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DAVOS PRESENTATION
The document discusses the concepts of mitigation and adaptation in the context of environmental risk management, emphasizing the need for a collaborative approach to address complex global challenges. It highlights non-linear impacts of climate change, using examples like potential mass migrations from the Himalayas. Ultimately, it concludes that safeguarding the environment is essential for ensuring peace, dignity, and justice.
DAVOS PRESENTATION
- 1. GAIA’S MATRIX Togetherwe stand, together we fall
- 2. MITIGATION or ADAPTATION? • Mitigation... Too smart to be human!
- 3. In the endwe chose... Adaptation That is to say... RISK MANAGEMENT!
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- 6. A huge complexity... Just an example...
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- 9. THE HIMALAYA SCENARIO Millions on the move…
- 10. Non linear impacts WARMING CONSEQUENCES
- 11. The Doomsday Clock • Regulated 23 times since 1948 • 2 minutes closer to midnight in 2007
- 12. We need toharness this complexity ...and we need to do it in a common and shared way
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- 15. Source: IPCC WGIIAR5 Chapter 12
- 16. Source: IPCC WGIIAR5 Chapter 19
- 17. Source: New ZealandMinistry of the Environment Web site
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- 20. And, of course...Global Risks Forum - Global Risks 2012, p. 6
- 21. A proposal... GAIA,S MATRIX
- 22. GAIA’S MATRIX: noisolated sector SYSTEMIC GLOBALITY Environment Peace H. Rights Development
- 23. CONCLUSION ENVIRONMENT: OURBEST GUARANTEE OF PEACE, DIGNITY AND JUSTICE