A workshop about ecological footprints and how You can make a difference!

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Logo, how large is your footprint

The Workshops Agendao Introduction to the NGO Svalorna Indien Bangladesh

o Introduction to the campaign Ecological Footprints

o Buzz-session: What is an ecological footprints?

o What are the facts?

o What are the environmental consequences?

o A global perspective

o What is climate injustice/justice?

o Group exercise: whom is responsible/what can be done?

o What is in our power to do?

o Evaluation

o Homework: write your own environmental vowl

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Svalorna Indien Bangladesh

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About the Swallows IB

What is an ecological footprint?

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nP1nzCqoT9g

Buzz-session: What is an ecological footprint?

•Have you heard of this concept before?

•How is it tied to sustainable development?

•How it is related to humans? To the environment?•Do you & your neighbour next to you have an ecological footprint?

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Ecological Footprints: the facts

• Indicator that measures how us humans influences the environment

• By showing how large land and sea areal that is required for what we consume and produce. Also, in order to take care of the waste that we leave after us.

• The footprint is an indicator that can apply to a person, a city, a country and/or the whole world.

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Ecological Footprints: the human strains

• Food – meat, plants, grown crops• Clothes, cosmetics, jewelery, “stuff”• Travelling – roads and transports• Housing – heating, appliances, furniture• Cities – buildings, roads, industries• The energy we use

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Ecological Footprints – a global perspective

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If everyone lived as the average…

...Swede, we would need 3 planets

...Indian, we would need half a planet

…American, we would need more than 5 planets

Total ecological footprint for the whole of humanity

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Bildreferens: http://www.sp.se/sv/index/services/environment/sidor/default.aspx

Consequences for our climate:

• The earth’s biodiversity is threatened • Extreme weather will become more frequent• Shortage of water and draught of large areas• Flooding• Rise of sea level (1-1,6 m this century) • Threat for coral reafes• Tröskeleffekter (flera saker påverkar varandra, vi kommer över

en tröskel och det går inte att vända utvecklingen)• Större osäkerhet och oförutsägbarhet

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Consequences for humanity – ongoing climate injustice

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•Climate justice vs. climate injustice

•Poor/marginalized people have smaller ecological footprints than richer people

•This group of people are the ones usually influenced in a negative way by climate changes that are a consequence of our big ecological footprints

4 corners exercise – let’s get moving!

Question 1: What are the gravest consequences of our consumtion and production have for the environment and our climate?

Question 2: Who bares the most responsibility to balance the injustice that exists today for both humans and the environment?

Question 3: What would environmental justice be? (Everyone with equal sized footsteps that fits one earth)

Question 4: Now that we’ve clarified what eco-footprints are – what do you want to do with yours? (increase, decrease, keep stable, non of the three?

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Homework: write your own environmental vow

Good websites for more facts, knowledge & tools:(links are in the back of the brochure)

Footprint calculators http://footprint.wwf.org.uk/http://myfootprint.org/en/

Feel free to e-mail us for more info & if you have questions/comments!

E mail adress

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Time for evaluation – thank you!

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