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Climate change

• About two-thirds of greenhouse gas emissions are linked to our everyday lives

• Extreme weather costing the world around 16.3 million US dollars per hour

• Global temperatures rose about 1.1⁰C from 1901 to 2020

• Spring snow cover is disappearing earlier in the year

• Unsustainable activities release greenhouse gases

• University of Reading climate stripes

Impact on the environment

• Fossil fuels

• More acidic oceans are harming sea life

• Non-renewable resources

• Overview of greenhouse gases

• Renewable resources

• Replacement rate: replacing resources at the rate we use them

Global action on climate and sustainability

• Our Common Future  – the ‘Brundtland Report’, 1987

• Millennium Development Goals – 2000 to 2015

• Sustainable Development Goals – 2016 to 2030

Ethical considerations

• Ethical Consumer – “all the information and inspiration you need”

• Ethics of sustainability – quite a heavy read but worth dipping into

• Good Shopping Guide – “leading independent authority on the ethical comparisons of companies and brands”

• Is sustainability an ethical issue? – difficult choices need to be made, says news and opinion website Green Matters

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