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== Numbers that matter ==
== Numbers that matter ==


Numbers that matter in Consulting - global statistics for consulting industry:
in reducing/offsetting CO2 emissions <br>
One of the millennium development goals is to ensure environmental sustainability <br>
1) Addressing deforestation <br>
2) Reducing per capita CO2 emissions <br>


http://www.plunkettresearch.com/Industries/Consulting/ConsultingStatistics/tabid/177/Default.aspx  (LS)
. It is estimated that to restore biodiversity at sustainable levels, we need to restore forest land lost in 10 years i.e. 130 million hectares.<br>
 
Which is equivalent to 14 billion trees a year for 10 years.<br>
Global Consulting Industry Revenue (including HR, IT, strategy, operations management & business advisory services) equals 345 Billion US Dollars. (LS)<br>
One hectare of tree on average absorbs 6 tonnes of CO2 <br>
Management Consulting is by far the largest segment with $142.7B in 2008 (CR)<br>
13 million hectares = 78 million tonnes of CO2 = 0.08 ppm reduction in CO2 of atmosphere which is 0.02% of
 
()<br>
-What is the fastest growing segment of consulting? IT? We should be able to find this out with numbers (CR)<br>
350 is desirable <br>
 
14 billion trees require 14 billion $ (UN - 1 $ a tree) <br>
 
Conor has idea on decreasing of US defense expense and put this money to feed the whole planet (IT)<br>
.9 billion <br>
 
Population of BOP (below poverty line) = (32.6% of total population) = 2.3 billion <br>
The official budget in  2010 for US defense spending is $533.8 Billion. If you include supplementary spending for the war in Iraq/Afghanistan that number jumps to somewhere between $880 billion and $1.03 trillion. (these are wiki numbers so I will have to confirm).  
Not BOP = 4.6 billion <br>
 
3 trees per person/year <br>
Basically, the US spends about 5% of GDP on defense where most other countries spend around 2-2.5%. So our thesis can be, "What America could do (or buy) if it decreased its defense spending to normal levels." That would mean cutting the US defense budget by half. So depending on what numbers we use it will be between $250 billion to $500 billion per year. My idea was to come up with a bunch of neat things the world could do with $250-$500 billion. Such as: lift x% of people out of poverty, give everyone in africa a laptop, etc. We could all come up with like 2 profound examples and tell the class. Let me know what you think. (CR).
2) Reducing per capita CO2 emissions - Car pooling <br>
A commuter travelling for 20 miles a day emits 107 tonnes of CO2 a year <br>
If 100 people pair up into daily car pools, they would save 1070 tonnes a year <br>
Current stats show that there is one car for every ten people, roughly 690 million cars. <br>
200 million people (Population of Brazil) pair up, they would save 2.2 billion tonnes a year ~~ 8% of yearly CO2 emission <br>


== Research Questions ==
== Research Questions ==

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