workshop at International Program Green Sustainable Economy at UCN Aalborg, 2013. Contribution from Hogeschool Utrecht, HU University of Applied Sciences Utrecht
Business Case for Sustainability Presentation Laura Dunkley
Building the Business Case for Sustainability - Challenges, Identify the Decision Makers, Hierarchy of Business Needs, Reasons Sustainability Initiatives are not Adopted, Success Stories, Resource Links
This Research Spotlight provides a summary of the academic literature on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) activities including:
• The relation between ESG activities and firm value
• The impact of environmental and social engagements on firm performance
• The market reaction to ESG events
• The relation between ESG and agency problems
• The performance of socially responsible investment (SRI) funds
This Research Spotlight expands upon issues introduced in the Quick Guide “Investors and Activism”.
Higher education institutions have a critical role to play in driving sustainable development forward. But creating a sustainable future is much more than just creating green campuses or implementing recycling efforts or global citizenship initiatives. It also means inclusive education and lifelong learning.
Business Case for Sustainability Presentation Laura Dunkley
Building the Business Case for Sustainability - Challenges, Identify the Decision Makers, Hierarchy of Business Needs, Reasons Sustainability Initiatives are not Adopted, Success Stories, Resource Links
This Research Spotlight provides a summary of the academic literature on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) activities including:
• The relation between ESG activities and firm value
• The impact of environmental and social engagements on firm performance
• The market reaction to ESG events
• The relation between ESG and agency problems
• The performance of socially responsible investment (SRI) funds
This Research Spotlight expands upon issues introduced in the Quick Guide “Investors and Activism”.
Higher education institutions have a critical role to play in driving sustainable development forward. But creating a sustainable future is much more than just creating green campuses or implementing recycling efforts or global citizenship initiatives. It also means inclusive education and lifelong learning.
Presentation defines Sustainability, Sustainability Management, and presents some basic tools the Sustainability Professional can use to design and implement a Sustainability strategy.
January 2024. Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) is a framework that helps investors evaluate how a company manages risk and opportunities around sustainability issues. ESG takes a comprehensive view that extends beyond the environmental aspect to include the social and corporate governance aspects.
ESG metrics are non-financial indicators that evaluate companies' ESG performance. They are quantitative, such as GHG emissions; and qualitative, such as Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI).
ESG reporting is the public disclosure of ESG data. Its purpose is to shed light on a company’s ESG activities and improve transparency with investors.
ESG reporting offers many advantages to a business, including improved reputation, being more attractive to investors, competitive advantage, improved performance, resilient and sustainable business, capacity building, and climate change mitigation.
However, ESG reporting faces challenges such as the lack of a universal standard, being complex requiring specialized expertise, risk of greenwashing, and constantly changing regulations.
An ESG framework is a structured approach to ESG reporting. Using an ESG framework produces measurable, actionable, and credible results.
ESG standards translate ESG framework principles into action by specifying factors such as metrics, methodologies, and reporting formats. The absence of a universal ESG reporting standard has resulted in reliance on various standards.
The most commonly used ESG reporting standards include Task Force on Climate related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) and United Nations Global Compact (UNGC).
ESG compliance refers to meeting or exceeding ESG guidelines established by the compliance frameworks and regulatory bodies.
An ESG rating, also called an ESG score, provides a benchmark for investors to evaluate a company’s ESG performance and compare it to other companies.
Policy wise, the Sustainable Stock Exchanges (SSE) initiative was launched in 2009 to improve corporate transparency and performance on ESG issues. The SSE is coordinated by United Nations Global Compact (UNGC), UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), and UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA).
In this slideshow, you will learn about the definition, advantages, challenges, implementation steps, UN policy, and global statistics of ESG reporting. For more slideshows on environmental sustainability, please visit s2adesign.com
Today Sustainability and Sustainability reporting is buzz in every organisation. This presentation is just an awareness on sustainability and sustainability reporting process.
Environmental Sustainability has become an important aspect of business today. But many businesses aren't sure what to make of it. This is an introductory lecture about sustainability and how it can be practically related to business.
