Danube Strategy: Question, Challenge Opportunity Andreas Beckmann, Director WWF Danube-Carpathian Programme.

Danube Strategy:

Question, ChallengeOpportunity

Andreas Beckmann, Director

WWF Danube-Carpathian Programme

Danube-Carpathian RegionDanube-Carpathian Region

Our Challenge

Natural Capital Our Global Impact

Climate & Energy

Deforestation Water

Fisheries

80% reduction in CO2 by 2050

$3-5 trillion in value lost ANNUALY

75% of fisheries over-fished &faced with commercial extinction

2/3 of world population facing water scarcity by 2025

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Where are the Impacts?Where are the Impacts?

‘It takes a new way of thinking to solve the problems that we created by the old way of thinking’

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Answering the 3-planet challenge

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Abatement cost€ per tCO2e

Global GHG abatement cost curve beyond business-as-usual – 2030

Note:The curve presents an estimate of the maximum potential of all technical GHG abatement measures below €60 per tCO2e if each lever was pursued aggressively. It is not a forecast of what role different abatement measures and technologies will play.

Source: Global GHG Abatement Cost Curve v2.0

Lighting – switch incandescent to LED (residential)

Cropland nutrient management

Tillage and residue mgmt

1st generation biofuels

Clinker substitution by fly ash

Electricity from landfill gas

Small hydro

Reduced slash and burn agriculture conversion

Reduced pastureland conversion

Grassland management

Organic soil restoration

Pastureland afforestationNuclear

Degraded forest reforestationReduced intensive

agriculture conversion

Coal CCS new buildIron and steel CCS new build

Motor systems efficiency

Rice management

Cars full hybrid

Gas plant CCS retrofit

Solar PV

Waste recycling

High penetration wind

Low penetration wind

Residential electronics

Residential appliances

Retrofit residential HVAC

Insulation retrofit (commercial)

Power plant biomass co-firing

Geothermal

Coal CCS retrofit

Degraded land restoration

Abatement potentialGtCO2e per year

Solar CSP

Building efficiency new build

2nd generation biofuels

Efficiency improvements other industry

Insulation retrofit (residential)

Cars plug-in hybrid

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Challenges

In future, we will need to…Pay more for energyPay more to pollutePay more for environmental goodsPay more for environmental services

Opportunities

Source: Michael Braungart, Cradle to Cradle Design

“Europe’s Amazon” – The Drava-Mura-Danube Biosphere Reserve

800,000 ha – Europe’s largest riverine protected area

Danube Delta: wetland restoration

Inland navigation

Southern CarpathiansWild Landscape at the Heart of Europe

Europe’s Yellowstone

1 million ha of existing protected areas, with coordinated management and

marketed as Europe’s premiere nature tourism destination.

What we need to achieve

One Planet Living

Thank you.Thank you.

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