Future of Sustainability 2030
Welcome to the Future of Sustainability in 2030
Group Members
Yojiro Fukaya
Eric Lam
Yunzhu (Carrie) Ma
Hugh Malkin
Kay Mei Tan
Introduction
"Sustainable Development is a process of change in which the exploitation of resources, the direction of investments, the orientation of technological development; and institutional change are all in harmony and enhance both current and future potential to meet human needs and aspirations." from the United Nations Report of the World Commission on Environment and Development: Our Common Future (Brundtland Commission) http://www.un-documents.net/ocf-02.htm#I
Or in other words:
Sustainable Development meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs
Sustainable development deals with Social Equity, the Economy, and the Environment
Research Questions
- Definition
- General
- How much oil is left in the world? When will oil run out?
- Which Fossil Fuels give off most Carbon Dioxide? What are the worst Fossil Fuels?
- What is the history of sustainability?
- Envirnoment
- What is the rate of Ice melt?
- How is sustainability measured?
- Why does sustainability matter?
- What are the effects of sustainability?
- What are the factors of sustainability?
- What is the motivation for companies to work for sustainability?
- How will growth in developing countries effect on sustainability?
- What is the urgent issue relating to sustainability?
- What can we do as a individual?
- Is sustainability a slow or fast change?
- What changes are present day solutions and which are long-term solutions?
- What is the balance of profits and sustainability?
- Is less bad of sustainability actually good? What is the goal of sustainability? What is sufficient?
- What is measurable?
- Where should the solution come from? Is there a universal answer?
- What is the value of the global services for sustainability e.g. air and water purification, agricultural pollination, nutrient cycling, soil enrichment, climate stabilization, medicinal products and drought mitigation?
- What would happen if we do not work on sustainability?
- How much should be done?
- Who should be responsible for sustainability e.g. government, individuals, country?
- How bad is the current situation?
- What happeneds if we slow growth? Does that mean that we do not need to work on sustainability?
- Regulation
- Energy
- What are the current major ways of power generation
- What is the most efficient power generation method in terms of cost and CO2 emission?
- What to extent cost of renewable energy will be cheeper?
- Technology
- What are the key technologies?
- Can technological development solve environmental issues dramatically?
- Resource
- What is the outlook of world energy in the next 20 years?
- Is water the Key Limiting Factor?
- Will other natural resource, other than energy, play serious roles in the future sustainability?
- What are the other threats to sustainability?
- How do human beings interact with/affect natural resource?
- What are the energy trends in Inida and China?
- What are the impacts of climate change to the future sustainability?
- Value
- What is the most important value for sustainability?
- What is the method evaluating values?
- What are the values of the worlds leading polluters?
- Pollution
- Population
- Education
Driving Forces
- Sustainable Resources
- Alternative Energy
- Technological Development
- Education
- Business
- Economy
- Regulations for Sustainability
- Values
- Population
- Pollution
Systems Diagram
1st draft
Final version
Scenario Tree
