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Slide 1:  WHAT’S WRONG with a little CLIMATE CHANGE?  www.steria.com/sustainability 06.05.2010 1 Climate change © Photo: Scanpix
Slide 2:  Like blades, phrases can be blunted by overuse. You may have heard about the dangers of “climate change”. It’s like old news. It hardly gets you concerned. h dl t d Well, there are some recent findings. They are scaring the hell out of scientists. scientists © Photo: Photodisc Singles  www.steria.com/sustainability 06.05.2010 2 Climate change
Slide 3: All the leading centres on  climate change change… © Photo: Scanpix / Corbis / David Pollack  United Nations (IPCC)  NASA  World Resources Institute  www.steria.com/sustainability 06.05.2010 3 Climate change
Slide 4:  The vast majority of climate scientists… © Photo: Scanpix / AP / Dita Alangkara  www.steria.com/sustainability 06.05.2010 4 Climate change
Slide 5:  And the most authoritative climate reports.  www.steria.com/sustainability 06.05.2010 5 Climate change
Slide 6:  Are all sounding a clear ALARM.  www.steria.com/sustainability 06.05.2010 6 Climate change
Slide 7:  We are polluting the atmosphere with so much CO2, it is causing global overheating and dangerous climate changes. SOURCE: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Climate Change 2007 – Synthesis Report  www.steria.com/sustainability 06.05.2010 7 Climate change PLACE: Chemical manufacturing facility in Australia © PHOTO: Scanpix / Reuters / Mick Tsikas
Slide 8:  The evidence is based on OBSERVATIONS across the globe g  www.steria.com/sustainability 06.05.2010 8 Climate change © Photo: NASA
Slide 9:  NASA satellite images…  www.steria.com/sustainability 06.05.2010 9 Climate change © Photo: Masterfile / Glen Wexler
Slide 10:  The Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii… SOURCE: www.mlo.noaa.gov/  www.steria.com/sustainability 06.05.2010 10 PLACE: Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawai, 3353m above sea level Climate change © PHOTO: NSO
Slide 11:  Several hundred coastal tide gauges… SOURCE: Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory (POL)  www.steria.com/sustainability 06.05.2010 11 Climate change © PHOTO: Les Bradley POL
Slide 12:  And many other climate observatories. observatories © Photo: Office of Naval Research (ONR) a  www.steria.com/sustainability 06.05.2010 12 Climate change
Slide 13:  So please, OPEN your eyes.  www.steria.com/sustainability 06.05.2010 13 Climate change
Slide 14:  It’s time to take a wider perspective.  www.steria.com/sustainability 06.05.2010 14 Climate change © Photo: tsintsin on flickr.com
Slide 15:  Look outside the comforts of your neighbourhood.  www.steria.com/sustainability 06.05.2010 15 Climate change © Photo: Scanpix / ImageSource
Slide 16:  It’s time to look at what’s happening with Earth. This is also your y HOME.  www.steria.com/sustainability 06.05.2010 16 Climate change © PHOTO: Scanpix / Corbis
Slide 17:  In the next 40 years there will be BIG changes.  www.steria.com/sustainability 06.05.2010 17 Climate change
Slide 18:  2 billion Expected increase in world population. SOURCE: UN Population Division/DESA, Press release: World Population to exceed 9 billion by 2050, March 11, 2009  www.steria.com/sustainability 06.05.2010 18 Climate change © PHOTO: Scanpix / Corbis / Alan Schein Photography
Slide 19:  200% World demand for energy is expected to more than DOUBLE. SOURCE: European Comission, World Energy Technology Outlook to 2050, 2007  www.steria.com/sustainability 06.05.2010 19 Climate change PLACE: Chicago © PHOTO: Scanpix / Folio / Tor Lindberg
Slide 20:  300% The number of cars in the world is expected to TRIPLE. p SOURCE: 50 by 50: Global Fuel Economy Initiative, 2009: FIA Foundation, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), International Energy Agency, International Transport Forum (ITF)  www.steria.com/sustainability 06.05.2010 20 Climate change © PHOTO: Pixtal
Slide 21:  400% The size of the world economy (GDP) is expected to QUADRUPLE. SOURCE: European Comission, World Energy Technology Outlook to 2050, jan. 2007  www.steria.com/sustainability 06.05.2010 21 Climate change PLACE: Ship near harbor in Singapore © PHOTO: Masterfile / R. Ian Lloyd
Slide 22:  Parts of the world will grow and PROSPER.  www.steria.com/sustainability 06.05.2010 22 Climate change
Slide 23:  1,5 1 5 billion Projected population in China. China is expected to become the world's LARGEST economy. world s SOURCE: Goldman Sachs, The N-11: More Than an Acronym" - Goldman Sachs study of N11 nations, Global Economics Paper No: 153, March 28, 2007.  www.steria.com/sustainability 06.05.2010 23 Climate change © PHOTO: AFP / Liu Jin
