Global Resources ObservatoryCountry Resource Maps
Tracey Zalk – Visiting Fellow Global Sustainability Institute, Anglia
Ruskin University
Presentation• Introduction to project
• Potential implications / applications
• Maps
• Additional Resources
• References
• Q&A
Introduction
• 1972: Club of Rome produced a report the Limits to Growth
• 2012: Institute and Faculty of Actuaries commissioned-report Implications of Limits to Growth for the Actuarial Profession
• 2013: Start of Global Resources Observatory project
Potential implications / applications
Implicit assumption underlying risk models ?
• Calibration• Parameterisation• Choice of model / technique• Modellable
Recent past best possible guide to the future
Introduction to maps
• Reason for choice– Essential Resources: Water, Food, Energy– Future credit line: Government Debt, Private Debt– Societal cohesion: Income Inequality, Under 5 mortality
• Snapshots / Time series: 2000, 2005, 2010
Water - 2010
Food - 2010
Oil - 2010
Gas - 2010
Coal - 2010
Government Debt - 2010
Private Debt - 2010
Income Inequality - 2010
Under 5 Mortality - 2010
Additional Resources• Global Resources Observatory future outputs:
More to come
• ISSA Document on megatrends:www.issa.int “Social security and megatrends – Climate change and natural resource scarcity”
• App: – Developed independently of Global Sustainability Institute– For reference rather than endorsement
Reference
Report and information about the project:www.tinyurl.com/GSI-GRO
Author list:Dr Aled Jones, Dr Irene Monasterolo, Victor Anderson, Tracey Zalk, Alex Philips, Julie-Anne Hogbin, Davide Natalini, Roberto Pasqualino, Efundem Agboraw, Catherine Cameron, Nick Silver and Ella Wiles
The Global Resource Observatory is grateful to the Peter Dawe Charitable Trust for the
donation that has made this work possible.
Questions
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