One Planet Living and Masdar City

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If everyone lived like an average North American we would need five planets.

If everyone lived like an average European we would need three planets.

If everyone lived like an average Emirati we would need eleven planets.

Our global footprint grew by 150% between 1961 and 2003. It is now 25% above the planet's biological capacity to support life on earth.

The WWF has developed an initiative called One Planet Living. It has ten guiding principles.

Masdar is going to be developed using these principles.

1- Zero Carbon: CO2 emitted to the air because of the activities that human make it.
2- Zero Waste: waste product that make a bid pollution in the earth.
3- Sustainable Transport: transportation that people used all the time and cause a lot of pollution.
4- Local and Sustainable Materials: many factories that destroy the environment and reduce he benefit of local community.
5- Local and sustainable food: food that make it by factories agricultural is very harm and it is effec in the transportation.
6- Sustainable water: because of pollution some government can't offer a freshwater for people.
7- Natural Habitats and wildlife: because of using nature area by changing and replace it so we can't have bio diversity.
8- Culture and heritage: globalisation is lead to loss our local cultural heritage and also forget local identity and knowledge.
9- Equity and fair trade: there is no equity between the Some of the industrialised world and developing world in the trade.
10- Health and happiness: health and happiness are increasing and the people asking about true basis of well-being and contentment.

Which principles do you think will be difficult for Masdar City to maintain?

1- Local and Sustainable Materials.
2- Local and Sustainable Food.

What are the three goals of the One Planet Living programme?

1- Build a world-wide network of One Planet Living Communities and other exemplary projects to demonstrate One Planet Living in action.
2- Establish One Planet Living Centres in each One Planet Living community as a focus for education.
3- Promote the imperative for One Planet Living and its guiding principles to catalyse change with governments, business and individuals.

Masdar is one of the Emerging One Planet communities, where are the others?

Panyu Jinshan in China, Sibaya in South Africa, OPL London in UK, Montreal.

Where are the Officially Endorsed One Planet Communities?

One Gallions in UK, Sonoma Mountain Village in Canada & USA, Mata de Sesimbra.