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Key Survey

How do you identify and align yourself?  demographically, groups, countries, socieites, other?

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What are society's 3 best strategies and priorities now?

How do you help?  CTA

Key Concepts

Group Purpose

Code of Conduct > Recognize and respect differences between us as people, countries on values, goals, plans, commitments

• We are committed to offering a safe and welcoming forum for all.
• We treat each other with respect, professionalism, fairness, and sensitivity for our many differences and strengths at all times.
• We do not tolerate particlpation by individuals or groups that don't meet these standards

Mission

• Understand key opportunities, challenges and solutions available to improve health, wealth, environment sustainability for all 

How we do it

• Connect with many communiities and stakeholders to understand their opportunities, challenges and solutions to meet their sustainability goals, plans
• Identify, research opportunities, challenges and solutions to meet sustainability goals, plans of different communities and the related impacts
• Identify common areas on goals, plans, solutions across communities to share that can improve effectiveness and efficiency in meeting their goals

Comparison to WEF Code of Conduct, Mission, Principles

WEF Code of Conduct

• The World Economic Forum adheres to the principles of independence, impartiality, moral integrity and intellectual integrity.

WEF Mission

• The Forum engages the foremost political, business, cultural and other leaders of society to shape global, regional and industry agendas.
• Our activities are shaped by a unique institutional culture founded on the stakeholder theory, which asserts that an organization is accountable to all parts of society. The institution carefully blends and balances the best of many kinds of organizations, from both the public and private sectors, international organizations and academic institutions.
  • how well does WEF actually adhere to its own mission? what stakeholder groups actually have representation? how?

WEF Principles

1. Strengthen global cooperation
   1. advance long-term security and humanitarian objectives for SDG 16
2. Advance peace and security
   1. promote good governance, strong institutions and social cohesion.
3. Re-globalize equitably
   1. new global social contract .. that.. reduces inequity and addresses debt burdens globally.
4. Promote gender equality
   1. prevent gender-based violence and discrimination .. respect of women’s human rights.
5. Rebuild sustainably
   1. measures should advance .. practices ... consistent with 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
   2. need to create a sustainable, inclusive and climate-resilient future.
   3. raise the trillions of dollars in investments that are needed.
6. Deepen public-private partnerships
   1. funding for innovation and .. direct resources towards education, infrastructure, technology and humanitarian priorities.
7. Increase global resilience
   1. better global trading systems
      

Comment on WEF Principles

SOME DISAGREEMENT ON GOALS AND PRIORITIES
LOTS OF ROOM FOR DISAGREEMENT ON HOW PRINCIPLES ARE REALIZED

Key Questions on Technology Value to Solve Health, Climate, Economic and Sustainability Challenges

What are the key Health, Climate, Economic and Sustainability Challenges?

How are these challenges prioritized? What are the tradeoffs between them?

Who is collaborating to solve these challenges? 5WH?

Who benefits from solving these challenges? 5WH?

Who is investing to solve these challenges? 5WH?

What technologies can contribute to these Climate Change Challenges and Solutions?  How?

DLT

AI

IoT

Automation

Smart systems >>. SSM, SDM, STM, SLM, SRM, SIM, SGM, 

What technology solutions are in progress or planned?

UN SDGs: 17 Sustainability Development Goals

https://www.globalgoals.org/goals/

The UN SDGs > Details

1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere
2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture
3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages
4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all
5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls
6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all
7. Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all
8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all
9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation
10. Reduce inequality within and among countries
11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable
12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns
13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts
14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development
15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss
16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels
17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development

UN recognizes population growth contributes to problems meeting SDG goals

https://www.un.org/development/desa/pd/sites/www.un.org.development.desa.pd/files/undesa_pd_2022_policy_brief_population_growth.pdf

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UN-population-growth-undesa_pd_2022_policy_brief_population_growth.pdf file

Key trends on population that impact sustainability and climate

https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/population-by-country/

1. Most developed countries have slowing population growth that is dropping below replacement rate in some countries
2. Legal immigration may help countries that want to maintain their population size
3. Many less developed countries have high population growth rates ( though those rates are slowing somewhat ) that contribute to
   1. increasing poverty,
   2. human rights abuses,
   3. health issues in those countries
4. Some countries have policies to manage population growth and some clearly don't
5. The US has the highest sustained legal immigration rate in the World averaging over 1 million per year
6. The Biden administration open borders progam increased illegal migrants 500% adding over 10 million more creating massive problems in the US

Key Questions NOT addressed by WEF

What global authorities and regulations supercede national authorities and regulations?  5WH? 

if per capita carbon emissions drop 20% but world population doubles what happens to the climate, sustainability?

Is open borders the best option to solve poverty or should migration be managed by country policies?

Can managing population growth, increasing per capita median incomes reduce inequality and improve outcomes by country?

Can countries define social insurance programs that are effective, self sustaining economically?

Can countries effectively control the growth of government deficits that burden future generations?

What policies have governments targeted for growth in real per capita median incomes, population management?

Does the UN add value in reducing war, persecution of groups within countries?

Which forms of government are best to ensure best sustainable outcomes for a countrys population on health, wealth, social relations?

