Developing Sustainable Economy

Description
sustainable economy is a part of the environmental management course. It initially talks about the paradigm shift and what basically is sustainability. It then describes how to be sustainable and the strategy for sustainability. It then lists down the three stages of environmental strategy

Beyond Greening – To develop a sustainable global economy

The Paradigm Shift
State of Denial State of Compliance

Going Green

The Challenge
Beyond Greening – To develop a sustainable global economy

What is Sustainability?
• Merely being green is not being sustainable
Environmental Issues of climate change, preserving natural resources, and preventing waste

Social
to address conditions that affect us all, including poverty, public health, labour and human rights etc.

Sustainability
Economic to help people and businesses meet their economic needs

Cultural
to protect and value the diversity through which communities manifest their identity and cultivate traditions across generations

How to be Sustainable?
Nature’s Economy

Survival Economy Market Economy

Strategy for a Sustainable World
• Vision for Sustainability
– A shaping logic that goes beyond internal, operations focus on greening to a more external, strategic focus on sustainable development.

Three stages of Environmental Strategy
• Stage One – Pollution Prevention
– Focus on minimizing waste before it is created. – Emerging Global standards

• Stage Two – Product Stewardship
– Minimizing environmental impacts from life cycle of a product. – Concept of Design For Environment (DFE)

• Stage Three – Clean Technology
– Existing Technology base is not environmentally sustainable – Invest and innovate to develop cleaner technology

Are you on track of Sustainability?
The Sustainability Portfolio
Internal Clean Technology
Tomorrow

External
Sustainability Vision

Is there potential to realize major improvements through new technology?
Pollution Prevention

Does our vision guide the development of new technologies, markets, products, and processes? Product Stewardship
Can we add value or lower costs while simultaneously reducing the impact of our product?

Today

Can we lower costs and risks by eliminating waste at the source or by using it as useful input?

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