NL:
ESG Routekaart.
De dwingende uitdaging waarvoor wij staan op het gebied van milieu is, om met zijn allen de beweging in gang te zetten om de gemiddelde opwarming van de aarde tot 1,5 graden te beperken. Sommige belanghebbenden, gouvernementele organisaties en banken, vragen regelmatig om verbetering en het aanscherpen van de Europese wetgeving met betrekking tot het klimaat. De EU zou tegen 2050 een totale reductie van de binnenlandse emissies van 80% moeten realiseren. Door een eenduidig stappenplan te borgen, is een concrete stap naar verduurzamen. Denk daarbij aan de interne- en externe belanghebbenden te betrekken voor de implementatie van initiatieven om CO2-emissies te verminderen, of een stap verder zou zijn, om de emissies te compenseren. De Routekaart beschrijft aan de hand van analyses, en sector specifieke KPI’s, modellen hoe dit beleid goed zou kunnen worden geborgd in een Environmental Socio-Economic Governance beleid. De Routekaart biedt op de lange termijn een kosten efficiënt pad naar een schonere, klimaatvriendelijke bedrijf.
Short biography of the presenter; Ginio Franker, September 1966, Suriname.
Position Learning and Development NLP-trainer & Transpersoonlijke coach + Climate Leader trained by Al Gore. "A Moral Call to Climate Change" + "Environmental Justice".
Website www.greandream.com.
EN:
ESG-ROADMAP
With the effects of climate change already upon us, the need to cut global greenhouse gas emissions is nothing less than urgent. It’s a daunting challenge, but the technologies and strategies to meet it exist today. A small set of ESG policies, designed and implemented well, can put us on the path to a low carbon future. ESG Key Performance Indicators are complex, so they must be sector specific, focused and cost-effective. One-size-fits-all approaches simply won’t get the job done. Sustainability managers need a clear, comprehensive resource that outlines the ESG policies that will have the biggest impact on our climate future, and describes how to implement these policies well within their own organisations.
We don’t need to wait for new technologies or strategies to create a low carbon future—and we can’t afford to. ESG-ROADMAP gives professionals the tools they need to select, design, and implement the policies that can put us on the path to a livable climate future.
The Environmental Social Governance challenges e.g: on regulatory and reputational risks, market scandals and new market opportunities makes ESG information a data source of growing importance. With ESG in company seminars, round table discussions, scholarships and online association programs, we leave no one behind. Sign up today. Zentrepreneur Environmental Social Governance Associates Training. (ZESGA).
contact@esgwatch.eu
+32485773608 BE
+31630092220 NL
“Digital CO₂ Footprint” or “Digital Carbon Footprint”, is the emissions, occurring from the production, use and data transfer of digital devices it causes more CO₂ emissions than one might expect.
Presentation defines Sustainability, Sustainability Management, and presents some basic tools the Sustainability Professional can use to design and implement a Sustainability strategy.
January 2024. Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) is a framework that helps investors evaluate how a company manages risk and opportunities around sustainability issues. ESG takes a comprehensive view that extends beyond the environmental aspect to include the social and corporate governance aspects.
ESG metrics are non-financial indicators that evaluate companies' ESG performance. They are quantitative, such as GHG emissions; and qualitative, such as Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI).
ESG reporting is the public disclosure of ESG data. Its purpose is to shed light on a company’s ESG activities and improve transparency with investors.
ESG reporting offers many advantages to a business, including improved reputation, being more attractive to investors, competitive advantage, improved performance, resilient and sustainable business, capacity building, and climate change mitigation.
However, ESG reporting faces challenges such as the lack of a universal standard, being complex requiring specialized expertise, risk of greenwashing, and constantly changing regulations.
An ESG framework is a structured approach to ESG reporting. Using an ESG framework produces measurable, actionable, and credible results.
ESG standards translate ESG framework principles into action by specifying factors such as metrics, methodologies, and reporting formats. The absence of a universal ESG reporting standard has resulted in reliance on various standards.