Slide 24:  1,6 1 6 billion Projected p p j population in India. India is expected to become the THIRD largest economy in the world. SOURCE: Goldman Sachs, The N-11: More Than an Acronym" - Goldman Sachs study of N11 nations, Global Economics Paper No: 153, March 28, 2007.  www.steria.com/sustainability 06.05.2010 24 Climate change © PHOTO: Reuters / Stringer / India
Slide 25:  Other parts of the world will be DEVASTATED.  www.steria.com/sustainability 06.05.2010 25 Climate change
Slide 26:  Crude Over the past 50 years, we have changed ecosystems more extensively than in any period in human history. SOURCE: World Resource Institute, Ecosystems and Human Well-being: Synthesis, 2005  www.steria.com/sustainability 06.05.2010 26 Climate change PLACE: Oil-sand field in Canada © PHOTO: Scanpix / AFP / David Boily
Slide 27:  75% of the natural ecosystems on which we depend y p have already been degraded. SOURCE: WWF, A roadmap for a lving planet, 2009  www.steria.com/sustainability 06.05.2010 27 Climate change © PHOTO: Luth / Fancy
Slide 28:  50% of all the forests that once covered the Earth, , have been cleared for farmland and urban development. SOURCE: World Resources Institute, World Resources 1998–99  www.steria.com/sustainability 06.05.2010 28 Climate change © PHOTO: Luth / Fancy
Slide 29:  13 million hectares of forest disappear each year. That’s an area about the size of New York. SOURCE: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, State of World Forests, 2007  www.steria.com/sustainability 06.05.2010 29 Climate change © PHOTO: Luth / Photodisc
Slide 30:  2xEarths 2xEarths’ By 2050 we will be using TWICE as many natural resources as the Earth can replenish. SOURCE: WWF, A roadmap for a lving planet, 2009  www.steria.com/sustainability 06.05.2010 30 Climate change © PHOTO: Scanpix / Corbis
Slide 31:  The competition for FOOD, WATER, LAND and ENERGY will intensify.  www.steria.com/sustainability 06.05.2010 31 Climate change
Slide 32:  As we keep CROWDING the Earth.  www.steria.com/sustainability EVENT: Earth at night 06.05.2010 32 Climate change © PHOTO: DMSP and NASA
Slide 33:  In ever growing METROPOLISES  www.steria.com/sustainability PLACE: Chicago 06.05.2010 33 Climate change © PHOTO: Scanpix / Corbis / Robert Llewellyn
Slide 34:  DID YOU KNOW! Urban areas account for only 4% of the world’s land area, but they hold about half of the world’s population. y pp  www.steria.com/sustainability SOURCE: ? 06.05.2010 34 PLACE: 5th Avenue, New York Climate change © PHOTO: Scanpix / Masterfile / Mark Leibowitz
Slide 35:  The KEY point is…  www.steria.com/sustainability 06.05.2010 35 Climate change
Slide 36:  Unsustainable The fashion and speed in which we keep exploiting Earth, is simply unsustainable in the long term  www.steria.com/sustainability 06.05.2010 36 Climate change © PHOTO: Scanpix / Corbis
Slide 37:  If we continue POLLUTING the atmosphere…  www.steria.com/sustainability 06.05.2010 37 Climate change
Slide 38:  Carbon emissions from human activities are expected to DOUBLE. p SOURCE: PricewaterhouseCoopers, The world in 2050, Impact of global growth on carbon emissions, 2006  www.steria.com/sustainability 06.05.2010 38 Climate change © PHOTO: Scanpix / AP / Frank Augstein
Slide 39:  The highest CO2 levels in 650,000 years. 400 CO2 parts per million m 360 320 280 240 200 160 Historical CO2 levels Source: NASA, Global Climate Change, 2009 and Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 2007 CO2 le els ha e ne er been higher than this line – until no levels have never ntil now 1950 YEARS before today (0=1950)  www.steria.com/sustainability 06.05.2010 39 Climate change
Slide 40:  The carbon overload in the atmosphere, acts like a warming blanket covering Earth. p g g  www.steria.com/sustainability 06.05.2010 40 Climate change © PHOTO: Scanpix / Masterfile / David Papazian
Slide 41:  Global warming is already happening and it’s accelerating. y pp g g SOURCE: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Climate Change 2007 – Synthesis Report  www.steria.com/sustainability 06.05.2010 41 Climate change EVENT: Chemical manufacturing facility in Australia © PHOTO: Scanpix / Reuters / Mick Tsikas
Slide 42:  Our climate will get totally OUT OF BALANCE.  www.steria.com/sustainability 06.05.2010 42 Climate change
Slide 43:  Climate changes are being observed across the globe.  www.steria.com/sustainability 06.05.2010 43 Climate change © PHOTO: Scanpix / Corbis
Slide 44:  Most of the changes are related g to WARMING and WATER. Because we’re mainly a water-world.  www.steria.com/sustainability 06.05.2010 44 Climate change © Photo: Scanpix / Gorilla / Karin Smeds
