Integrating Sustainable Investment and One Health Strategy: Solution Oriented, Effective and Efficient

Integrating Sustainable Investment and One Health Strategy – solution oriented, effective and efficient.Prof. Günter KleinBonn-Rhine-Sieg University of Applied Sciences, International Centre forSustainable DevelopmentSankt AugustinGermany

What it takes to turn the key towards ensuringsustainable health…..Economic and financial crisis – celebrate the 20thanniversary!Drain of resources --- not just from developing countries!Public budgets --- disabled – on purpose?

Debt Dynamics Germany – best in class?

Deficit - Dynamics USA 1980 - 2010

Debt and Investment Dynamics - Germany 1980 - 2005Public Investment: 15 Mrd 10 Mrd

196.720 CHF..….why not saving 2 %?

… saving more than 2000 CHF!!!

Gewichtung deutscher Beiträge internationalWater Research (BMBF) 40 000 000 €/aODA Water 350 000 000 €/aExport Water Technology 10 200 000 000 €/aDer globale Markt der Wasser- und Abwasserentsorgung wird gegenwärtig auf 250 Mrd. €geschätzt (8). Der Anteil Deutschlands am Weltwassermarkt lag 2001 bei ca. 15 % (48,4Mrd. €). Wertschöpfung Wasser2011

Learning by comparison?Central Asia – Central EuropeTwo regions that can well be comparedin terms of• available water,• served population,• rich cultural and historical heritage… Wertschöpfung Wasser2011

Comparison Rhine area Aral sea basin length of river(s): 1233 km 4612 km population: 50 Mio. 59 Mio. catchment area: 185.00 km2 1.549.000 km2 runoff MQ: 2.330 [m3/sec.] ~ 1000 to 3000 [m3/sec.]water availabilitiy [m3/capita]: 1000 900 Total GDP: 2 000 000 Mio. $ 70 000 Mio. $ GDP per capita: 40.000 $ 1.200 $

Central Asia – Central Europe CAR RhineMQ (Mio. m³/a) 60 – 80. 000 60 – 80. 000Total GDP ( Mio USD/a) 70. 000 2. 000. 000GDP/m³ (USD/m³) 1 28Potential economic loss due to inappropriate water management:Roughly 40.000 USD per person and yearEfficiency loss 28 USD per m³ of water“Total Loss” around 1.500.000 Mio USDevery year since the mid 19-sixties,…….. alltogether some 60.000.000.000.000 USD…. Wertschöpfung Wasser2011

The poor pay more…..Cost for local water supply 0,05 - 0,8 $/m³Cost for water purchased from street vendors 0,5 - 15 $/m³ The United Nations World Water Development Report 2003 Universität Duisburg 16.06.2009

Purchasing Power of the PoorSegment 1: 1.3 Mrd. x 5,6 $/a = 7.2 Mrd. $/aSegment 2: 2 - 3 Mrd. x 12 $/a = > 24 Mrd $/aDuring the Decade „Water for life“ 2005 – 2015 poor people will pay at least 300 Mrd. USDMany of them still for unsafe water....and millions of their children suffering,and dying from water borne diseases. Why? Universität Duisburg 16.06.2009

Intervention Annual benefits Benefit–cost ratio US$ millionsHalving the proportion of peoplewithout access to improved watersources by 2015 18 143 9Halving the proportion of peoplewithout access to improved watersources and improved sanitation by 2015 84 400 8Universal access to improved waterand improved sanitation and waterdisinfected at the point of use by 2015 344 106 12 (!!)Universal access to a regulatedpiped water supply and sewage connectionby 2015 555 901 4Aus: Safer water, better health : costs, benefits and sustainability of interventions to protect and promote health /Annette Prüss-Üstün … [et al]., Table 4….

Where to invest?• Firewood or Water?• Timber or Sustainable Foresty ?• Millionaires or Millions of Jobs ?

Getting the figures right… Where to invest?Services of the forest:• Firewood 5 Fm/ha x a x 40 $/Fm 200 $/ ha x a• High Quality Furniture Wood 3 Fm/ha x a x 400 $/Fm 1200 $/ ha x aHigh Quality Safe Ground Water0,2 - 0,5 m³/m² x a x 1 $/m³ 2000 – 5000 $/ ha x a(That water bottled would give you 100 times this figure.) Universität Duisburg 16.06.2009

Where to invest?• Firewood or renewable energy?• Timber or Sustainable Foresty = Wood or Water? Why not both?• Healthy Millionaires or Millions of Healthy Jobs ?

Wertschöpfung Wasser2011

Return on investment…. 10 newly created millionaires 10 million newly deleted jobs

Where to invest?• Firewood or renewable energy?• Timber or Sustainable Foresty = wood or water?• Millionaires or Millions of Jobs ?

According to ILO, the world will needto create another 440 million additional jobs by 2010 just to absorb new entrants to the labor force.

Intervention Annual benefits Benefit–cost ratio US$ millionsHalving the proportion of peoplewithout access to improved watersources by 2015 18 143 9Halving the proportion of peoplewithout access to improved watersources and improved sanitation by 2015 84 400 8Universal access to improved waterand improved sanitation and waterdisinfected at the point of use by 2015 344 106 12 (!!)Universal access to a regulatedpiped water supply and sewage connectionby 2015 555 901 4Aus: Safer water, better health : costs, benefits and sustainability of interventions to protect and promote health /Annette Prüss-Üstün … [et al]., Table 4….

….. or the universal language …Find the right language… Pictet September 2010

Make business work more sustainable and focus on One HealthIdentify and communicate ways towards efficientinvestment into the unlimited resources• Water• Energy• Knowledge and Competence• Moneyin order to deliver One Health!….. This is the more sustainable way!

• We have to invest into the right direction• And• Into the right to tools,• Necessary to reach the goals

Are the Tools available? SolarNatural Biogas TechnologyResources Windpower Hydropower Partnership Communication CompetenceHuman Cooperation GovernanceResources Integration Concept Universität Duisburg 08.06.2010

YES!We need them all for an integrated investment strategy.Lets invest and apply them.Now. Universität Duisburg 08.06.2010

Thank You forYour attention!!

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