Samsara: un autre documentaire est possible. Depuis une décennie, les alertes écologiques, la biodiversité en danger, la beauté de notre «maison qui brûle» et l’industrialisation galopante et polluante alimentent une quantité grandissante de documentaires à portée éducative, spectaculaire et souvent moraliste.
D’Une Vérité qui dérange («interprété» par Al Gore, prix Nobel de la paix en 2007 pour son travail d’alerte sur le réchauffement climatique) à Home, en passant par la 11e Heure (produit par Leonardo DiCaprio) ou plus récemment Le Syndrome du Titanic, la Terre est devenue l’actrice bankable de nombre de documentaires. Calibrés sur les mêmes codes (de belles images vues du ciel, un montage soi-disant signifiant mais le plus souvent bassement moralisateur, une voix-off omniprésente), ces films finissent par lasser même les spectateurs les plus convertis à la cause. Publicité La trilogie aux titres imprononçables. Sustainability budgets set to rise in 2013, senior executives say. Corporate spending on sustainability, environmental and energy programs is likely to rise next year, despite a challenging economic backdrop, according to a new survey from analyst firm Verdantix.
The company polled 250 senior sustainability executives from around the world and found that almost half expect spending to increase by between one and nine percent next year, while nine percent expect spending to increase by between 10 and 25 percent. Three percent expect spending to increase by over 25 percent. In contrast, 39 percent expect sustainability spending to be flat and just four percent expect it to fall.
Eco-label recognises earth-friendly manufacturers. Pretoria.
The introduction of an independent eco-label offering internationally competitive recognition for the local manufacturing sector to develop and market environmentally-responsible products was announced by Eco-Choice Africa today. The Eco-Choice Africa (ECA) eco-label provides information and guidance on environmentally responsible products. Not only does this enable manufacturers to achieve external verification for sustainable products, but it also allows consumers to identify and source ‘greener’ products with confidence – which, in turn, stimulates a more sustainable market for responsible manufacturers. The challenges of urbanisation may be even greater in small towns.
Dusk at a shopping centre in Shimla, the capital of Himachal Pradesh state in India.
Smaller urban settlements often lack resources. Photograph: Arcaid Images/Alamy The global population is increasingly gravitating towards urban areas. This shift has already taken place in many small countries, not to mention China, which now has more people living in cities and towns than villages. But even in India – where nearly 70% of the populace is rural, and more than half of all citizens are still reliant upon agriculture – the urban population has grown faster than the rural population over the past decade. This geographical shift is taking place much more rapidly in the developing world than elsewhere. Most of the policy discussion concerning global urbanisation has focused on megacities. Great Barrier Reef loses more than half its coral cover. Coral cover in the Great Barrier Reef has dropped by more than half over the last 27 years, according to scientists, a result of increased storms, bleaching and predation by population explosions of a starfish which sucks away the coral's nutrients.
At present rates of decline, the coral cover will halve again within a decade, though scientists said the reef could recover if the crown-of-thorns starfish can be brought under control and, longer term, global carbon dioxide emissions are reduced. Making growth sustainable. Jeffrey Sachs.
The sustainable development of the world’s rich and poor nations is a hot topic for debate, as world leaders meet at the United Nations general assembly in New York from 25 September to 1 October. A panel of experts appointed by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon met for the first time on Tuesday to begin defining a new approach to sustainable global growth. L'homme, cet animal suicidaire peint par Jared Diamond. LE MONDE CULTURE ET IDEES | • Mis à jour le | Par Frédéric Joignot Il habite à Bel Air, quartier très chic aux jardins luxuriants de Los Angeles, dans une grande maison de bois pleine de gravures animalières.
Www.un.org/en/ecosoc/newfunct/pdf/dcf_australia_jonathan_glennie_may_2012.pdf. Sustainable development is the only way forward. Brazil's environment minister Izabella Teixeira at the launch of the Vision 2050 report ahead of the Rio +20 conference on sustainable development.
3 keys to making sustainability central to success. Daily chart: A rubbish map. The road to Rio +20: women and the green economy. What will Rio+20 mean for the many millions of poor women across the world, struggling with the effects of poverty, climate change, and environmental degradation?
Nidhi Tandon, Gender & Development Editorial Advisor and author of the forthcoming UN Women's paper on Rio+20 and the Green Economy, gives her view. The concept of the 'green economy' is a complex one, and the international community has yet to come to a political consensus on its meaning, use, usefulness, ensuing policy implications, or what actually constitutes a green economy. The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) believes that to achieve equitable and sustainable development there needs to be a balance between the economy, society, and the environment.