ecoTVC

With Dermot O’Gorman, CEO, WWF-Australia and local respondent: Adelaide’s Lord Mayor, Stephen Yarwood, Wednesday 24 August 2011
5.30pm for a 6.00pm start
Adelaide Town Hall, 128 King William Street, Adelaide Register HERE for this FREE event
For 50 years, bodies like WWF have been at the forefront of global efforts to conserve vulnerable species. Yet the planet’s plants and animals still face an extinction crisis. Research shows that unique species are dwindling, and since 1970, 30 per cent have vanished entirely. At the same time, demands on the planet’s natural resources have doubled. Each year humans use more than the planet can replenish. By 2050 the human population is expected to reach 9 billion.
Dermot O’Gorman, CEO of WWF-Australia believes that any solution to the continued extinction crisis must go hand in hand with the challenge of supporting a world of 9 billion people.
He will argue that by conserving the most critical places for the planet’s biodiversity, and working with the most enterprising big companies to create sustainable commodities and products, a workable environmental future will be attainable both for humans and other species in the web of life.
Adelaide’s Lord Mayor, Stephen Yarwood, will respond, reflecting local South Australian challenges.