The most commonly used ESG reporting standards include Task Force on Climate related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) and United Nations Global Compact (UNGC).
ESG compliance refers to meeting or exceeding ESG guidelines established by the compliance frameworks and regulatory bodies.
An ESG rating, also called an ESG score, provides a benchmark for investors to evaluate a company’s ESG performance and compare it to other companies.
Policy wise, the Sustainable Stock Exchanges (SSE) initiative was launched in 2009 to improve corporate transparency and performance on ESG issues. The SSE is coordinated by United Nations Global Compact (UNGC), UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), and UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA).
In this slideshow, you will learn about the definition, advantages, challenges, implementation steps, UN policy, and global statistics of ESG reporting. For more slideshows on environmental sustainability, please visit s2adesign.com
Today Sustainability and Sustainability reporting is buzz in every organisation. This presentation is just an awareness on sustainability and sustainability reporting process.
Environmental Sustainability has become an important aspect of business today. But many businesses aren't sure what to make of it. This is an introductory lecture about sustainability and how it can be practically related to business.
NL:
ESG Routekaart.
De dwingende uitdaging waarvoor wij staan op het gebied van milieu is, om met zijn allen de beweging in gang te zetten om de gemiddelde opwarming van de aarde tot 1,5 graden te beperken. Sommige belanghebbenden, gouvernementele organisaties en banken, vragen regelmatig om verbetering en het aanscherpen van de Europese wetgeving met betrekking tot het klimaat. De EU zou tegen 2050 een totale reductie van de binnenlandse emissies van 80% moeten realiseren. Door een eenduidig stappenplan te borgen, is een concrete stap naar verduurzamen. Denk daarbij aan de interne- en externe belanghebbenden te betrekken voor de implementatie van initiatieven om CO2-emissies te verminderen, of een stap verder zou zijn, om de emissies te compenseren. De Routekaart beschrijft aan de hand van analyses, en sector specifieke KPI’s, modellen hoe dit beleid goed zou kunnen worden geborgd in een Environmental Socio-Economic Governance beleid. De Routekaart biedt op de lange termijn een kosten efficiënt pad naar een schonere, klimaatvriendelijke bedrijf.
Short biography of the presenter; Ginio Franker, September 1966, Suriname.
Position Learning and Development NLP-trainer & Transpersoonlijke coach + Climate Leader trained by Al Gore. "A Moral Call to Climate Change" + "Environmental Justice".
Website www.greandream.com.
EN:
ESG-ROADMAP
With the effects of climate change already upon us, the need to cut global greenhouse gas emissions is nothing less than urgent. It’s a daunting challenge, but the technologies and strategies to meet it exist today. A small set of ESG policies, designed and implemented well, can put us on the path to a low carbon future. ESG Key Performance Indicators are complex, so they must be sector specific, focused and cost-effective. One-size-fits-all approaches simply won’t get the job done. Sustainability managers need a clear, comprehensive resource that outlines the ESG policies that will have the biggest impact on our climate future, and describes how to implement these policies well within their own organisations.
We don’t need to wait for new technologies or strategies to create a low carbon future—and we can’t afford to. ESG-ROADMAP gives professionals the tools they need to select, design, and implement the policies that can put us on the path to a livable climate future.
The Environmental Social Governance challenges e.g: on regulatory and reputational risks, market scandals and new market opportunities makes ESG information a data source of growing importance. With ESG in company seminars, round table discussions, scholarships and online association programs, we leave no one behind. Sign up today. Zentrepreneur Environmental Social Governance Associates Training. (ZESGA).
contact@esgwatch.eu
+32485773608 BE
+31630092220 NL
“Digital CO₂ Footprint” or “Digital Carbon Footprint”, is the emissions, occurring from the production, use and data transfer of digital devices it causes more CO₂ emissions than one might expect.
