business & sustainable development: risks, opportunities, and solutions

Business and Sustainable Development:

Risks, Opportunities and Solutions

Management & Education Conclave 2012

Taaleem College of International Studies

21-22 December

Professor Jeremy B Williams

Director

Asia Pacific Management Centre

Griffith Business School

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Source: nationaljournal.tumblr.com

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© Jeremy B. Williams 2007

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The Stern Review, October 2006

On climate change:“The greatest market failure the world has ever seen”

Sir Nicholas Stern

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IPCC Fourth Assessment Report

February, 2007: Evidence of Human-caused Global Warming is ... “Unequivocal”

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November 2012:

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2005: CO2 = 379ppm

350.org

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Source: http://www.21school.ox.ac.uk/news/archive/200702_inaugural_lecture.cfm

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Source: http://www.21school.ox.ac.uk/news/archive/200702_inaugural_lecture.cfm

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Upsala Glacier, Argentina

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2004

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Blomstrandbreen Glacier, Norway

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Blomstrandbreen Glacier, Norway

2002

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The Imja Glacier, Himalayas

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The Imja Glacier, Himalayas

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Anhui Province, China, August 2006 Southeastern China, February 2011

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Floods in Southern China, June 2011, 550,000 left homeless

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Forced migrations

UN study estimates that there were 50 million environmental refugees around the world

in 2010

Same study estimates that as many as 100 million people live in areas that are below sea level or liable to storm surge

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1 metre sea level rise will inundate more than 15 percent of Bangladesh, displacing more than 13 million people

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Annual carbon dioxide emissions Bangladesh: 172kg per capita United States: 21 tonnes per capita

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The ecological footprint concept

How many planets would we need if everyone lived like you?

http://www.myfootprint.org

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Worldwide, there exists about 1.9 biologically productive global hectares per person

Image source: www.adbusters.org

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At what stage do you think humankind will outstrip its supply of biologically productive hectares?

A. 2010B. 2020C. 2050D. 2100E. No answer

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Image source: http://www.footprintnetwork.org/

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Image source: http://www.footprintnetwork.org/

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Image source: http://www.footprintnetwork.org/

China

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Going about our business naturally

Radical resource productivity

Biomimicry

Service and flow economy

Investing in natural capital

www.naturalcapitalism.org

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Radical resource productivity

Using resources more efficiently in ways that can already be achieved; e.g. process redesign (disembodied technical change) or energy efficient buildings, passive solar heating.

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Research biomimicry

Spider silk Abalone shell

Stenocara beetle

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Reorient to a service and flow economy Focuses more on selling and purchasing services

rather than products Makes manufacturers more ecologically

responsible

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Invest in natural capital

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