business & sustainable development: risks, opportunities, and solutions
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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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© 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
1928
2004
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Blomstrandbreen Glacier, Norway
1922
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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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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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