Joshua Bishop, WWF Australia - Presentation UNAA Sustainable Consumption and Production Seminar 27.6.13
The document outlines WWF's commitment to sustainable consumption and production through voluntary certification of commodities, particularly in Australia. It emphasizes significant issues like biodiversity loss, pollution, and social challenges in sugar production while setting ambitious goals for sustainable sourcing in various sectors. Furthermore, it discusses the need for improved practices and certifications to address environmental impacts and enhance sustainability.
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Joshua Bishop, WWF Australia - Presentation UNAA Sustainable Consumption and Production Seminar 27.6.13
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- 2. • Sustainable Consumption& Production • Voluntary Certification of Commodities • WWF‟s Experience in Australia Outline
- 3. -28% Global Living PlanetIndex (LPI) WWF/ZSL, 2012
- 4. Ecological footprint bycomponent (1961-2008) Global Footprint Network, 2011
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- 6. Major drivers ofbiodiversity loss Source: Rethinking Global Biodiversity Strategies: Exploring structural changes in production and consumption to reduce biodiversity loss. © Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL), The Hague/Bilthoven, 2010 MSA - Mean Species Abundance
- 7. 2/07/2013 - 7 Deforestation 85%Agriculture & Ranching 10% Logging, Pulp & Paper
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- 9. 2/07/2013 - 9 Largestsource of pollution
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- 12. 2/07/2013 - 12 87%of fisheries fully exploited or overfished
- 13. 100% sustainable sourcingof paper products 100% sustainable sourcing of all agricultural raw materials by 2020 Committed to trading 100% sustainable palm oil by 2015, in US/EU, and globally by 2020 100% of top 20 wild-caught seafood products are sourced from sustainable fisheries, or from fisheries on a pathway to sustainability, by 2015 Corporate commitment to sustainable sourcing (a few examples)
- 14. Mature Developing Emerging Howto prove that raw materials are sourced sustainably? The role of voluntary standards
- 15. 0 20,000,000 40,000,000 60,000,000 80,000,000 100,000,000 120,000,000 140,000,000 160,000,000 180,000,000 200,000,000 FSC certified areaby forest zone (hectares) Sub-/Tropical Temperate Boreal What are the results?
- 16. MSC labelled seafoodproducts currently available to consumers Source: MSC What are the results? (2)
- 17. Ecological Footprint bycountry Global Footprint Network, 2011
- 18. Market transformation inAustralia: Corporate partnerships Wild Caught Seafood Aquaculture Beef Sugar Forest Products Palm Oil
- 19. • Soil erosion& degradation • Loss of natural habitats & agro-biodiversity • Over use of fresh water • Excessive use of agro- chemicals (fertilizers & pesticides) • Discharge and runoff of polluted effluent and air pollution Environmental impacts of sugar production
- 20. Issues of concern: •Labourrights of cane cutters and mill employees • Mechanization of harvesting leading to redundancy of cane cutters • Low productivity and income of small-scale farmers • Land and water conflicts - especially in expansion areas Countries mainly affected: Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Honduras, India, Malawi, Pakistan, P araguay, South Africa Social issues in sugar
- 21. Includes: • Production standard(2011) • Chain of custody standard (mass balance) Basic principles: 1. Obey the law 2. Respect human rights and labourstandards 3. Manage input, production and processing efficiencies to enhance sustainability 4. Actively manage biodiversity and ecosystem services 5. Continuously improve key areas of the business Bonsucro standards
- 22. 2/07/2013 - 22 Annualproduction of 30-35 million tonnes on over 400,000 ha, worth around AU$2 billion. 95% of sugar produced in Australia is grown in Queensland and about 5% in northern New South Wales, along 2,100 km of coastline. 80% of production is exported, mainly to South Korea, Indonesia, Malaysia and Japan. Around 4,000 farming enterprises, most owned by sole proprietors or family partnerships, although corporate ownership of farms is increasing. Sugarcane in Australia
- 23. Sugar farming poses major risksto Great Barrier Reef Source: Great Barrier Outlook Report 2009, Chapter 8, “Risks to the Reef” (http://www.gbrmpa.gov.au/__data/as sets/pdf_file/0017/3905/GBRMPA_O RCH8.pdf)
- 24. WWF Goal: 20%adoption of best management practice by producers in the Great Barrier Reef catchments, by 2016. WWF approach: Towards sustainable sugar in Australia • Validate improved practices at farm level (Project Catalyst) • Support industry-led Best Management Practices (BMPs) • Government funding to develop and promote improved practices (e.g. Reef Rescue) • Market recognition for growers and millers who move towards Bonsucro accreditation • Research and development
- 25. • Who bearsthe cost of sustainable production? • How to reduce the costs of certification / chain of custody? • What are the social & environmental impacts of certification? • How to strengthen the business case for sustainable production? Especially in developing countries? • What role can/should governments play? • How to go beyond the „conscious‟ consumer? • What potential beyond consumer goods markets? • How to broaden the scope of certification to embrace ecosystem services (carbon, water, biodiversity)? Questions and challenges...
- 26. WWF is inover 100 countries, on 5 continents +100 WWF was founded in 1961 1961 WWF has over 5,000 staff worldwide +5,000 WWF has over 5 million supporters +5m Photo: © Michel Roggo / WWF-Canon wwf.org.au Thank you
Editor's Notes
- #4 The global LPI continues to show a decline of about 30 per cent (-28%) between 1970 and 2008. This is based on trends in 9,014 populations of 2,688 mammal, bird, reptile, amphibian and fish species – many more than in any previous edition of the Living Planet Report.
- #5 The Ecological Footprint, in partnership with GFN, tells us why:Footprint has doubled since 1966. In 2008, the most recent year for which data are available, the footprint exceeded the Earth’s biocapacity – the area of land and productive oceans actually available to produce renewable resources and absorb CO2 emissions – by more than 50 per cent.Our current overshoot is largely due to carbon emissions: and has grown 11-fold since 1961. The largest component of the Ecological Footprint is the carbon footprint (55%). At a national level the carbon footprint represents more than half the Ecological Footprint for one-quarter of the countries tracked. It is the largest component for approximately half the countries tracked
- #18 An individual’s Ecological Footprint varies significantly depending on a number of factors, including their country of residence, the quantity of goods and services they consume, the resources used and the wastes generated to provide these goods and services. This comparison includes all countries with populations greater than 1 million for which complete data are available.