20 – 22 June 2012. Governments of the world met in Rio de Janeiro for the UN Conference on Sustainable Development – Rio+20. This website collects educational material to empower the new generation of leaders with the skills, information and thinking needed to start transforming the world. Explore the menu links for all the material.
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Challenge: The Lost Generation
High youth unemployment and shrinking opportunities for us to live like our parents mean that we are a generation blighted with an uncertain future. Climate change, world debt & peak fossil fuels are not separate issues with separate solutions: we have to solve them together – and by finding those solutions will generate enough jobs …
Challenge: Dirty Fossil Fuels
In 50 years, fossil fuels – coal, oil and gas – will have become so scarce or so expensive, we won’t be able to use them to heat our homes, turn on the lights or switch on the TV. However governments still spend billions in subsidies to help the fossil fuel industry, no matter what …
Challenge: Collapsing Fish Stocks
The Graph shows that ALL of the world’s fishing grounds are now fully exploited and more than half are close to collapse. Still governments spend $27 billion dollars a year subsidising industrial fishing fleets which means that remaining fishing grounds will be fished out even faster; this in turns effects ecosystems all over the world …
Challenge: The Economy
As companies and governments focus on financial profits and GDP, even after a financial crises – Austerity hits those who did not cause it and global debt continues to rise. The gap between rich and poor grows wider and the poor get poorer; while us and future generations face paying off our parents debt for …
Challenge: Food & Water Are Running Out
Famine and starvation are on the rise again driven by the cost of oil, climate change and water shortages. Between 1950 – 2000, human water use tripled, draining many rivers, lakes and aquifers. 2.8 billion people now live in water stressed areas – a number that will rise to over 4 billion by 2025. Future …
Challenge: A Changing Climate
Climate change is not only about rising sea levels, which can effect human populations living in coastal and low lying areas. It is also about droughts, desertification, the loss of eco-systems, changing and more severe weather patterns as well as temperature increases. Yet most people don’t think Climate Change is a big problem. Many don’t …
Challenge: Gaining Peace
. The biggest barrier to development, is war: war destroys livelihoods + the natural and the built environment, and uproots people, creating refugees. Before wars starts, the military drains precious resources from national treasuries and, in many countries, is the biggest polluter. So – disarmament, especially nuclear disarmament and de-militarisation is an essential pre-condition for …
Challenge: Looking Beyond Rio+20
In 2009, hopes were perhaps set too high for a climate deal at COP15 in Copenhagen so many felt shattered when it failed. Whatever happens at Rio+20 in June, our commitment to sustainability, in our own lives, in our communities and institutions, must be resolute, creative and consistent. If the people lead – governments will …
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Encouraging young people to inform themselves and then take action.
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