2.9 SDGS for business............................................................................................................................... 24
2.10 STUDY: the SDG’s and the future of CS ............................................................................................. 25
2.10.1 history of corpotate sustainability in a nutshell ....................................................................... 25
2.10.2 impact & future of corporate sunstainability ........................................................................... 29
2.10.3 enter the sustainable development goals ................................................................................ 30
1.1 TERMINOLOGIE
Sustainable development = a particular concept with defining principles/characteristics.
à Sustainable = adjective that refers to ‘sustainable development’
à Sustainability = sustainable development
à Sustainable & sustainability = ‘lasting’, ‘continuous’, ‘enduring’ (//Sustainable
development)
à Receiver and sender responsibility
Ecological footprint = area of productive land and water required to produce the goods
consumed by a given population and to absorb its wastes.
Planetary boundaries =
§ 9 planetary systems
§ Planetary boundaries: critical bio-physical planetary limits
§ Safe operating space for humanity with respect to the planet
1.2 SUSTAINABILITY
Stands for:
1. Solution for inter-related environmental-societal issues
2. Positive societal objectives and changes
3. Critique on ‘conventional’ views and practices
1.2.1 GENESIS/ONTSTAAN
§ > 1.000 years old
§ Balance between demand on nature and limits
§ Book Sylvicultura Oeconomica (1713)
§ Hans Carl von Carlowitz à Term ‘nachhaltende nutzung’ = ‘sustainable use’
§ Sustainable forestry (bosbouw)
§ Wood was a major resource (heating, houses, ships, industrial production)
§ There was a danger of shortage in Europe
§ Balancing renewal – clear cutting
United Nations Conference on Human Environment (UNCHE) - Stockholm, 1972
o Environment on the international agenda for the first time!
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, o Stockholm declaration with 26 principles + action plan that enriched &
complemented the declaration with 109 recommendations
o Establishment UNEP (United Nations Environment Program, addresses
environmental issues at the global and regional level for the United Nations.)
World Conservation Strategy (WCS) – 1980
o Recognized the challenge to integrate development and environment
o Failed in the integration of both objectives
o Environment central (achieving SD trough conservation living resources)
Our Common Future (!!) – 1987
o Gro Harlem Brundtland / World Commission on Environment & Development
(WCED)
o Commissioned to formulate a “global agenda for change”
o Succeeded to integrate development and environment
o Vital milestone – popularization of the concept
1. Launched a famous definition of SD
2. Established SD as a substantial component of international development thinking
& practice
3. Initiated an explosion of work on the theme
4. Represents the worldwide breakthrough & popularization of sustainability
o In preparation of UNCED
o Builds a worldwide partnership of SD
o Reconciles the environmental interests of the North with the developments need of
the South
United Nations Conference on Environment & Development (UNCED) – Rio, 1992
o AGENDA 21 – Global action plan for sustainable development
o Rio Declaration: 27 sustainability principles
o Promotes economic development, reduces poverty, and preserves and protects the
earth's ecological system
o Successful!
o UNCED made SD popular & important
United Nations Millennium Summit – New York, 2000
o Millennium Declaration
= Reaffirms the support of the international community for AGENDA 21 & the RIO
Declaration
o Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015
= Series of time-bound targets which should be achieved by 2015 to reduce
extreme poverty and meet the basic needs of the world’s poorest
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