Skip to main content

Is Resilience the New Sustainability?

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2010


Is Resilience the New Sustainability?

"Resilience is the ability to absorb ecological, social and economic changes."
Andres Edwards, the author of Thriving Beyond Sustainability


The International Energy Agency (IEA) has just released it's World Energy Outlook 2010 and it looks like oil may have reached it's peak in 2006. According to the IEA's report, which looked at the next 25-years of oil production, the most likely scenario is for oil production to stay on it's plateau of about 68 to 69 million barrels per day. The IEA says in this scenario oil "never regains its all-time peak of 70 million barrels per day reached in 2006." This is the first year that the IEA's report has not shown oil production rising for the next couple of decades. With the end of cheap oil likely in slight we may have to think past sustainability and think more about resilience.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Great News with Unilever!

Unilever commits to 75% sustainable packaging Unilever made a well-timed move to commit to sustainable sourcing of packaging in July with research studies showing consumers will change purchasing decisions to support this type of ethical commitment. Unilever published its sustainable paper and board packaging sourcing policy as part of its commitment to double the size of the business while reducing its environmental impact. The policy outlines the Unilever’s ambitious goal to work with its suppliers to source 75 per cent of its paper and board packaging from sustainably managed forests or from recycled material by 2015, rising to 100 per cent by 2020. The commitment makes Unilever the first global FMCG company to commit to sourcing all of its paper and board packaging from sustainably managed forests or recycled material within a clearly defined timeframe. For the company’s requirements for paper from virgin sources, preference will be given to supplies delivered through the Forest ...
Post a Comment
Read more

Industry moves to sustainable palm oil

By Warren Beaumont There is global concern over palm oil being sourced from Indonesia and South East Asia where tropical forests have been cleared to make way for plantations, which have threatened the orangutan. This has led to major food retailers and suppliers to introduce plans to source sustainable palm oil or to ban palm oil in food. Nestle announced it had stopped sourcing palm oil from the Indonesian company Sinar Mas and was moving to meet high standards for sustainability. Unilever suspended purchases of palm oil from PT SMART, part of the Sinar Mas group. It followed allegations by Greenpeace that Sinar Mas, Indonesia’s biggest palm oil producer, had been responsible for widespread deforestation and peatland clearance. French supermarket giant Casino has announced that it will no longer use palm oil in 200 of its private label products by the end of 2010 and will eventually remove palm oil from all its food products, citing concerns over palm oil’s environmental impact and h...
Post a Comment
Read more