Green trends encouraging sustainable future
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Mr. Raghupathy, the Executive Director at CII – Sohrabji Godrej Green Business Centre, spoke to ISTD (Indian Society for Training & Development) Hyderabad Chapter members on \'Going Green\' and \'Green Management\'! Green Management is part of the current retooling efforts in academia and industry to address the grand challenge of environmental sustainability.
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Green trends encouraging sustainable future
- 1. “ Green as a way of life” S.Raghupathy Head CII-Godrej GBC
- 2. “ One of the goals of life is to live in harmony with the nature”
- 3. Centre of “Excellence” for Energy, Environment, Green Buildings, Renewable energy, Water & Climate change activities in India CII – Sohrabji Godrej Green Business Centre, Hyderabad A unique Public – Private Partnership ( CII, Govt of Andhra Pradesh, USAID and Pirojsha Godrej Foundation )
- 4. Vision of CII – Godrej GBC India should become one of the leaders in Green Businesses (Environment) by 2015
- 6. Global Ecological Footprint Source: Global Footprint Network, USA CO 2 Portion of Humanity’s Ecological Footprint Humanity’s food, fiber, built-up land and nuclear footprint
- 7. INDIA’S ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT Source: Global Footprint Network, USA Ecological Debt Growing over time
- 8. Ecological Debtor & Creditor Countries Debtors Creditors Footprint > 1.5 Biocapacity Footprint = 1.0 - 1.5 Biocapacity Biocapacity = 1.0 - 1.5 Footprint Biocapacity > 1.5 Footprint Biocapacity is the measure of total area of productive land interms of forest, Grassland, cropland & Fisheries Ecological Debtor & Creditor Countries
- 9. 3/4 th of India, Pakistan, West Asia, North Africa and North China will be in the throes of absolute water scarcity over the coming 25 years. Source: International Water management institute
- 11. GREEN trends are encouraging
- 12. What is Green? Energy Efficiency Bio-degradable Low Toxicity Green Supply Chain Low Material Utilization Water Positive GHG Mitigation Waste Minimization
- 14. Green Building Movement in India In 2001, 1 Green Building 20,000 sq.ft. 1185 Green Buildings, 802 Million sq.ft.
- 24. Trend #3 Green Entrepreneurship
- 34. Trends #6 Green Spaces Gardens – Where they will be?
- 35. Present Cities – Concrete Jungle !!??
- 36. Present need = Cities with Green Spaces
- 37. Concept of Green Roof
- 38. Present Best Practices Green Roofs & Walls
- 40. Future Trend Gardens Inside House / Office
- 41. Residence & Office of Dr Amory Lovins
- 42. Residence cum Office of Dr Amory Lovins, Rocky Mountain Institute
- 51. What we should do As Buyer, Opt for Green Products
- 52. What we should do Insist on ‘Green Landscape and Garden’
- 53. What we should do Virtual Meetings
- 55. Go Green . . .
Hinweis der Redaktion
- One of the important methods to assess the environmental impact at a National and Global level is the quantification of the Ecological Footprint. Ecological Footprint is a measure of how much land and water is needed to produce the resources we consume and to dispose of the waste we generate. Nature has its own way of regenerating and replenishing the natural resources. The generation of oxygen by trees, the treatment of waste and bio-degradation of waste or waste water are few of the examples of regeneration & replenishing by nature.
- If you take the sum total of all the natural resources consumed by the global economic activity and if you calculate the amount of land required to generate and replenishing of the natural resources consumed, we find that based on the estimates of Global Footprint Limited, San Francisco, USA that the world cross the critical point of activity in the year 1986. The graph indicates that after 1986, we the people of the World are living in an unsustainable manner, consuming more natural resources than what the Earth can regenerate. . If you look into the details of the graph the land required is basically expressed in the form of two activities. First is humanity’s needs like food, fiber, built-up area etc., Secondly the land required due to CO 2 emissions is basically because of fossil fuel consumptions. In fact, of late the fossil fuel consumption has drastically increased over a period of the past 4 decades and fundamentally the global warming issues are attributed to the major increase in the Co 2 emissions.
- This is a very interesting slide, indicates which country is an ecological debtor and which country is an ecological creditor. Here, the bio-capacity of a country is compared against the footprint of the country. Bio-capacity of a country is measured based on the total area of productive land in terms of forest, grass land, cropland and fisheries. All the countries marked in maroon are debtors and they are operating at 1.5 times more than their bio-capacity. India and China are in this category. Majority of the developed countries except Australia, Canada and Russia are also in this category. This slide also indicates that the developed & developing countries (like India & China) are consuming the natural resources of other countries.
- This slide talks about physical water scarcity that is likely to happen in the year 2025. Almost 60-70% of the entire India will come under absolute water scarcity. The picture also depicts that the countries marked in deep Red like India and Gulf countries are likely have a physical scarcity of water by the year 2025. The countries marked in orange like Australia will have an economic scarcity of water where water will be available but it has to be purchased at a cost. The countries in blue will have a little or no water scarcity.