Slide 45:  The most obvious EVIDENCE is…  www.steria.com/sustainability 06.05.2010 45 Climate change
Slide 46:  Warming! The 17 warmest years ever recorded have all occurred in the last 20. The warmth of the last century is unprecedented in the previous 1,300 years.  www.steria.com/sustainability 06.05.2010 46 SOURCE: Met Office Hadley Centre, Warming: Climate Change – the facts, 2009 Climate change © PHOTO: Scanpix / Thomas Nykrog
Slide 47:  More humidity M h idi The large oceans and land moisture evaporates more quickly with increasing temperatures. SOURCE: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 2008  www.steria.com/sustainability 06.05.2010 47 Climate change © PHOTO: mercurialn at flickr.com
Slide 48:  Ice melting The Arctic ice cap has lost 30% of its surface area in 30 years. The rate of loss has accelerated since 2002. 1982 2007 SOURCE: US National Snow and Ice Data Centre, 2007 / United Nations Environment Programme, Global Outlook for Ice & Snow, 2007  www.steria.com/sustainability 06.05.2010 48 Climate change The Arctic ice cap © PHOTO: Unknown
Slide 49:  Ice melting Lakes are beginning to appear on the Greenland ice sheet. It is melting much faster than previously predicted. SOURCE: Greenland Ice Sheet surface mass-balance modelling and freshwater flux for 2007, and in a 1995-2007 perspective. Hydrological Processes, 2009  www.steria.com/sustainability 06.05.2010 49 Climate change © PHOTO: Unknown
Slide 50:  The most dangerous THREAT is…  www.steria.com/sustainability 06.05.2010 50 Climate change
Slide 51:  Rising sea levels Rising temperatures cause the oceans to heat up and expand. Gnawing away at low-lying coastal communities. SOURCE: NASA mission help dissect sea-level rise, 2006  www.steria.com/sustainability 06.05.2010 51 EVENT: Cancun, Mexico Climate change © PHOTO: Luth / Digital Vision Singles
Slide 52:  Extreme weather Heavy rainfall, floods, storms and heat waves will become more frequent and extreme. SOURCE: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 2008  www.steria.com/sustainability 06.05.2010 52 EVENT: Flood in central Minsk, Belarus, July 2009 Climate change © PHOTO: Scanpix / AP / Sergei Grits
Slide 53:  Worse hurricanes The warm wet air is like superfuel for hurricanes. The number of category 4 and 5 hurricanes has doubled in the last 30 years. SOURCE: Emanuel, K., Increasing destructiveness of tropical cyclones over the past 30 years, Nature, 2005  www.steria.com/sustainability 06.05.2010 53 Climate change EVENT: Eye of an hurricane as seen from a NASA satellite © PHOTO: NASA
Slide 54:  Destruction of urban infrastructures is inevitable.  www.steria.com/sustainability 06.05.2010 54 Climate change
Slide 55:  Hurricane Ike approaching Galveston Island in Texas. Texas SOURCE: Associated Press, Sept. 208  www.steria.com/sustainability 06.05.2010 55 EVENT: Galveston Island, Texas Climate change © PHOTO: Scanpix / AP / David J. Phillip
Slide 56:  SOURCE: The Stern Review: The economics of climate change, Cambridge University Press, 2007  www.steria.com/sustainability 06.05.2010 56 EVENT: Aftermath from Hurricane Ike, Galveston, Texas, 2008 Climate change © PHOTO: Scanpix / AP / Matt Slocum
Slide 57:  Some regions will get WETTER and WILDER.  www.steria.com/sustainability 06.05.2010 57 Climate change
Slide 58:  SOURCE: Associated Press  www.steria.com/sustainability 06.05.2010 58 EVENT: Hurricane hitting Cuba in 2008 Climate change © PHOTO: AP / Educardo Verdugo
Slide 59:  SOURCE: EPA, Sept. 2008  www.steria.com/sustainability 06.05.2010 EVENT: Flood in Sueca, Valencia, eastern Spain on 23 September 2008. 59 Climate change © PHOTO: Scanpix / EPA / Kai Foersterling
Slide 60:  Other regions will get HOTTER and DRIER.  www.steria.com/sustainability 06.05.2010 60 Climate change
Slide 61: SOURCE:  EVENT: © PHOTO: Heat waves  www.steria.com/sustainability 06.05.2010 61 will be more intense. Climate change
Slide 62:  Forest fires will be more frequent and destructive. EVENT: Fire in the San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles, Oct. 2008  www.steria.com/sustainability 06.05.2010 62 Climate change © PHOTO: Scanpix / Associated Press / Dan Steinberg
Slide 63:  Droughts will be more severe, leading to crop failures failures. SOURCE: World Resource Institute, Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, 2005  www.steria.com/sustainability 06.05.2010 63 EVENT: Failed harvest in Ouyen, Victoria, Australia Climate change © PHOTO: Rodney Dekker