Business Model Innovation: Redesigning Value Delivery and Unlocking New Benef...Sustainable Brands
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Two Stories About Strongly Sustainable Business ModelsAntony Upward
A 30 minute video of this talk is available on the Strongly Sustainable Business Model Group's youTube Channel: http://youTube.com/ssBusinessModelTV http://youtu.be/cny6ZD4P6Bg.
In these slides Antony Upward, Sustainability Business Architect, tells two stories about Strongly Sustainable Business Models - explaining why they are better models for better business, and sharing the quest to find better tools to design these better business models.
This was a presentation delivered at the TiE Institute's Social Entrepreneurship Program - in the session entitled "Business Model Canvas and Customer Development" (http://www.tieinstitute.org/tie-institute/eventsdetails-TiESep2013BusinessModelCanvasandCustomerDevelopment).
The other speakers on that night (Prof. Dave Valliere, Director, Entrepreneurship Research Institute, Ted Rogers School of Management (Ryerson University), and Seema Pabari from Tiffinday) can be viewed on the TiE Institute's channel (http://www.youtube.com/user/TiEInstituteTO/videos?shelf_id=4&view=0&sort=dd).
If you'd like to stay in touch with our work on Strongly Sustainable Business Models then please
- Watch our ~3 minute introduction - http://about.SSBMG.com
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These are the slides I will be using for an executive workshop in Mexico on the topic of "Competitive Advantage through Business Model Design and Innovation"
Keynote. “Entrepreneurship as if the Planet Mattered”, First Indonesian Conference on Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Small Business”, Center for Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Leadership, Institute of Technology, Bandung (ITB), West Java, Indonesia July 22-23, 2009, http://www.ciel-sbm-itb.com/icies/
Two entrepreneurs (Henry Ford and Thomas Edison) 'caused' part of Earth’s precarious climate today by accelerating our dependence on fossil fuels. Our hope is that it will be an en-trepreneur – perhaps one that develops the hydrogen-powered automobile – who will save it.
Business educators have the opportunity to create a cohort of moral, ethical and sustainable entrepreneurs who can solve the world’s major problems. Gifford Pinchot once rightly pointed out, 'Business is the dominant institution of our time. It’s also the biggest leverage point.'
Another way of saying this is that without business, we cannot save the planet, and without saving the planet there can be no business.
It is time to create a cohort of gaiapreneurs (after the Greek goddess of Earth, Gaia), whom I define as 'marked by imagination, initiative and readiness to undertake projects to save the planet'.
Ours is an Asia-Pacific approach to teaching sustainability entrepreneurship based on the inter-disciplinarity of entrepreneurship. There are many 'entrepreneurships' (with an emphasis on the plural). Business entrepreneurship is well known. Science and engineering entre-preneurship probably rank second in student popularity behind business entrepreneurship. But we can also mention arts, music, biomedical, sports, nursing and humanities entrepre-neurship. The big difference is that the fate of an entire planet is at stake, and they have contributions to make. That’s what leads us to sustainability entrepreneurship.
The process of transforming creative ideas into commercially viable businesses in support of healing the earth is a major challenge for entrepreneurs. Education is key for many entre-preneurs to commercialise their ideas. Drawing upon the theory of experiential, entre-preneurs, in their unique teachable moments, require active and concrete pedagogical interventions that can be enhanced through a blended learning environment of online and face-to-face modalities leading them step-by-step through deepening learning in the theory, process and practice of entrepreneurship on behalf of people, profits and planet. That about sums it up.
An outline of a few 'buzzwords': CSR, SDG and linear economy vs. circular economy [AKA Circularity]
Offers a simple and realistic guide on how to implement circularity at our homes | small offices
Sustainability, Circularity, Circular Economy have a lot in common with the Agile mindset and values. Also Agilist need to step in and face this complexity to help organizations to run this transformations.
The Module will cover how companies can use corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives to showcase their commitment to sustainability and engage with their community. It will also touch on the role of marketing in promoting circular practices and how companies can use communication channels to raise awareness and encourage behaviour change.
I had the privilege of giving a talk on Green Innovation to students from the National University of Singapore, where I summed up some thoughts that my team and I have had over the years we have had in this space.
