The state of the world: is it too late for sustainability?

The Guardian – In November 2012, the “big four” professional services firm PricewaterhouseCoopers released a report that concluded it was too late to hold the future increase in global average temperatures to just two degrees Celsius. “It’s time,” the report announced, “to prepare for a warmer world”.

The same month, the World Bank released Turn Down the Heat, which soberly set forth why a four-degree warmer world must be avoided. Meanwhile, accounts of myriad emerging calamities were easy to find in the press: the failure of the Rio+20 talks to result in positive action, “zombie” coral reefs, calls for higher birth rates, declining Arctic sea ice, an approaching “state shift” in the earth’s biosphere, and other evidence of strain in natural systems and of human blindness, ignorance or denial ……..>> Access the complete article<<

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Nagoya Protocol signatories reaches 92

Labex Korea – The signing of these 91 countries and the European Union effectively demonstrates that the international community is committed to promote the early entry into force of this unique legal instrument in the service of sustainable development. I call upon Parties that have not yet done so to expedite their internal procedures ratification in 2012, which coincides with the twentieth anniversary of the signing of the opening of the Summit for Life on Earth, “said Ahmed Djoghlaf, Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity.

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