Slide 64:  250 million people are directly affected by desertification desertification. One billion in 100 countries are at risk. SOURCE: United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), Explanatory Leaflet, The problem of land degradation  www.steria.com/sustainability 06.05.2010 64 Climate change EVENT: Tengger Desert, China © PHOTO: Scanpix, EPA, Michael Reynolds
Slide 65:  Food-shortages and malnutrition will strike already hard-hit areas.  www.steria.com/sustainability 06.05.2010 65 Climate change
Slide 66:   www.steria.com/sustainability 06.05.2010 66 Climate change © PHOTO: Scanpix / ZUMA press EVENT: Food Crisis in Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Slide 67:  people are already affected by water scarcity. 2 billion  www.steria.com/sustainability 06.05.2010 SOURCE: World Resource Institute, Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, 200567 Climate change EVENT: Water crisis in Wangcheng county, central China, July 2007 © PHOTO: Scanpix / Reuters
Slide 68:  “ Up to 25% of the world s world’s food production may become lost due to environmental breakdown by 2050 unless action is taken.” – UNEP (United Nations Environment Programme) , g ) ,The Environmental Food Crisis – The Environment's Role in Averting Future Food Crises, 2009  www.steria.com/sustainability 06.05.2010 68 Climate change
Slide 69:  Mass MIRGRATION is inevitable.  www.steria.com/sustainability 06.05.2010 69 Climate change
Slide 70:  Migration Damage from climate change forces people to leave hard-hit rural areas to seek better conditions in already over-crowded cities.  www.steria.com/sustainability 06.05.2010 70 Climate change © PHOTO: Scanpix PLACE: India
Slide 71:  200 million Estimated number of climate refugees by 2050.  www.steria.com/sustainability SOURCE: Synthesis Report, Climate Change, Global Risks, Challenges & Decisions, 2009 06.05.2010 71 Climate change
Slide 72:  Mass extinction of WILDLIFE is inevitable.  www.steria.com/sustainability 06.05.2010 72 Climate change
Slide 73:  17,000 , species are currently threatened with extinction.  www.steria.com/sustainability 06.05.2010 73 Climate change EVENT: Elephans fleeing © PHOTO: Unknown SOURCE: Wildlife in a changing world, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), 2008
Slide 74:  90% of the large fish in the seas have been plundered.  www.steria.com/sustainability 06.05.2010 SOURCE: World Resource Institute, Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, 200574 Climate change © PHOTO: Unknown
Slide 75:  25% of species is heading for extinction by 2050.  www.steria.com/sustainability 06.05.2010 75 Climate change EVENT: Seabird caught in fishnet SOURCE: Wildlife in a changing world, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), 2008
Slide 76:  20% of coral reefs have been lost and an additional 20% are d dditi l degraded. dd  www.steria.com/sustainability 06.05.2010 76 Climate change PHOTO: Lonely Planet / Holger Leue / Lon SOURCE: World Resource Institute, Ecosystems and Human Well-being: Synthesis, 2005
Slide 77:  “ Over the past few hundred years, humans have increased the species extinction rate by as much as 1,000 times over background rates typical over the planet’s history.” hi t ” – World Resource Institute Millennium Institute, Ecosystem Assessment, 2005  www.steria.com/sustainability 06.05.2010 77 Climate change
Slide 78:  The Lancet SUMS it up best  www.steria.com/sustainability 06.05.2010 78 Climate change
Slide 79:  “ Climate change is the biggest global health threat of the 21st Century. Climate change will have its greatest impact on those who are already the poorest in the world: it will deepen inequities and the effects of global warming will shape the future of health among all peoples. May 2009  www.steria.com/sustainability 06.05.2010 79 Climate change
Slide 80:  We must respond NOW.  www.steria.com/sustainability 06.05.2010 80 Climate change
Slide 81:  We only have a few years to reverse the rise y y in man-made carbon emissions  www.steria.com/sustainability 06.05.2010 81 Climate change © PHOTO: Scanpix / Corbis / Wolfram Schroll
Slide 82:  This is NOT a task for the poorest and developing nations.  www.steria.com/sustainability 06.05.2010 82 Climate change
Slide 83:  2,6 2 6 billion Almost half the world’s population live on $2 per day or less. SOURCE: World Resources Institute (WRI), World Resources 2008  www.steria.com/sustainability 06.05.2010 83 Climate change © PHOTO: Save the Children / Kelley Lynch
Slide 84:  They can y only hope and pray for better times.  www.steria.com/sustainability 06.05.2010 84 Climate change © PHOTO: Scanpix / Reuters / Punit Paranjpe EVENT: Priests perform special prayers in order to appease the rain god due to lack of rain. Mumbai August 26, 2009.
