• Cisterns
• Gardens with local flora (shade and cooling)
Business areas
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Firms in these areas join to:
Save energy
Generate clean energy
Manage waste: re-use, recycle,
composting and prevention programs
• Joint use of parking lots
Nature areas
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Coral reefs (absorb 30% of CO2)
Mangroves
Reforestation (local flora)
Stop deforestation (trees absorb 20%)
They all play their part in reducing CO2
and check consequences of CC as well
Common effort
• Government
• Business
• Civil society
• Technologists and other professionals
do their part but also need to reflect on
their role in society
Professionals act:
• People centered + empower people
• Small island scale
• In context of sustainable development:
balancing sustainable social, cultural
and economic development plus
environmental care
• Social-economic justice for all, now and
in future
Elements professional code
• Ethical code in context of sustainable
development, people centered, small
island limitations and opportunities
• Overcoming limits of purely business
approach
• All with the urgency to keep CC causes
and consequences in check
Professional contributions
among others:
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Decentralization of energy generation
End oil addiction
Prevent urban sprawl
Working with civil society to improve
quality of life and of environment
• Affordable but effective adaptations for
low income groups
Small islands urgency
• Reduce impacts of CC
• Sustainable livelyhoods always on the
agenda
• And keep remembering: there is no
place to hide and there is no room for
error
Climate Change:
adaptation and prevention
makes us real dwellers of this
planet and this island