Sustainability a Global Perspective (4)

Sustainability: Investing in the Future of Your Business

Session 0: Sustainability, a Global Perspective

Presenter: Dr. Valerie A. S. Shoup, PE, FACHEPresident: Heritage Institute of Sustainability

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Investing in the Future of your Business

Presented: multiple papers both nationally and internationally on topics in sustainability and healthcare

Recognized: leader in sustainable business operations

Passion: creating a sustainable environment for current and future generations

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Please Introduce Yourself

1) Your name2) Why you are here3) What you hope to learn from

this course

IntroductionsSustainability Defined

Sustainability, noun, verb, way of life[suh‐stey‐nuh‐bil‐i‐tee]

Meeting the needs of the present generation without compromising the needs of future generations

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Physiological‐environmental: air, water, food, shelter

Personal security‐economic: financial security, health and well‐being, safety net against accidents/illness and their adverse impacts.

Social: Intimacy, family, esteem, and self‐ actualization

Self Actualization

Esteem

Love, Belonging

Safety

Physiological

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Environmental‐Physiological

Natural Resource UseEnvironmental Management

Pollution Prevention (air, water, land, waste)

Economic– Personal SecurityProfit

Cost SavingsEconomic Growth

Research & Development

Social‐ IntimacyStandard of Living

EducationCommunity

Equal Opportunity

Environmental‐EconomicEnergy Efficiency

Subsidies / Incentives for use of Natural Resources

Social‐EnvironmentalEnvironmental Justice

Natural Resources StewardshipLocally & Globally

Economic‐SocialBusiness Ethics

Fair TradeWorker’s Rights


A business plan is a framework from which the business operates.

Consists of people to make the plan (social/employee engagement).

Consists of profit to remain viable (personal security).

Consists of responsible use of resources to remain viable (protecting the planet, physiological).

1753 Joseph Black Discovers CO2 1827 Jean‐Baptiste Fourier atmospheric effect of earth warmth i.e. greenhouse analogy

1896 Svante August Arrhenius CO2 emissions from coal leads to global warming

www.direct.gov.uk

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1980‐2000: Climate change: Reduction in Greenhouse Gases

IPCC (1988) panel on climate change.

UNFCCC (1992) United Nations Framework Convention on

Climate Change.

IPCC (1995) Greenhouse gases continue to rise

KYOTO Protocol to UNFCC (1997)

Rock Ethics Institute, (2007)


2001‐2006: Impacts of climate change recognized as an

immediate problem in this decade.

Adaptation: Impacts vary across globe

Poorest countries require assistance

Marrakech Accords (2001) Funds to help poor countries.

LDC Fund & SCC Fund


2007 forward: Environmental problem as a question of global justice.

Human induced climate change recognized. Greenland Ice melt, European heat waves, droughts in Africa,

floods in Asia, hurricanes in the Caribbean. Rock Ethics Institute, (2007). 2010 The United Nations Development Goals. Poverty and hunger, primary education, gender equality and

empower women, child mortality, maternal health, HIV aids malaria and other diseases, environmental sustainability, andglobal partnerships for development.


Tragedy and Opportunity of the Commons

Spaceship Earth

Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change (IPCC)

Social Accountability International


Global potential for negative CO2 emissions through

biomass: Carbon dioxide capture and storage.

Protection of Marine Reserves to conserve and restore

populations.

Progress in eradicating disease and hunger worldwide.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROEFaHKVmSs

Marine reserves: Preserving our fish populations worldwide

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcRSCynTsWc

http://lugar.senate.gov/food/legislation/


https://www.tceq.texas.gov/assets/public/waterquality/swqm/assess/12twqi/2012_imp_index.pdf

Above link to all the not suitable for drinking water streams in Texas.




Dallas Skyline

Strengths: United Nations Goals and Worldwide governmental awareness. Multiple programs including the World Meteorological Organization. Individual countries are making changes in legislation and offering aide to other countries. Increasing global awareness of sustainability Issues.

Opportunities: CO2 capture technology development. Wind turbine technologies and other sustainable technologies. Marine Wildlife reserve expansion. Clean water legislation and control worldwide. Focus on global hunger, education, agricultural development worldwide. Education worldwide on the issues.