Slide 85:  This is a task for the INDUSTRIALIZED world.  www.steria.com/sustainability 06.05.2010 85 Climate change
Slide 86:  16% of the world’s population account for 80% of the money spent on private consumption. SOURCE: The World Bank, WHERE IS THE Wealth of NATIONS?, 2006  www.steria.com/sustainability 06.05.2010 86 PLACE: Chicago Climate change © PHOTO: Goodshoot
Slide 87: Because we’ve created the problem,  we must fix it it. We = the th consumers, the leaders, the politicians, the th corporations ti We = US, Japan, China, Germany, France, Britain, Italy, Russia, Spain, Brazil, Spain Brazil Canada, India, Scandinavia, and many more more…  www.steria.com/sustainability 06.05.2010 87 Climate change
Slide 88:  Here’s what we should do.  www.steria.com/sustainability 06.05.2010 88 Climate change
Slide 89:  We must get and use energy smarter.  www.steria.com/sustainability 06.05.2010 89 Climate change © Photo: Scanpix / Masterfile / Mike Dobel
Slide 90:  The way we currently use coal, oil and gas… … pollutes the atmosphere with huge amounts of CO2  www.steria.com/sustainability 06.05.2010 90 Climate change © Photo: EPA / DIEGO AZUBEL
Slide 91:  We must start to capture and store CO2 emissions. Especially from:  Factories  Power stations  Transport  www.steria.com/sustainability 06.05.2010 91 Climate change
Slide 92:  We must use more renewable energy sources. For example: p  Hydrogen  Solar  Wind  www.steria.com/sustainability 06.05.2010 92 Climate change © Photo: www.flickr.com/photos/andjohan/1022097482/
Slide 93:  We must use more energy-efficient cars.  www.steria.com/sustainability 06.05.2010 93 Climate change © Photo: Brand X
Slide 94:  We must build more energy-efficient buildings. © Photo: Digital Vision n  www.steria.com/sustainability 06.05.2010 94 Climate change
Slide 95: We must be better at sustainable forest  management management.  www.steria.com/sustainability 06.05.2010 95 Climate change © Photo: Scanpix Denmark / Jørgen Bausager
Slide 96:  We must push for more climate-friendly farming. SOURCE: Emission Database for Global Atmospheric Research  www.steria.com/sustainability 06.05.2010 96 Climate change © PHOTO: Uknown
Slide 97:  We must reduce and recycle our waste.  www.steria.com/sustainability 06.05.2010 97 Climate change
Slide 98:  Some FINAL thoughts…  www.steria.com/sustainability 06.05.2010 98 Climate change
Slide 99:  We now have an UNIQUE chance. To be more creative than ever before. To totally rethink and redesign our lives: - How we get and use energy. - Ho we work and li e How e ork live. - How we make things.  www.steria.com/sustainability 06.05.2010 99 Climate change © Photo: Scanpix / Reuters
Slide 100:  We owe it to our children. In the end… It’s not us who will suffer the most from climate changes. It’s our children and grandchildren.  www.steria.com/sustainability © Photo: Scanpix / Corbis 06.05.2010 100 Climate change
Slide 101:  So please, dear friend… Start to think and act green today and help safeguard our future.  www.steria.com/sustainability 06.05.2010 101 Climate change
Slide 102:  A Steria insight series p g production. Produced by: Anders Lindgren, Steria AS Music: Mike Oldfield, North Star  www.steria.com/sustainability 06.05.2010 102 Climate change