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Sustainable Development
Photo: Steve Snodgrass
Photo by Mary
Photo by Wisconsin Dept of Natural Resources
Photo: Crustmania
Photo: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center/Reto/Stöckli
SustainableDevelo
pment
Improving our quality of life
without damaging the quality
of life of future generations
Every day
about 8,000
tonnes of
rubbish are
thrown away (in
England and Photo: André van Rooyen

Wales) =
the weight of 1,600 African elephants!
Photo: United Nations
Water
Pollution

Photo: Magnus Franklin

Photo: Eutrophication&hypoxia
Battersea Power Station

Photo: Loco Steve

Smog over Los Angeles, California

Photo: Ben Amstutz

Info graphic: Climatesafety
A dead forest, Czech Republic

Photo: Ramon Boersboek

 Population Growth
• What is the current
world population? 7.2 billion

•What was the world’s

2.5 billion
population in 1950?

Photo: EspenSundve
 Resources
Since 1950 the
richest 1/5 of
the population
has doubled its
consumption of
energy, meat,
timber, steel
and copper per
person. Photo:rubyblossom
Photo: NASA’s Earth Observatory

Deforestation:
The clearing of trees,
Photo: Rainforest Action Network transforming a forest into
cleared land
Photo: Rainforest Action Network
Photo: art-of-vee.com
Photo: Ben Britten

Over half the world’s plant and animal

species live in rainforests.
 ¼ of
medicines’
ingredients
were first
found in
rainforest
plants.
Photo: NVinacco
Photo: Joelle Hernandez

Brazil
70% of the deforested area is cattle
pasture.

Photo: Michael J Moeller

Photo: Paul Townsend

Photo: Nick Saltmarsh
 Palm Oil Plantation

Photo: R.A.N.

Photo: oneVillage Initiative

Photo: Rainforest Action Network

 Photo: Dan Taylor

Photo: Roberto Verso

Photo:jo.schz

Photo: John Loo

Photo: Tim Sackton

 Orangutan

Photo: Seb Ruiz

 Photo: Leonora Enkling

Deforestation
causes more carbon
emissions than all the cars,
planes and trains in the world!
‘The Mark of Responsible Forestry’
 UN-REDD
‘Reducing emissions from deforestation and
degradation’

www.un-redd.org
 30 - 40 litres

Photo: Steven Depolo

6 – 10 Photo: Brian Herzog

litres
 Photo: Pieter Vanhaecke

Photo: Fred Dawson

Photo: Liz West

Photo: Sean Wallis

Photo: Luis Vásquez

Photo: Wayne Marshall

Photo: Sandy Austin

Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, 2005

Photo: News Muse

Hurricane Katrina, 2005
Cyclone Pam, Vanuatu, March 2015

European Commission DG ECHO

Somerset Levels, November 2012
Chaos on the A361

Photo: Mark Robinson

 This polar bear managed to get on one of
the last ice floes floating in the Arctic Sea

Photo: Gerard Van derLeun

Photo: RiccardoFrancessconi
Carbon Dioxide

Photo: Oliver Wald

 Fossil Fuels
Coal Coal

Photo: Jeffrey Beall

Photo: futureatlas.com

Petrol & Diesel

Gas (Oil)
Photo: Ilya

Photo: Tom Blackwell

 Click here for greenhouse effect
Photo: Roberto Rizzato video
 Arctic sea ice
Average2012
minimum Arctic sea ice 1979 to 2010

Photo: Scientific Visualization Studio, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Photo: Martha de Jong-Lantink
Climate Change

Photo: Smudge 9000

Wind power
1 wind turbine =
electricity for
1,000 homes.

Photo: reynermedia
Solar power
Photovoltaic
Cells

Photo: Elliott Brown

Photo: Robert Pittman

Concentrated solar power

Photo: Green MPs

Hydro-electric dam

70% of the Earth’s

surface is covered in
water
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