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Summary of the sustainable imapct readings, videos and some of the lectures.
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INHOUDWeek 1 – Planet, people & profit ........................................................................................................................ 2
Reading ........................................................................................................................................................... 2
Watching ......................................................................................................................................................... 5
Workshop 1 – Sustainable Impact................................................................................................................... 6
Week 2 – Evolution, Methods and systems ........................................................................................................ 8
Reading ........................................................................................................................................................... 8
Ted talks ........................................................................................................................................................ 10
Workshop 1 – 17/11/2021 ............................................................................................................................ 10
Workshop 2 – 19/11/2021 ............................................................................................................................ 11
week 3 – Life cycle assessment ......................................................................................................................... 13
Reading ......................................................................................................................................................... 13
Watch ............................................................................................................................................................ 16
Workshop 1 – 24/11/2021 ............................................................................................................................ 17
Workshop 2 – 26/11/2021 ............................................................................................................................ 17
Week 4 – Energy Effectiveness ......................................................................................................................... 19
Watching ....................................................................................................................................................... 19
Reading ......................................................................................................................................................... 19
Workshop – 1/12/2021 ................................................................................................................................. 21
Week 5 – Materials and Sustainability .............................................................................................................. 22
Reading ......................................................................................................................................................... 22
Watching ....................................................................................................................................................... 24
Week 6: Design for Recovery ............................................................................................................................ 26
Reading ......................................................................................................................................................... 26
Watching ....................................................................................................................................................... 28
Workshop 1 – 15/12/21 ................................................................................................................................ 28
Workshop 2 – 17/12/2021 ............................................................................................................................ 30
Week 7: Sustainable business models .............................................................................................................. 31
Reading ......................................................................................................................................................... 31
Watching ....................................................................................................................................................... 35
Week 8: Behaviour change ............................................................................................................................... 36
Reading ......................................................................................................................................................... 36
Watching ....................................................................................................................................................... 40
,WEEK 1 – PLANET, PEOPLE & PROFIT
READING
UN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOAL COMPAS
The Sustainable Development goals define global priorities and aspirations for 2030 and seek to mobilize global
efforts around a common set of goals and targets. They call on businesses to apply creativity and innovation to
solve sustainable development challenges. They can help connect business strategies with global priorities.
Companies can capitalize on a several benefits:
- Identifying future business opportunities
- Enhancing the value of corporate sustainability
- Strengthening stakeholder relations and keeping the pace
with policy developments
- Stabilizing societies and markets
- Using a common language and shared purpose
The SDG compass guides companies on how they can align their
strategies as well as measure and manage their contribution to the
SDG’s. The guide has five steps.
1. Understanding the SDG’s
The SDG’s succeed the MDG’s and focus on goals that reduce
poverty, improve quality of life and solve the climate crisis.
Companies can use them as an overarching framework to shape their
strategies, goals and activities. There are quite some benefits:
- Identifying future business opportunities
- Enhancing the value of corporate sustainability
- Strengthening stakeholder relations and keeping pace with policy developments
- Stabilizing societies and markets
- Using a common language purpose
The SDG’s depend on the understanding that companies recognize their responsibility and uphold
internationally recognized minimum standards and to respect universal rights.
2. Defining priorities
Defining the company’s priorities will help them keep focus on their efforts: not all 17 SDG’s will be
equally important to a company. Did a version
of it in DP3
To find the priorities and the goals where the company can make the most impact it is recommended
to make a value chain and makes a high-level scan of where impacts can be expected to be the greatest. After
this map identify one or more indicators that express the relationship between the company’s activities and
their impact on sustainable development, so that performance can be tracked over time. Then, identify and
collect data for each of the selected business indicators. Finally, define the priorities across the SDG’s.
3. Setting goals
Setting goals helps foster shared priorities and drive performance across the organization. It is important to
select Key Performance Indicators (KPI), it is recommended that these directly address the impact or outcome
,of its activities. After that, it is important to define the baseline for each goal (a particular point in time or a
particular period in time) and to determine the type of goal to set (absolute goal (only takes KPI into account)
or relative/intensity goal (compares KPI to a unit or output)). Finally, determine the level of ambition and
announce a commitment to the SDGs.
4. Integrating
Integrating sustainability has the potential to transform all aspects of the company’s business. It is important to
anchor the sustainability goals in the business through active leadership, creating a shared understanding of
the desired progress and integrating it in performance reviews. Also, embed sustainability across all functions
and engage in partnerships such as value chain partnerships, sector initiatives and multi-stakeholder
partnerships.
