Strategic Sustainable Development (SSD)

1.Confirming report: “green economy as a means for social prosperity within

sustainability constraints”. 2. Presenting a unifying structure SSD to help operationalizing and informing of green economy research. 3. Adding some elements of value from this structure e.g. pull, trans-materializations, rhetoric to avoid unnecessary resistance.

Prof Karl-Henrik Robèrt, Green Economy Workshop, KVA in February 2014

Gaps in know-how for operationalizing linking of…

1. … ethics with income? (Business case)

2. … small with big? (System boundaries)

3. … short-term with long-term? (Strategic dimension)…

…seem to ask for political/economic measures to manage

”Prisoner’s dilemmas” (push)

So how?

Gaps in know-how for operationalizing linking of…

1. … ethics with income? (Business case)…

…seem to ask for political/economic measures to manage

”Prisoner’s dilemmas” (push)

Business case is there! 1. Opportunity costs

2. Resource costs

3. Innovations

4. New markets

5. Stake-holder cooperation

6. …

7. Image costs

Gaps in know-how for operationalizing linking of…

1. … ethics with income? (Business case)

2. … small with big? (System boundaries)

…seem to ask for political/economic measures to manage

”Prisoner’s dilemmas” (push)

Boundary conditions for Sustainable Development • Concentrations of substances from geosphere • Concentrations of substances from production • Physical encroaching • Erosion of trust

Innovation processes; Transformation; Effectivity; Governance Growth, Prosperity

Rockström 9 okt 2013

Gaps in know-how for operationalizing linking of…

1. … ethics with income? (Business case)

2. … small with big? (System boundaries)

3. … short-term with long-term? (Strategic dimension)…

…seem to ask for political/economic measures to manage

”Prisoner’s dilemmas” (push)

Time

Vision

Purpose/mission

Core values

KPA/ Strategic goals/KPI

Strengths

Weaknesses

Opportunities

Threats

Sustainability ”SWOT”

Basic sustainability boundary conditions

Further to ”growth of value” through… multistake holder dialogues, New business models, Supply chain management, Product Service Systems (PSS), Legislation, Tax, …

…to increase pace!!!

Time

Strategic Tools (means) Management systems, LCA, Footprinting, Product Development, Indicators, Modeling, Simulation, Supply chain management, Cross-sector cooperation, PSS, C2C, CSR, Policies, Legislation, Jobs, ”Silos”, Metrics, Green economy, Circular economy, Growth, Energy, ”True costs”,…

Ecological boundary conditions

Science on Governance & Tools in Context

Social boundary conditions

In conclusion

General gap in knowledge regarding:

Boundary conditions of sustainability…

…business case of compliance with such…

…systematic planning to capitalize Business case and

…making most of existing economic and other tools

Obstacles to spread this knowledge are…

Norms of previous industrial paradigm…

…heated debate confusing values, facts, principles…

The proposed knowledge can complete the traditional

discourse of ”push” with (i) ”pull”, (ii) measures to support

the proactive, (iii) avoiding counterproductive measures

and rethoric

Suggestion: testing such a structure for green

economy research!