Weakness: Lack of educational programs that bring the issues to the forefront for the general population. The downturn in the global economy diverting governmental energies. The lack of sense of global urgency.

Threats: International corruption, economic instability. Geocentric behaviors of governments. Wars and Natural Disasters.


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•RequireSustainabilityEducationinallcollegesanduniversitiesworldwideaspartofthecorecurriculum.

.•RequireSustainabilityeducationinprimaryandsecondaryschools.

•ProvideGovernmentfundingandresearch.

•Focusonawarenessthroughphilanthropiceffortsandmassmedia.

• ContinuedsupportofUnitedNationsforworldwideprotectionofnaturalresourcesandprotectionofhumanrights.

•Rampupproductionofdrugsandvaccinesandprovidetounderdevelopedcountriesworldwide.

•Programmingtoeducatethegeneralpubliconworldwidesustainabilityissues.

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What will you do??Are we meeting the needs of our generation and the needs of future generations??

Learn how to create a sustainable business plan. Contact [email protected]


ARC center for coral reef studies, (2012). Marine reserves can help restock the world’s exploited fish populations. Sailworld.com. Retrieved from http://www.sail-world.com/UK/Marine-reserves-can-help-restock-exploited-fish-populations/97981

Atinmo, T., Mirmiran, P., Oyewole, O. E., Belahsen, R., & Serra-Majem, L. (2009). Breaking the poverty/malnutrition cycle in Africa and the Middle East. Nutrition Reviews, 67S40-S46. doi:10.1111/j.1753-4887.2009.00158.x

Bertini, C., & Glickman, D. (2009). Farm Futures. Foreign Affairs, 88(3), 93-105 Hatton, A., Herzog, H., Meldon, J., (2009). Advanced post-combustion CO2 capture. Report prepared for the Clean Air Task

Force under a grant from the Doris Duke Foundation. Retrieved from http://web.mit.edu/mitei/docs/reports/herzog-meldon-hatton.pdf

Hirokawa, T., Watanabe, C., (2011). Japan aims to start bilateral carbon offset program 2013. Bloomberg. Retrieved from http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-11-29/japan-aims-to-start-bilateral-carbon-offset-program-in-2013.html

Laviernen, (2012). Can no-take fishery reserves help protect our oceans? Our World 2.0. United Nations University. Retrieved from http://ourworld.unu.edu/en/can-no-take-fisheries-help-protect-our-oceans/

Mooney, P. H., & Hunt, S. A. (2009). Food Security: The Elaboration of Contested Claims to a Consensus Frame. Rural Sociology, 74(4), 469-497.

Rock Ethics Institute, (2007). Three eras of climate change and the emergence of concern for global justice. Penn State University. Retrieved from http://rockblogs.psu.edu/climate/2007/11/three-eras-of-climate-change-and-the-emergence-of-concern-for-global-justice.html

Science Daily, (2011). Large global potential for negative CO2 emissions through biomass linked with carbon dioxide capture and storage. Science Daily. Retrieved from http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/08/110803111005.htm

Science Daily, (2012). New materials remove carbon dioxide from smokestacks, tailpipes and even the air. Science Daily. Retrieved from http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/01/120104115100.htm

Shao, K. (2009). Marine biodiversity and fishery sustainability. Asia Pacific Journal Of Clinical Nutrition, 18(4), 527-531. United Kingdom, (2012). A history of climate change . Retrieved from

http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Environmentandgreenerliving/Thewiderenvironment/Climatechange/DG_072901 United Nations Environmental Program, (2012). The United Nations Goals. Retrieved from http://www.unep.org/newscentre/Default.aspx?DocumentID=2688&ArticleID=9158&l=en World Meteorological Organization, (2012). WMO’s Outcomes, Strategies, and Associated Goals. Retrieved from

http://www.wmo.int/pages/about/vision_en.html


IntroductionsPicture Sources

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3 Spheres of Sustainability Adapted from the 2002 University of Michigan Sustainability Assessment

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Thank you NTCOG and North Texas Food Bank for your Pictures

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