GREEN ECONOMY:
RECENT ACCELERATORS
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NO. 1 thing which inluenced the environment in
last 12 months?
WHAT WAS IT FOR YOU and how???
Political changes and policies?
Economic impact of pandemia?
Nature disasters?
WHAT IMPACT ON ENVIRONMENT / ECONOMICS?
Politics and policies:
• Trump is gone
• Green Deal approved and launched
• Climate Summit in Glasgow (COP26), emission trading
approved
• States, cities, corporation announcing their zero carbon
plans and strategies
WHAT IMPACT ON ENVIRONMENT / ECONOMICS?
GLOBAL EXTERNAL UNCERTAINTIES:
• Impact of pandemia
• Collapse of global supply chains
• Energy crises
• Accelerated disasters on all continents
June tornado, 6 SM villages destroyed in 2 hours
July 2021 flash flood on the Ahr river
Implications of COP26 and of the Green Deal
New situation stop talking, start acting
• Price for carbon emmissions
• Ambitious zero carbon strategies (2030, latest 2050 – to
keep global warming bellow 1,5 C increase)
• New opportunities for decarbonized business
• Booster for green economy an innovations
CARBON FOOTPRINT REPORT 50 CZ COMPANIES
Data 2019, study published by
• 44 % reporting only as part of global corporation
• 10 % reports for the Czech operation
• 46 % do not report neither inform at all
• 52 % commits decreace of CO2 emissions (85% foreign)
• 78 % non-disclosure are CZ companies
• 88 % having commitments reflect them in their plans
• 6 companies published zero carbon commitment
Structure of the carbon footprint
Example of food companies
To keep the global warming bellow 1,5 C growth
ASAHI strategic goals
Indirect impacts of GHG company commitments
Unexpected coalitions for agriculture reform
Risks
• Complexity of ecosystems compared to business KPIs
• Overestimating CO2 emissions market
• Off setting – new business models; reputation risk of the
whole concept
• Example of tree plantings
• 1 tree 80 years (2100) – 3,5 tons CO2
• In 30 years (2050) – 1,2 tons CO2
• Fair reporting – annual growth of biomass
• Other ecological functions of trees are more important than
sequestration of CO2
• Carbon seq potential of other then forest ecosystems?
wetlands, meadows, peatlands, humus in farming soils
GREEN ECONOMY: EXCUSE OR SOLUTION?
Q 1: CAN TECHNOLOGY ITSELF COMBAT GLOBAL
IMPACT OF GROWING POPULATION ON CLIMATE
CHANGE AND ON DEGRADATION OF ECOSYSTEMS?
Q 2: IS THE CONSUMER SOCIETY PREPARED AND ABLE
TO CHANGE ITS BEHAVIOUR? WHAT MAKES IT
HAPPEN? DID GRETA THUNBERG START IT?
Q 3: WILL COVID19 CRISES ACCELARATE REFORM OF
THE WORLD ECONOMY OR IS IT GOING TO BE FLASH
BACK?
Q 4: WHAT EACH OF US CAN DO ON INDIVIDUAL LEVEL?
PILLARS OF THE GREEN ECONOMY:
• Karl Burkart defines a green economy as based on six main
sectors:[6]
• Renewable energy
• Green buildings
• Sustainable transport
• Water management
• Waste management
• Land management
TRANSITION TOWARDS GREEN ECONOMY
10 CONDITIONS:
• Open and competitive markets
• Metrics, accounting, and reporting
• Finance and investment
• Awareness
• Life cycle approach
• Resource efficiency and decoupling
• Employment
• Education and skills
• Governance and partnership
• Integrated policy and decision-making
GREEN ECONOMY: FACTOR 4, FACTOR 10
CIRCULAR ECONOMY, ZERO CARBON…..
Factor 10 evolved from the less dramatic Factor 4
Early 90-ies by L. Hunter Lovins and Amory Lovins of the
Rocky Mountain Institute and Ernst von Weizsäcker, from the
Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment & Energy.
Factor 4 explains how simple it is for nations to achieve
400% savings with existing technologies.
The goal of Factor 10 is to assure that nations do not exceed
the planet’s carrying capacity but leave sufficient resources
for future generations.
Latest concept of circular economy
is based on SDGs (EU-2014)
First priority: no consumption!
GREEN ECONOMY
Increasing share of „green bussineses“ on the markets:
Energy sector
Smart cities and green buildings, E-mobility
Recycling, Organic agriculture, food, cosmetics, etc.
ENERGY SHIFT IN EUROPE
RENEWABLE ENERGY FIRST – HOT ISSUE!
RENEWABLE ENERGY FIRST: WIND
SOLAR ENERGY
RENEWABLES GLOBALLY
ELECTRIC CARS
ORGANIC AGRICULTURE, precise farming
Innovations, young farmers
NEW CONCEPT: REGENERATIVE AGRICULTURE
More direct connection with carbon sequestration
More acceptable by standard farming companies while
improving biodiversity and nutrient cycle
Supprted by food corporations
Challenge in controlling mechanisms
COVID and the green economy: 5 insights
1. Economies have been even harder hit than all
expectations
2. The Green Economy has emerged as one of the top
solutions to the global crisis
• Green spending is already shaping national and regional stimulus and recovery
packages, with the EU leading the charge by doubling down on their Green Deal
3. Government is back in favour but the social contract is
under considerable pressure from all directions
4. There have been winners and losers in the business
and finance world
OECD: "at least two of three jobs at risk are in an SME, and more than 30 percent of all jobs
at risk are found within microenterprises consisting of nine employees or fewer"
• 5. The call for “system reform” is coming from both
usual and unusual suspects
FACTOR 10 IN PRACTICE
Zero Carbon facility Open Gardens
http://www.otevrenazahrada.cz/energie
http://www.otevrenazahrada.cz/OZ-2/files/d8/d8bfe14b-ab62-43bb-879a-
e0644b9181eb.pdf
FIGHT FOR WATER AND UHI
100 HECTARS ARABLE LAND BUILT PER DAY !
= 1 MILLION SQ METRES PER DAY
FIGHT FOR WATER AND UHI
GREEN ECONOMY: EXCUSE OR SOLUTION?
Q 1: CAN TECHNOLOGY ITSELF COMBAT GLOBAL
IMPACT OF GROWING POPULATION ON CLIMATE
CHANGE AND ON DEGRADATION OF ECOSYSTEMS?
Q 2: IS THE CONSUMER SOCIETY PREPARED AND ABLE
TO CHANGE ITS BEHAVIOUR? WHAT MAKES IT
HAPPEN? DID GRETA THUNBERG START IT?
Q 3: WILL COVID19 CRISES ACCELARATE REFORM OF
THE WORLD ECONOMY OR IS IT GOING TO BE FLASH
BACK?
Q 4: WHAT EACH OF US CAN DO ON INDIVIDUAL LEVEL?
WHAT DO WE NEED FOR SOCIAL CHANGE?
 More data, more evidence?
 More examples?
 Leadership? (Zero C business by 2050?)
 Stricter laws, policies?
 Big crises or catastrophy? War for resources?
 Exodus of nations?
 Revolution?
 Back on trees?
 Start action on individual level!
Thank you for attention
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