Sustainability

• And the lifetime risk of a Yellowstone supervolcano eruption is based on yearly risk expanded out to the average US lifespan of 78.74 years.
• While concerns about a potential eruption of the supervolcano beneath Yellowstone park may garner the most alarming headlines, a more likely hazard in the coming decades is a large earthquake.
• Scientists fear an underwater supervolcano off the coast of Japan could blow and kill 100 million people.
• Underwater supervolcano could erupt without warning and kill 100 million people after scientists find a 6-mile wide lava dome growing off the coast of Japan: But the risk of a caldera eruption hitting Japan is just 1% in the next 100 years
• A supervolcano in Japan could erupt within the next 100 years as geologists recently discovered it beginning to wake up from a 7,300 -year-old slumber.
• There are 20 known supervolcanoes which have the potential to erupt and have a major effect on the global climate.
• An eruption of a supervolcano could trigger a collapse of the global agricultural and economic systems and result in the deaths of potentially millions of people.
• Scientists at NASA have developed a hugely ambitious strategy to counter the looming threat of an apocalyptic supereruption from the Yellowstone Caldera.
• Scientists at NASA are convinced that the threat of a supervolcano erupting from the magma chamber under Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho is greater than the threat of an asteroid or comet hitting the earth.
• The vast quantities of lava and ash that are spewed out of the Earth during supervolcano events have the potential to cause long-lasting climate change that could trigger a life-threatening ice age or global warming.
• Seismologists have discovered a massive magma reservoir beneath the Yellowstone supervolcano in Wyoming, US, that suggests its volcanic system could be more than 5.6 times larger than was previously thought.
• Through associated national strategies and the implementation of the National Strategic Plan for Non-Communicable Disease 2016-2025, the Malaysian government aims to reduce the risk factors for NCDs to achieve the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
• The US health system targeted reduced waste and water use, with the goal of having 100% sustainable or local food and a 25% decrease in water usage by 2025.
• Sustainable Development Scenario outlines path to global net zero emissions by 2070, targets limiting global temperature rise to 1.65 °C and global CO2 emissions falling to less than 10bn tons by 2050.
• Development of an indigenous green hydrogen industry could generate £320bn for the UK economy and sustain up to 120,000 jobs by 2050.
• Last year Luxembourg launched a 10-step framework to implement the United Nations' 17 sustainable development goals and drafted a climate law to cut greenhouse emissions by 55% until 2030.
• Europe's crop protection industry has adopted a set of ambitious commitments to support Europe's new Green Deal, including an investment of over €14 billion in new technologies and more sustainable products by 2030.
• The IEA's Sustainable Development Scenario - a roadmap for meeting international climate and energy goals - brings the global energy system to net-zero emissions by 2070, incorporating aspects of behavioural change alongside a profound transformation in energy system technology and infrastructure.
• BT's environmental sustainability drive for the past decade, has seen the telecoms giant hit a raft of sustainability goals early in its quest to become a net zero company by 2045.
• Global food loss and waste is the focus of Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) Target 12, which aims at halving wastage by 2030.
• To meet the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030, approximately $7 trillion in private sector capital needs to be unlocked in developing countries.
• More than $12 trillion can be released into the global economy if the UN's Sustainable Development Goals are realised, creating 380 million new jobs by 2030.
• Progress towards Sustainable Development Goal 6 on access to clean water and sanitation for all before 2030 is worryingly off-track, bringing to light the challenges facing the water sector worldwide.

Last updated: 04 October 2020