Course for RSPO CB Forum

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Biodiversity The Big Challenge

• Course for RSPO CB Forum Workshop No. 3

• What is sustainable development?

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Biodiversity
What it is, what it is worth, what is happening
to it, and what to do about it

• Key concepts related to sustainability,
  biodiversity and ecosystem services.
• The value of biodiversity, what is happening to
  ecosystem services, understanding habitat loss
  and fragmentation, and the importance of scale.

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What is Sustainable Development?
Bruntland Report 1987
UN General Assembly 1997 Agenda 21 5
WSSD 2002 Johannesburg Plan of Implementation

• "Sustainable development is development that
  meets the needs of the present without
  compromising the ability of future generations to
  meet their own needs
• Bruntland Report

• Earth Summit 1992
• Rio Declaration on Environment Development
• Agenda 21
• Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)
• Forest Principles
• Framework Convention on Climate Change (FCCC)

• A21 National Strategies for Sustainable
  Development - NSSD
• CBD National Biodiversity Planning Framework

• Since 7th MP aspects relating to environment
  natural resources are included
• 9MP Environmental stewardship to continue to
  ensure optimal balance between develop-ment and
  environment

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Sustainable Development
Lesson 1 What is sustainable development?

• "Sustainable development is development that
  meets the needs of the present without
  compromising the ability of future generations to
  meet their own needs
• Bruntland Report

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What is Sustainable Development?
Lesson 1
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What is Sustainable Development?
Lesson 1
Social equity
Sustainable Development
Local State Regional National Global
Agenda 21
Bearable environment
Viable economy
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What is Sustainable Development?
Lesson 1
Sustainable Development
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What is Sustainable Development?
Lesson 1
Society
Economy
Sustainable Development
Environment
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Environmentally Sustainable Development
Lesson 1 What is sustainable development?

• Critical resource stocks and ecological functions
  must be safeguarded
• Depletion and deterioration must be kept within
  acceptable levels or safe margins
• Losses of natural capital 1 must be compensated
  for
• Since the flow of services from ecosystems
  requires that they function as whole systems, the
  structure and diversity of the system are
  important components of natural capital.

• Natural capital is the extension of the economic
  notion of capital (i.e. manufactured means of
  production) to environmental goods and services.
  A functional definition of capital in general is
  "a stock that yields a flow of valuable goods or
  services into the future".

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Sustainable development processes
Lesson 1 What is sustainable development?

• Institutions and mechanisms
• Which produce decisions to balance social,
  economic and environmental objectives, and which
  ensure they are implemented
• Activities on the ground
• Which add good environmental, social and/or
  economic practice to what might otherwise have
  been narrower goals.

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Conclusions
Lesson 1 What is sustainable development?

• Sustainable development is an almost universally
  accepted goal
• Assessment by systematically collecting and
  judging information can help determine progress
• Earth Summit in 1992 called for all GOs to
  produce National Strategies for Sustainable
  Development (NSSD) by 2002. This was reiterated
  at the World Summit for Sustainable Development
  in Johannesburg in 2002.
• The National Information Focal Point for NSSD in
  Malaysia is EPU/ENRES
• An early experience with Sustainable Development
  is represented by a number of projects in Malaysia

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Conclusions
Lesson 1 What is sustainable development?

• 3 pillar concept has evolved

• Environmental sustainability means that critical
  resource stocks and ecological functions must be
  safeguarded, depletion must be kept within
  acceptable levels, and losses of natural capital
  must be compensated for.

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Lesson 1 What is sustainable development?
ESI is based on 21 indicators and it benchmarks
the ability of nations to protect the environment
over the next several decades
Yale University Columbia University, 2005.
Environmental sustainability index. Benchmarking
National Environmental Stewardship. Summary for
policy makers. www.yale.edu/esi