WWFs 4 scenarios
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- Created on: 05-01-17 16:33
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- WWF's 4 scenarios
- Background
- WWF's living planet report has also attempted to model ways of ending the ecological deficit
- Ecological deficit: the amount by which the ecological footprint exceeds the biological capacity of the space available to that population
- defining scenariosdoesnt mean that this will invetiablyhappen
- the future is unpredictable and is shaped by peoples attitudes,economicstate and the decision makers
- Business as usual
- leading to an increased ecological footprint
- no reduction in the overshoot or the degree of which consumption exceeds biological capacties
- everyone just carries on as they are now , no policies or control measures put in place
- Slow shift
- gradually reducing the ecological footprint
- reducing the footprint by developing many sustainable policies so that biological capacities by 2100
- long term global treaties and policies
- Rapid reduction
- producing radical policies to control ecological footprints
- wants to eliminate the overshoot by 2040
- Global short term treatys
- shrink and share
- breaking down the world into regions
- sharing a responsibility of controlling the overshoot by global cooperation
- regions have there own responsibility
- Background
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