Renewable Energy Rasmus Vincentz Habitats Youth Forum - Vilnius April 2012

Habitats

Habitats Habitats provides learning, campaigns and consultancy services that promotes biodiversity sustainable development for private companies, NGOs and public institutions. We design and plan landscapes and green urban spaces in order to increase their biological, experiential and functional value. The vision is to create synergy between human development and evolution of life.

Renewable energy for who? Renewable energy for industry Renewable energy for transport Renewable energy for housholds Renewable energy for human beings

Global greenhouse gas emissions

Greenhouse gas emissions Source: IPCC 2007

We are eating OIL

Challenges when oil = food Economic: when oil price rises Security: less and harder to get Practically: tackling of climate changes

‘Human energy’ today Emissions Toxic chemicals Water consumption Monocultural destruction of habitats (biodiversity loss) Intensive use of fossil fuels + Unhealthy and unsustainable

The way forward? Grow with less fossils Manage ressources Protect and establish eco-systems Change of cultures and habits Prepare for hard desicions Re-localisation Establish food Co-ops Seasonel based local food

Leading by lust

Rene Redzepi – Restaurant NOMA

Re-enter the flow of ressources

Cycles: Carbon Nutrient Water Energy Genetic

WWF Living Planet report 2010

Can you imaging nature thrive where we live?

The Economics of Ecosystems & Biodiversity (TEEB) G8+5 in 2007 “initiate the process of analysing the global economic benefit of biological diversity, the costs of the loss of biodiversity and the failure to take protective measures versus the costs of effective conservation. = TEEB reports Published 2010

Definition Biodiversity “the variability among living organisms from all sources…and the ecological complexes of which they are part; this includes diversity within species, between species and of ecosystems” (Convention on Biological Diversity) Ecosystem services (ES) Supporting Provisioning Regulating Cultural Millennium Ecosystem Assessment 2005

Understanding, research and tool for decision making at all levels TEEB “The invisibility of biodiversity values has often encouraged inefficient use or even destruction of natural capital that is the foundation of our economies” (TEEB Synthesis p.3)

Examples of Ecosystem Services

Status of biodiversity and ecosystem services Over the past few hundred years, it is estimated that humans have increased the extinction rate of species by as much as a 1000-fold over the natural rate. Between 12% and 52% of species within well-studied groups such as birds or mammals are threatened with extinction (IUCN Redlist) “Overall, efforts to stem biodiversity loss have clearly been inadequate, with a growing mismatch between increasing pressures and slowing responses.” (Butchardt et al: Science 2010)