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May 7-10: Seeds&Chips Milan, Italy
May 9: FReSH: The 4.0 Food Economy @ Seeds & Chips by AHK German Italian
Chamber of Commerce Milan, Italy
May 16: LifeGate Food Business Bologna, Italy
May 24-25: Pioneers Vienna, Austria
May 30- June 3: Bayer Bejing Beijing, China
June 8: 60 years of Young, Sustainable and Quality Agriculture Giovani di
Confagricoltura – ANGA Rome, Italy
June 11-12: EAT Foundation, EAT Stockholm Food Forum 2018 Stockholm, Sweden
June 19-22: Tech Open Air Berlin, Germany
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transport, and water by 2030. These
climate-friendly investments will
pay for themselves in the medium
to long-term, and will ensure that
we reach our 2030 goals. This fgure
represents six trillion USD per year
from 2015. We fell 700 billion USD
short of one trillion USD in the frst
year, and 200 billion USD short in
2016. However, we are on track to
break one trillion USD in 2017,
which will still leave us 17 trillion
USD behind in sustainable
developments for 2018.
As well as needing to understand
the SDGs properly, we need to put
the 90 trillion USD by 2030 into
perspective. The UN predicts that
there will be 8.5 billion people on
the planet by 2030; this represents
a spending of about 10,500
USD per person, or 882 USD per
person per month for one year. It
is also important to understand
the resources required to sustain
one human life to a normal life
expectancy in 2017. This has been
calculated at 1.6 global hectares (a
global hectare is an expression of
ecological footprint and biocapacity).
Since August 2, 2017 we have
been using 2.87 global hectares
per person, which represents a
defcit of 1.17 global hectares per
person. If we continue with business
as usual, human demand on the
Earth’s ecosystems is projected to
exceed what nature can regenerate
by about 75% by 2020. Similarly, if
we continue on our current path,
the Global Commission on the
Economy and Climate projects
that the world will invest 89 trillion
USD by 2030 regardless, most of
which will be spent on insurance and
emergency response—essentially
Band-Aids for high-carbon, climate-
damaging businesses. By investing the
90 trillion USD in resilient, sustainable
infrastructures and low-carbon,
renewable projects, we would have an
additional 14 trillion USD investment
with long-term returns that will support
8.5 billion people by 2030. It’s been
business as usual for too long. We need
to stop and reverse global warming
now. Businesses that are reducing their
carbon emission by 30% to 60% are
still doing harm, just less harm. If you’re
headed in the wrong direction, you
need to stop and turn around. Slowing
down just means you’re going slowly in
the wrong direction.
What steps can people
take to contribute to
the SDGs?
Have a voice and let social and
political leaders know how you feel.
Break old habits and adopt new ones with
your own personal SDG adoption of the
goals. Innovate within your own life to be
resilient and local with how you eat and
use resources. The reform is not with you
but the agriculture, food and beverage
producers. Currently we have little say in
how they produce. We can make our voice
heard and let them know they need to
change their ways to sustainable
production. There are many tools available
to help and make this easier. It starts with
a desire to change then shaping it into
new positive habits.
The top
three things
we can do
to stop and
reverse
global
warming are:
Global food
reform
Rethink
refrigerants
Empower
women and
girls
Marc Buckley