In
its People and the Planet report, the Royal Society supports the idea of giving cash value to finite «natural capital» just as we do to finite material resources.
Not exact matches
This will be the defining factor of the future market landscape, since, as the Global Opportunity
Report shows, behind every global risk lies a business opportunity that can also benefit
people and the
planet.
«Eating less meat is a simple way for
people to benefit their health
and the health of the
planet,» said Sue Dibb, Eating Better coordinator
and the author of the
report.
The
report highlights impacts across the 3P's,
People,
Planet and Profit.
Our 2017 Purpose - led Performance
Report reflects McCormick's work to improve the health
and well - being of all
people; build vibrant communities where we live, work
and source;
and make a positive impact on the
planet.
30 Jun 2017 — Nestlé Purina has released its 2016 Creating Shared Value
report for the Americas, demonstrating how the company is making a positive impact for pets,
people and the
planet.
People may have less sex on hot days, Bloomberg Business
reports,
and that could mean fewer babies as the
planet heats up.
Using high - performance computing
and genetic engineering to boost the photosynthetic efficiency of plants offers the best hope of increasing crop yields enough to feed a
planet expected to have 9.5 billion
people on it by 2050, researchers
report in the journal Cell.
As we have
reported many times, Musk
and his
people at SpaceX have the bold dream of colonizing Mars,
and think they can launch the first human mission to the surface of the Red
Planet as soon as 2024 — when Trump, if reelected, would still be in the White House.
Reports of damaging ocean acidification, accelerating sea - level rise or unprecedented decreases of polar
and glacial ice are also mostly myths designed to terrify
people into accepting harmful policies that allegedly «save the
planet.»
According to the UN High - Level Panel
report «every day, poverty condemns 1 out of 7
people on the
planet to a struggle to survive;» The UN High - Level Panel
reports notes that «continuing on current growth trends, about 5 % of
people will be in extreme poverty by 2030, compared with 43.1 % in 1990
and a forecast 16.1 % in 2015» (2013:44).
The GSP has expressed its views
and recommendations in its
report entitled «Resilient
People, Resilient
Planet: A Future Worth Choosing».
The
Report, Education for
people and planet, shows the need for education systems to step up attention to environmental concerns.
The UN Secretary - General's subsequent Synthesis
Report proposes one universal
and transformative agenda for sustainable development, underpinned by rights, that is
people - centred
and planet - sensitive.
The UN's
report, «Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development,» has set a plan of action in 5 areas:
People,
Planet, Prosperity, Peace
and Partnership.
I particularly enjoyed the workshop on «Storytelling in the Anthropocene: Picturing
People and the
Planet» (find the summary here), which featured illuminating video
reports on humanity's growth spurt from Bangladesh, the Philippines
and Nepal by a new generation of visual communicators who are breaking down conventional definitions of media.
On the science If
people understood what Hansen has been explaining, what the IPCC
report says if you read it closely, what climate scientists say off the record, what I try to cull together from the literature, they would understand that we can't go above 450 p.p.m. [parts per million of CO2 in the atmosphere], because that will almost certainly take us across thresholds that shoot to 750 to 1000 p.p.m. —
and that is 5 °C + warming,
and that is an ice - free
planet.
The UN Secretary - General's Global Sustainability Panel
report, Resilient
People, Resilient
Planet, provides a strong strategic framework for a sustainable future while calling for a marked strengthening of the interface between science
and policy.
A decade after the World Commission on Dams (WCD) issued its groundbreaking
report, the evidence continues to mount that large dams — unless they are developed with the strictest environmental
and social standards — bring significant costs to
people and the
planet: The UN's Third Global Biodiversity Outlook (May 201
Indigenous
people who are opposed to unchecked tar sands development
and many
report illnesses caused by toxic pollution from the largest industrial development on the
planet.
As I
reported back in April last year, the Royal Society made Paul Ehrlich a fellow, just as they released their
report on population, «
People and planet `.
This coincided with a new
report from Friends of the Earth International, «Good Energy, Bad Energy: Transforming the Energy System for
People and the
Planet».
Before all else makes a difference to these
reports in the media
and videos you have been tossing our way around the globe will STOP when our
Planet is going to be Hit worst time in history killing at least 600,000
people if not more due to our Solar System in conjunction to
Planet earth as in Mother Nature taking control
and exploding her equations making sure this never happens again..
World on the edge: how to prevent environmental
and economic collapse — Powerpoint slideshow
and PDF showing that demand for natural resources is outstripping supply (Lester Brown) The steady - state economy — Powerpoint slideshow questioning why economic growth is seen as the solution to the world's economic problems instead of a cause The steady - state economy
and economic degrowth — Powerpoint slideshow arguing for «ecological ecomomics» (Blake Alcott) Review of
People and the
Planet — Powerpoint slideshow summarising the
report (Richard Vernon) Growthbusters 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 — Powerpoint slideshows about sustainability that can be used singly or combined (Sandy Irvine)
The BBC
reported Schools Minister Jim Knight as saying, «Climate change is one of the most important challenges facing our
planet today -LSB-...] This pack will help to give young
people information
and inspiration to understand
and debate the issues around climate change,
and how they as individuals
and members of a community should respond to it.»
«Many of the events that made 2012 such an interesting year are part of the long - term trends we see in a changing
and varying climate — carbon levels are climbing, sea levels are rising, Arctic sea ice is melting,
and our
planet as a whole is becoming a warmer place,» said Acting NOAA Administrator Kathryn D. Sullivan, Ph.D. «This annual
report is well - researched, well - respected,
and well - used; it is a superb example of the timely, actionable climate information that
people need from NOAA to help prepare for extremes in our ever - changing environment.»
The intent is «to give
people a better idea of how consumers in different countries are doing in taking action to preserve our
planet by tracking,
reporting,
and promoting environmentally sustainable consumption
and citizen behavior.»