By: Sydney Mayer and Samantha Martin
Definitions:
- Environmental Science - The science of the interactions between the physical, chemical, and biological components of the environment, including their effects on all type of organisms but more often refers to human impact on the environment.
- Natural Resources - Materials or substances such as minerals, forests, water, and fertile land that occur in nature and can be used for economic gain, the natural wealth of the country.
- Ecosystem Services - The benefits people obtain from ecosystems and the important benefits for human beings that arise from healthily functioning ecosystems, such as the production of food and water. They fall into different categories of regulating, such as the control of climate and disease; supporting, such as nutrient cycles and crop pollination; and cultural, such as spiritual and recreational benefits.
Sydney 2.0 Goals:
- Use the resources provided near Sydney to support the city
- Do not overuse natural resources
- Recycle and reuse everything
- Improve marine and land ecosystems for use by humans and animals
- End hunger and poverty
- Build resilient infrastructure
- Rely less on fossil fuels and other non-renewable energy sources
- Conserve and use the oceans sustain-ably
- Preserve sea and marine resources for sustainable development
- Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems
- Sustain-ably manage forests
- Combat desertification
- Halt and reverse land degradation
- Halt biodiversity loss
- Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development.