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“Quale Economia,
per quale Benessere”
22/24 maggio 2014
J. Daniel Dahm
Strategic transformations
towards sustainability.
Pre-conditions and constraints on
the way towards a green industrial
revolution.

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Foul credits
Economical (monetary) productivity was purchased on ecological credits, and
ecological productivity was sold without consideration of its reproductive
premises.

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“Quale Economia,
per quale Benessere”
22/24 maggio 2014
Correlation between the stability of ecosystems, CO2-concentration and climatic changes,
scenariocalculation, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, 2008

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Dr. J. Daniel Dahm | jdd@sustainability-strategies.org
rethinking
Economy

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New challenges calling for Sustainable Business Cultures
The variety of life, the productivity and regeneration cycles of energy and material on
planet earth are indispensable for the evolution of life and cultures, as well as for
economical development.
Economy and ecology are inseparable; they are intrinsically tied together.
!

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1. Adjustment of the regulatory framework and the policies of order for
the economic practice
2. Establishing new competitive business models
3. Changing social norms towards sustainability
4. „Empowerment“ of the agents of change (especially civil society ...)
Need for change

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Adjustment of the regulatory framework and the
policies of order for the economic practice

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1. Abolishment of the distortion of competition by (hidden) externalisation of ecological and social costs by
production processes, value chains and logistics.
2. Legal prevention of the commons equivalent to the private property.
3. Enhancement of the requirement to publish results of companies and emitters of financial products towards
the comprehensive documentation of their ethical and ecological impacts and potential sustainability risks.
4. Implementation and standardisation of ecological, social, cultural and measurements and ratingmethods for
companies and investments.
5. Establishing of incentive structures and removal of barriers for sustainable (direct-)investments especially for
institutional investors;
6. Obligation for all emitters of financial products to document comprehensively all risks, including the risks for
commons goods;
4. Limitation of speculations on the coverage of business activities related to the real economy;
5. Readjustment of the practice of credit accomodation of banks and all non-state financial institutions
(monetary financial institutions (MFI), Hedgefonds and similar future constructs)
6. Implementation of a financial transaction tax.
Adjustment of the regulatory framework and the policies of
order for the economic practice

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Establishing new competitive business models

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