Caring for earth

 CARING for EARTH Remember it is your home  www.steria.com/sustainability

 Welcome to a new WORLDVIEW Looking at the planet as your HOME and something you should CARE for may seem odd to you. Yet, this story will show you how much sense it makes It is as much the story of your life, as it is the story of our planet. y p © Photo: Photodisc Singles  www.steria.com/sustainability 11.05.2010 2 Climate change

 The journey starts in your MIND  www.steria.com/sustainability 11.05.2010 3 Climate change

 It starts by taking a WIDER perspective.  www.steria.com/sustainability 11.05.2010 4 Climate change © Photo: tsintsin on flickr.com

It starts by looking outside the comforts of your  family home and neighbourhood neighbourhood.  www.steria.com/sustainability 11.05.2010 5 Climate change © Photo: Scanpix / ImageSource

It starts by looking at what’s happening  with our planet Earth Earth.  www.steria.com/sustainability 11.05.2010 6 Climate change © PHOTO: Scanpix / Corbis

 First of all, you need to remember THIS.  www.steria.com/sustainability 11.05.2010 7 Climate change

 The food you eat…  www.steria.com/sustainability 11.05.2010 8 Climate change © Photo: Luth / Fancy

 The fresh water you drink…  www.steria.com/sustainability 11.05.2010 9 Climate change © Photo: Luth / Image Source

 The air you breathe…  www.steria.com/sustainability 11.05.2010 10 Climate change © Photo: Luth / MoodBoard

 The building material that gives you shelter…  www.steria.com/sustainability 11.05.2010 11 Climate change © Photo: Luth / ?

 The energy you use…  www.steria.com/sustainability 11.05.2010 12 Climate change © Photo: Luth / Corbis

 Are all products of this living ECOSYSTEM.  www.steria.com/sustainability 11.05.2010 13 Climate change © PHOTO: Scanpix / Corbis

 All the things we take for GRANTED.  Might not be there for our children  Because we have forgotten that resources are SCARCE.  www.steria.com/sustainability 11.05.2010 14 Climate change © Photo: Scanpix / Corbis

 We see evidence of our MINDLESSNESS… across the globe. g  www.steria.com/sustainability 11.05.2010 15 Climate change © Photo: NASA

 Earth’s natural resources are being depleted… at record rates.  www.steria.com/sustainability 11.05.2010 16 Climate change © Photo: NASA

 Crude Over the past 50 years, we have changed ecosystems more extensively than in any period in human history.  www.steria.com/sustainability 11.05.2010 17 Six forces of change SOURCE: World Resource Institute, Ecosystems and Human Well-being: Synthesis, 2005 PLACE: Oil-sand field in Canada © PHOTO: Scanpix / AFP / David Boily

 75% of the natural ecosystems on which we depend y p have already been degraded.  www.steria.com/sustainability 11.05.2010 18 Six forces of change SOURCE: WWF, A roadmap for a lving planet, 2009 © PHOTO: Luth / Fancy

 50% of all the forests that once covered the Earth, , have been cleared for farmland and urban development.  www.steria.com/sustainability 11.05.2010 19 Six forces of change SOURCE: World Resources Institute, World Resources 1998–99 © PHOTO: Luth / Fancy

 25% of species is heading for extinction by 2050.  www.steria.com/sustainability 11.05.2010 20 Climate change SOURCE: Wildlife in a changing world, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), 2008 EVENT: Seabird caught in fishnet

 In th I the next 40 years t the pressure on Earth’s ecosystems will increase dramatically  www.steria.com/sustainability 11.05.2010 21 Climate change

 2 billion Expected increase in world population.  www.steria.com/sustainability 11.05.2010 22 Climate change SOURCE: UN Population Division/DESA, Press release: World Population to exceed 9 billion by 2050, March 11, 2009 © PHOTO: Scanpix / Corbis / Alan Schein Photography

 200% World demand for energy is expected to more than DOUBLE.  www.steria.com/sustainability 11.05.2010 23 Six forces of change SOURCE: European Comission, World Energy Technology Outlook to 2050, 2007 PLACE: Chicago © PHOTO: Scanpix / Folio / Tor Lindberg

 300% The number of cars in the world is expected to TRIPLE. p  www.steria.com/sustainability 11.05.2010 24 Six forces of change SOURCE: 50 by 50: Global Fuel Economy Initiative, 2009: FIA Foundation, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), International Energy Agency, International Transport Forum (ITF) © PHOTO: Pixtal

 400% The size of the world economy (GDP) is expected to QUADRUPLE.  www.steria.com/sustainability 11.05.2010 25 Six forces of change SOURCE: European Comission, World Energy Technology Outlook to 2050, jan. 2007 PLACE: Ship near harbor in Singapore © PHOTO: Masterfile / R. Ian Lloyd

 More and more developing countries are becoming industrialized  www.steria.com/sustainability 11.05.2010 26 Six forces of change

 1,5 1 5 billion Projected population in China. China is expected to become the world's LARGEST economy. world s  www.steria.com/sustainability 11.05.2010 27 Six forces of change SOURCE: Goldman Sachs, The N-11: More Than an Acronym" - Goldman Sachs study of N11 nations, Global Economics Paper No: 153, March 28, 2007. © PHOTO: AFP / Liu Jin

