September 26, 2020 / Bianca-Toledo / 0 Comments

How would climate change impact the environment and culture?

Not only is it a major environmental and human challenge, but climate change is still a danger to the global economy. This challenge involves cooperation between the public and private sectors in order to transform the way we produce products into new strategies that maintain and promote sustainable economic development.
Climate change is also perceived to be one of the major challenges to global security.
Climate change, as well as its severe effects on the atmosphere and the economy, is one of the key challenges to global security.
Heatwaves leave us less likely to cope and limit efficiency. Millions of residents have been ravaged by storms, cyclones and typhoons, leaving them in total misery after their communities have been violently washed away. Droughts limit harvesting and thereby intensify the difficult issue of feeding the planet’s population, which is predicted to reach 10 billion by 2050 (Planet Demographic Projections 2019, United Nations). The World Bank estimates that climate change might drive 100 million more people into poverty by 2030 if we do not do anything soon.

The social and economic effects of climate change.
How the Netflix model impacts the environment, economy and society Entrepreneurs bring the model of sharing-by-mail to toys , books, art and more, but is it always more sustainable to share? 
Performance also breeds copycats, and Netflix’s swift rise is no different. A flood of entrepreneurs and major retailers aiming to be the Netflix of toys , books, clothes, luxury jewelry and more have been drawn by its initial concept of exchanging goods by mail.
Any of these firms demand a monthly fee, much as Netflix, and some sell video rentals for pay-per-use. Everyone is part of the social economy: instead of selling additional goods, they earn revenue by exchanging the same items. Airbnb, which leases private spaces, apartments and houses, and Zipcar, which offers a monthly fee to users who lease vehicles instead of buying them, are both part of the social economy.

But how viable is it, when the Netflix model gathers success, and has someone other than Netflix really been able to make a profit?
Many of these organizations who follow the paradigm are founded on the common idea that it is more eco sustainable to reproduce the same goods over and over again, by various individuals, without performing reliable lifecycle studies, rather than producing fresh goods that would more definitely stay unused in a closet corner. The definition, condensed, is “less stuff is great.” This is definitely a theory that Max Gover, creator of Newark , New Jersey, Spark Box Toys, subscribes to. Established in 2012, the organization charges customers a premium for a box of toys intended for children under four years of age. Every four, six or eight weeks, a package arrives and parents may choose to purchase the toys.
“Educational toys have a limited life and children grow too soon, so what happens is that by collecting them, you get an enormous volume of waste,” Gover said. There could be a child attached to a teddy bear. But after that [skill] has been learned, a toy that teaches scales can have very little function. “But effective crunching of data also reveals findings that upend what might seem intuitive.” A University of Massachusetts study showed that downloading a video consumes 78% of the energy necessary for a DVD to be delivered, but accumulates a carbon footprint that is nearly 100% higher. The higher carbon effect emerges from the intense energy usage of storage centers that store movies and pipeline them through households, induced by outdated machinery.
However, the analysis centered only on Netflix, which electronically ships small , lightweight DVDs or sends video. But several developers that are drawn to the Netflix model also sell bigger items, some of which come in unusual, hard-to-ship shapes and sizes.

This session reflects on how energy consumption has fueled production in the past, and how it is no longer viable. What could be some of the future drivers of sustainability

IS IT POSSIBLE TO HALT CLIMATE CHANGE AND BOOST THE ECONOMY?

Amid the initial resistance of the corporate sector, a growing array of studies and initiatives indicate that intervention to resolve global climate change is a golden opportunity to ensure sustainable sustainability and accelerate economic growth.As the World Commission on Economics and Environment stated in its study at the end of 2018, the implementation of aggressive climate initiatives could produce revenues of USD 26 billion by 2030, generating 65 million new low-carbon jobs.According to this study , in order to create a more sustainable, beneficial development model for citizens, we need to accelerate systemic change in five main economic sectors:Clean energy systems The decarbonisation of the energy grid, combined with decentralized, digitized electrification technology, may allow a billion more citizens access to modern energy services.Organic land use A move to more sustainable farming practices coupled with strict forest conservation may produce economic benefits of about USD 2 billion per year.

Where do the emissions from our food come from?

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GHG contamination from 29 different food products is seen in the industry, from beef at the top of the contaminant list to nuts at the bottom. For each product, you may see from what stage pollutants appear in the supply chain. This varies from changes in land use to the left, to distribution and storage to the right. This is proof from the largest meta-analysis of global food systems to date published by Joseph Poore and Thomas Nemecek (2018) in Research. Analysts looked at the data in this study on more than 38,000 commercial farms in 119 nations. In this case, we are looking at the gross GHG emission per kilogram of food product. The most important GHG is CO, but not the only one: agriculture is a large source of methane and nitrous oxide greenhouse gases. Therefore, in order to capture all GHG emissions from food processing experts, they relay them in kilograms of ‘carbon dioxide equivalents. ’Not just CO, but all greenhouse gasses are taken into account by this metric. The most important information from this research is that there are massive differences in the GHG emissions of different foods: 60 kilograms of greenhouse gasses (CO equivalents) are emitted by the production of one kilogram of beef. Peas are only emitting 1 kilogram per kg of weight. Overall, animal diets tend to have a greater footprint than those focused on vegetables. Cheese and lamb emit more than 20 kilograms of CO-equivalents per kilogram. Poultry and pork have lower footprints, but are still 6 and 7 kg CO counterparts, respectively, than other plant-based foods.The bulk of GHG emissions originate from changes in land use (shown in green) and farm-level processes (brown) for most foods and, in particular, the largest emitters. Processes such as the application of fertilizers, both agricultural (‘manure management’) and industrial, and enteric fermentation (methane combustion in the stomach of cattle) are involved in farm-level emissions. With most crops, land use and farm-level emissions combined account for more than 80 per cent of the footprint. Shipping is a marginal offender to emissions. It accounts for less than 10% of most food products, and the largest GHG emitters are even smaller.