5. Reporting and communicating
Reporting and communicating on your progress is imperative in order for the stakeholders to understand what
is happening and whether their demands are being met. This can be done through a system that integrates the
SDG’s into everyday decision making. It is important to make sure it clear and concise and communicates the
SDG performance.
IPCC (2021). SIXTH ASSESSMENT REPORT “HEADLINE STATEMENTS FROM THE SUMMARY FOR
POLICYMAKERS”
A. The Current State of the Climate
Human influence has warmed the atmosphere, ocean and land, changes have occurred.
Climate sensitivity describes how
The scale of recent changes is unprecedented over many centuries. Human-induced much the average global surface
climate change is already affecting many weather and climate extremes in every region temperature will increase if there
is a doubling of greenhouse gasses
across the globe. The best estimate of equilibrium climate sensitivity of 3 degrees Celsius.
B. Possible Climate Futures
Global surface temperature will continue to increase of about 1.5 to 2 degrees of Celsius unless changes are
made. Many changes in the climate system will be in direct relation to this warming. It will further intensify the
global water cycle and ocean and land carbon sinks are projected to be less effective at slowing the
accumulation of CO2. Many of the changes will be irreversible for centuries to millennia.
C. Climate information for Risk Assessment and Regional Adaptation
Natural drivers and internal variability will modulate human-caused changes, especially at regional scales and in
the near term, with little effect on centennial global warming. With further global warming, every region is
projected in increasingly experience changes in climatic impact-drivers.
D. Limiting Future Climate Change
Limiting human-induced global warming to a specific level requires limiting cumulative CO2 emissions.
ASHBY (2015). MATERIALS AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT. BUTTERWORTH-HEINEMANN.
CHAPTER 2: “WHAT IS SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT”
, Sustainable development – any development that moves us from a less sustainable to a more sustainable state
– has multiple dimensions. One is that of the three P’s: prosperity, people and planet. They can be reimagined
as “capitals”: manufactured and financial capital, human and social capital, and natural capital. This is one of
the building blocks, combine it with the objective that motives the development, the stakeholders and the facts
and you have a tower.
Questions to do with sustainability do not have a simple yes/no answer. There is no “right” answer, there is
however a thoughtful, well-researched response that, for example, takes the three P’s in consideration. Also,
“sustainability” is an absolute term, whereas “sustainable development” is a relative term: it is development
that moves us from the present state towards a more sustainable state. Development refers to a change (in
technology).
Another view of sustainability is one expressed in language of accountancy: the triple bottom line (TBL). This
considers that a company should not just measure their success through the financial bottom line but also by
its environmental, social and ethical performance. This however, is a company-centric view.
Economics look at through the three capitals:
manufactured capital (industrial capacity) , human
capital (health) and the natural capital (clean
atmosphere). All of these can be measured in a common
measure (euros). The net comprehensive capital is all
three combined, this is a measure of global or national
wealth. “Strong” sustainability delivers positive growth in
all three capitals, whereas “weak” sustainability that just
delivers a comprehensive capital.
Recognition of the importance of natural and social
capital has stimulated activities to diminish the undesired
impacts of economic growth on both.
Each of the articulations has a motivating target that we
called its prime objective, a size scale, a time scale and a cost scale that are envisaged for its implementation.
Each articulation also has a set of stakeholders.
The central issues can be grouped under six broad headings: materials, energy, environment, regulation,
society and economics.
STEFFEN ET AL. (2015). “PLANETARY BOUNDARIES: GUIDING HUMAN DEVELOPMENT ON A
CHANGING PLANET.” SCIENCE, VOL. 347(6223).
There is need of a new paradigm that combines the development of human societies and the maintenance of
the earth system (ES). This can be done on basis of the planetary boundary framework (PB) which will provide a
science based analysis of the risk that human disturbances will destabilize the ES at the planetary scale.
As far as is known the only state of the ES that can support contemporary human societies is the Holocene
epoch. Unfortunately, due to human activities the resilience of the ES (Holocene epoch) is threatened. The PB
framework is based on critical processes that regulate ES functioning. It identifies the levels that humans can
disturb the earth (anthropogenic perturbations) below which the risk of destabilization of the ES is likely to
remain low: a safe operating space for global development. The risk of destabilization is assessed by
comparison with the proposed PB:
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