Private equity firms ramp up sustainability focus
In line with business leaders across the industrial gamut, private equity firms are increasingly on-board with sustainability projects.
Source: www.consultancy.uk
In line with business leaders across the industrial gamut, private equity firms are increasingly on-board with sustainability projects.
Source: www.consultancy.uk
The UN’s goal to deliver sustainable production and consumption requires a drastic transformation of current business models – can the green economy deliver? Humans used more resources than nature was able to replenish inside one year for the first time back in 1970. Since then, the date that Earth’s biocapacity is breached – dubbed “Earth overshoot day” has crept forward each year. This year, it fell on 29 July. Loss of natural resources on a mass scale have grabbed headlines, making the sight of Australian towns with no more than six months’ of water left or raging forest fires across swathes Latin America a regular feature in the world’s news bulletins. Meanwhile, plastic waste has reached every corner of the planet, seeping into insects and animals, snowfall, and even drinking water supplies, tarnishing everywhere from the peaks of the Himalayas to the depths of the Mariana Trench.
Many people struggle with trying to be good environmental stewards – while not being hoarders at the same time. I’ve been guilty of holding on to things that I should throw away, just because I haven’t yet found a way to recycle them.
Freight trucks account for 23 percent of U.S. transportation. Transportation is the No. 1 source of greenhouse gas emissions in America. The country’s freight industry is in no position to ignore its impact on the environment and the greater good.
If we want to put an end to the huge unequality of living chances in the world, in accordance with principles of justice which support the human rights ideology as envisaged by the Millennium Objectives of the UN, is there then enough ecological basis for such a rearrangement of living chances?
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