Updated Population Growth Trends - March 2023 - UN

https://www.earth4all.life/news/global-population-could-peak-below-9-billion-in-2050s

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UN-E4A_People-and-Planet_Report.pdf  link

UN on Climate Change

Intergovernmental panel on climate change - 6th review - UNEP

climate-2023-UN-IPCC_AR6_SYR_SlideDeck.pdf file

climate-2023-UN-IPCC_AR6_SYR_SlideDeck.pdf link

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AR6 - Presentation Concepts

AR6 - Headline Statements

https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/syr/resources/spm-headline-statements/

UN Focus on Water Problems - 2023

https://news.yahoo.com/vampiric-water-leading-imminent-global-230642899.html?spot_im_highlight_immediate=true&spot_im_reply_id=sp_Rba9aFpG_38e3aba0-99c2-3b60-9385-1a94d56f04fd_c_2NOCpCxsBOBD94lcLy1nzigztiQ_r_2NODKLzufCow5C956RyE3fjS2jP&utm_source=spotim&utm_medium=e-mail&utm_campaign=replied-message&spot_im_redirect_source=email

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With the global population increasing every day, "in absolute numbers, there'll be more and more people that don't have access to these services," he said.

2023 United Nations World Water Development Report 

https://www.unesco.org/reports/wwdr/2023/en

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The 2023 United Nations World Water Development Report on Partnerships and Cooperation assesses the nature and role of partnerships and cooperation among stakeholders in water resources management and development and their role in accelerating progress towards water goals and targets.

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UNESCO: François Wibaux, f.wibaux@unesco.org, +33145680746 

World Water Assessment Programme

https://www.unesco.org/en/wwap

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Its overall objective is “to meet the growing requirements of UN Member States and the international community for a wider range of policy-relevant, timely and reliable information in various fields of water resources developments and management, in particular through the production of the United Nations World Water Development Report (UN WWDR)”. Consequently, WWAP, through the World Water Development Reprts and complementary activities, aims to equip water managers and policy- and decision-makers with knowledge, tools and skills necessary to formulate and implement sustainable water policies

UN Groundwater Report 2022

https://www.unesco.org/reports/wwdr/2022/en

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UN-water-unesco.org-Groundwater making the invisible visible.pdf file

Groundwater accounts for 99% of liquid freshwater on Earth and is the source of one quarter of all the water used by humans. Large volumes of fresh groundwater are present below ground surface and distributed over the entire globe; however, this volume of freshwater is irregularly distributed over the continents.

An easy and open access resource to numerous people, leading to common pool characteristics, groundwater offers tremendous opportunities to society for gaining social, economic and environmental benefits and its contribution to satisfying our demand for water is considerable.

Groundwater already provides half of the volume of water withdrawn for domestic use by the global population, including the drinking water for the vast majority of the rural population who do not get their water delivered to them via public or private supply systems and around 25% of all water withdrawn for irrigation.

Potential Value Opportunities

Potential Challenges

AMOC - Atlantic Meridianol Overturning Circulation - predictions improving

Collapse of Ocean Currents. link 

A study published Monday concluded that melting ice in Greenland caused by climate change could cause the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) to collapse as soon as 2025, ushering in dramatic consequences for the planet.

The AMOC brings warm water north and east from the Caribbean, while delivering colder Arctic water south. If it were to suddenly shut down, scientists believe North America would experience weather changes such as more severe hurricanes and northern Europe would get a lot colder.

In recent years, studies have shown that the current is at its weakest in 1,000 years. Although scientists are not certain why, several studies have attributed that weakening to an influx of fresh water from the melting of Arctic sea ice, including the Greenland ice sheet, and increasing precipitation — both of which are results of global warming. 

The AMOC is driven by heavier cold water sinking, which raises warm water to the surface, but since fresh water is lighter than salt water, it has reduced the tendency of colder water near the surface to sink.

an AMOC collapse would have wide-ranging effects including increased sea level rise in the Atlantic, a drop in precipitation over Europe and North America,

at the end of the last ice age, when studies suggest a “flood of freshwater spilled into the Atlantic, halting the AMOC and plunging much of the Northern Hemisphere — especially Europe — into deep cold” that lasted 1,000 years.

How People Live Impacts Environment - Old vs Young

https://www.yahoo.com/news/greta-thunberg-her-gen-z-070000637.html

In January 2020, for example, Greta Thunberg and a group of other leading “youth climate activists” co-wrote a scathing public statement in which they declared that, when it comes to the climate, “Young people are being let down by older generations and those in power.”

according to a fascinating new poll by YouGov, the old actually seem to be doing more to tackle climate change than the young.

In the poll, those aged 18-24 claimed to be the most worried about climate change. When it came to doing something other than moan, however, it was a different story. Almost 90 per cent of the over-65s said they recycled “as much as possible”, compared with only half of the young. The old were also more likely to save water, turn down the heating, wash their clothes at low temperatures, buy locally produced food, avoid excessive packaging, buy energy-efficient appliances, switch off the lights when leaving a room, and repair things rather than throw them away. On top of that, more of them had cut down on the number of flights they took.

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What are we to make of this mysterious discrepancy? Perhaps Greta’s generation is in such deep despair about the future of the planet that some of them have simply given up trying to save it. There is, however, an alternative possibility – which is that they care more about being seen to have the “right” opinion on climate change than they do about tackling it. A type of behaviour that older people like to call “virtue-signalling”.

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