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ICLEI provides technical consulting to local governments to identify and meet sustainability objectives. [3] [4] [5] It has a strong focus on biodiversity and has worked across local, national, and global levels. [6] ICLEI was the first and is the largest transnational network of local governments engaging in climate action. [7]
SSP1-1.9: very low GHG emissions: CO 2 emissions cut to net zero around 2050 1.6 °C: 1.4 °C: 1.0 – 1.8 SSP1-2.6: low GHG emissions: CO 2 emissions cut to net zero around 2075 1.7 °C: 1.8 °C: 1.3 – 2.4 SSP2-4.5: intermediate GHG emissions: CO 2 emissions around current levels until 2050, then falling but not reaching net zero by 2100 2.0 ...
The 5 Level Framework (5LF) is a comprehensive model for planning and decision making in complex systems based on whole systems thinking. It comprises 5 levels: 1) System, 2) Success, 3) Strategic Guidelines, 4) Actions and 5) Tools.
The implementation of weak sustainability in governance can be viewed theoretically and practically through Hartwick's rule. [7] In resource economics, Hartwick's rule defines the amount of investment in human capital that is needed to offset declining stocks of non-renewable resources .
The Jordan Aquifer is the largest source of groundwater, extending from northeast Iowa to south central Iowa, and is the source of much of Iowa's agricultural and industrial water. Besides pollution, the aquifer is threatened by overuse in well-source irrigation, ethanol production, and decreased replenishment caused by extensive field tilling.
It was created in 1987 as part of the Iowa Groundwater Protection Act, for which Representative Paul Johnson was the Iowa House floor manager. Between 1987 and 2017, the Center awarded more than 500 research grants to study agriculture issues like conservation buffers, rotational grazing , and building local food economies.
The phrase, "people, planet, and profit" to describe the triple bottom line and the goal of sustainability, was coined by John Elkington in 1994 while at SustainAbility, [3] [9] and was later used as the title of the Anglo-Dutch oil company Shell's first sustainability report in 1997. As a result, one country in which the 3P concept took deep ...
The Framework has been developed by the CDSB Technical Working Group and the Secretariat. Edition 1.0 of the Framework, focusing solely on climate change-related information, was officially launched for public comments in 2009 at the World Business Summit on Climate Change in Copenhagen, Denmark. The Framework was published in September 2010 ...