 1,6 1 6 billion Projected p p j population in India. India is expected to become the THIRD largest economy in the world.  www.steria.com/sustainability 11.05.2010 28 Six forces of change SOURCE: Goldman Sachs, The N-11: More Than an Acronym" - Goldman Sachs study of N11 nations, Global Economics Paper No: 153, March 28, 2007. © PHOTO: Reuters / Stringer / India

 The KEY point is…  www.steria.com/sustainability

 2xEarths 2xEarths’ By 2050 we will be using TWICE as many natural resources as the Earth can replenish.  www.steria.com/sustainability 11.05.2010 30 Six forces of change SOURCE: WWF, A roadmap for a lving planet, 2009 © PHOTO: Scanpix / Corbis

 The competition for FOOD, WATER, LAND and ENERGY will intensify.  www.steria.com/sustainability 11.05.2010 31 Six forces of change

 As we keep CROWDING the Earth.  www.steria.com/sustainability EVENT: Earth at night 11.05.2010 32 Six forces of change © PHOTO: DMSP and NASA

 In ever growing METROPOLISES  www.steria.com/sustainability PLACE: Chicago 11.05.2010 33 Six forces of change © PHOTO: Scanpix / Corbis / Robert Llewellyn

 Food-shortages and malnutrition are already striking hard-hit areas.  www.steria.com/sustainability 11.05.2010 34 Six forces of change

  www.steria.com/sustainability 11.05.2010 35 Six forces of change EVENT: Food Crisis in Kolkata, West Bengal, India © PHOTO: Scanpix / ZUMA press

 2 billion people are already affected by water scarcity.  www.steria.com/sustainability SOURCE: World Resource Institute, Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, 200536 11.05.2010 Six forces of change EVENT: Water crisis in Wangcheng county, central China, July 2007 © PHOTO: Scanpix / Reuters

 “ Up to 25% of the world s world’s food production may become lost due to environmental breakdown by 2050 unless action is taken.” – UNEP (United Nations Environment Programme) , g ) ,The Environmental Food Crisis – The Environment's Role in Averting Future Food Crises, 2009  www.steria.com/sustainability 11.05.2010 37 Six forces of change

 Mass MIGRATION is inevitable.  www.steria.com/sustainability 11.05.2010 38 Six forces of change

 Migration Environmental damages force people to leave hard-hit rural areas to seek better conditions in already over-crowded cities.  www.steria.com/sustainability 11.05.2010 39 Six forces of change PLACE: India © PHOTO: Scanpix

 1 billion billi are currently living as slum dwellers in the developing world’s cities.  www.steria.com/sustainability 11.05.2010 40 Six forces of change SOURCE: World Bank, World Development Report 2009 "Reshaping Economic Geography PLACE: Lagos in Nigeria

 200 million Estimated number of climate refugees by 2050.  www.steria.com/sustainability 11.05.2010 41 Six forces of change SOURCE: Synthesis Report, Climate Change, Global Risks, Challenges & Decisions, 2009

 To sum it all up…  www.steria.com/sustainability 11.05.2010 42 Climate change

 Unsustainable The fashion and speed in which we keep exploiting Earth, is simply unsustainable in the long term  www.steria.com/sustainability 11.05.2010 43 Six forces of change © PHOTO: Scanpix / Corbis

 Now, to the first big question  www.steria.com/sustainability 11.05.2010 44 Climate change

 What to do  www.steria.com/sustainability

 We should start to CARE more  How we care about ourselves  How we care about our family  How we care about our neighborhood  How we care about our planet.  www.steria.com/sustainability

 We should rethink and redesing our lives.  How we get and use energy  How we work and live.  How we make things. g  www.steria.com/sustainability 11.05.2010 47 Six forces of change © Photo: Scanpix / Reuters

 Now, to the second big question  www.steria.com/sustainability 11.05.2010 48 Climate change

 Who should do the job  www.steria.com/sustainability

 This is NOT a task for the poorest and developing nations.  www.steria.com/sustainability 11.05.2010 50 Climate change

 2,6 2 6 billion Almost half the world’s population live on $2 per day or less.  www.steria.com/sustainability 11.05.2010 51 Climate change SOURCE: World Resources Institute (WRI), World Resources 2008 © PHOTO: Save the Children / Kelley Lynch

 They can y only hope and pray for better times.  www.steria.com/sustainability 11.05.2010 52 Climate change EVENT: Priests perform special prayers in order to appease the rain god due to lack of rain. Mumbai August 26, 2009. © PHOTO: Scanpix / Reuters / Punit Paranjpe

 This is a task for the INDUSTRIALIZED world.  www.steria.com/sustainability 11.05.2010 53 Climate change

 16% of the world’s population account for 80% of the money spent on private consumption.  www.steria.com/sustainability 11.05.2010 54 Climate change SOURCE: The World Bank, WHERE IS THE Wealth of NATIONS?, 2006 PLACE: Chicago © PHOTO: Goodshoot

Because we’ve created the problem,  we must fix it it. We = the th consumers, the leaders, the politicians, the th corporations ti We = US, Japan, China, Germany, France, Britain, Italy, Russia, Spain, Brazil, Spain Brazil Canada, India, Scandinavia, and many more more…  www.steria.com/sustainability 11.05.2010 55 Climate change

 So, please dear friend…  www.steria.com/sustainability 11.05.2010 56 Six forces of change

 Start a new life today.  www.steria.com/sustainability

 Start to CARE for all life that surround you  www.steria.com/sustainability

 A Steria insight series production.  www.steria.com/sustainability 11.05.2010 59 Climate change

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