Sustainable Business: Realising the True Business Case.Mike Townsend
I would like to take you on a journey of discovery at various levels of the business case; the risks and opportunities for sustainable business. We'll explore the early stages, and the significant eco-efficiency benefits we can deliver, but then the going gets tougher, forcing us to look deeper into the changes we might need to make...
In this presentation, given to 30 Next Gen members of AFBN, I spoke about the need (and opportunity) for Next Generation leaders to retool themselves and their family businesses.
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New business models for sustainability
1. New Business Models for
Sustainability
International program
Green Sustainable Economy
University College Aalborg
Menno de Lind van Wijngaarden
2. Program
n Sustainability
n Business picking up the challenge
n Innovation for sustainability
n Social Entrepreneurship
n Circular economy
n Base of the pyramid
4. Sustainability
n The problems at hand:
n Pollution
n Resource depletion
n Natural ecosystems
n Resources
n Inequity
n Population growth
n Consumption growth
5. Sustainability approaches
n Mitigation strategies “If we act now we can
save the world as we know it”
n E.g. CO2 offset, Emission Trading Schemes
n Adaptation strategies “ be ready for a big
disruption”
n E.g. low carbon strategies, zero footprint
6. Program
n Sustainability
n Business picking up the challenge
n Innovation for sustainability
n Social Entrepreneurship
n Circular economy
n Base of the pyramid
7. The role of business
The culprit?
The answer to the solution?
8. Business as driver of change?
n Quick in response to external threats
n Know-how in-house, industrial networks, in
public-private partnerships.
n Capital available for investment
n Pressure over suppliers
n Influence over customers
n Round tables, covenants, standardizations
with competition
9. From obligation to opportunity
1945-1960’s
Pollution:
Denial or “part
of progress
1970’s-1980’s
End-of-Pipe
regulation.
Pay to reduce
negative
impact (trade-
off)
1980’s-2000
Greening:
pollution
prevention,
product
stewardship
(eco-
efficiency)
2000-present
Beyond
greening:
Clean
technology,
Base of the
Pyramid
13. Program
n Sustainability
n Business picking up the challenge
n Innovation for sustainability
n Social Entrepreneurship
n Circular economy
n Base of the pyramid
15. The process of innovation
n Idealized process of innovation
n In real life innovation will not be this neatly
categorized
Insight /
Research
Develop
ment
Design
Market
Evaluation
Produc
-tion
engineer
-ing
Market /
Pilot
testing
Full scale
manufac
-ture &
launch
Innovation
Research and Development Commercialization
17. The functions of a business model
Business Model
Invention
Value Creation
Value capture
18. Innovation and organization
n How can you foster innovation in your
organization?
n Business should have “ absorptive capacity”
n “the ability of a firm to recognize the value of
new, external information, assimilate it and
apply it to commercial ends”
19. Corporate culture
n In general, firms with a strong record of
innovation have a corporate culture that
values and promotes:
n Outward-looking orientation
n Facilitating communication
n Openness to new ideas
n Challenging established ideas
n Acceptability of failure
n Promotion of evaluation and reflection
20. Program
n Sustainability
n Business picking up the challenge
n Innovation for sustainability
n Social Entrepreneurship
n Circular economy
n Base of the pyramid
21. Example of Social Entrepreneur
n Muhammad Yunus
n Founder of the Grameen bank, it’s model of
microfinance inspired hundreds of banks to develop
similar business models
n Received the Nobel peace price in 2006
22. Social entrepreneurship
n Growing phenomena, because…
n Growing inequity
n Weak institutions, retrieving governments
n Scandals in corporate world
n Need for inspiration!
23. What is Soc. Entrepreneurship?
n Relative new research field therefore broad definition.
n ‘a process involving the innovative use and
combination of resources to pursue opportunities to
catalyse social change and/or address social needs.’
(Mair and Marti, 2006)
n Often a focus on the entrepreneur (the change agent);
personality, qualities, values and visions.
n Characterized by
n Social impact (Social return on investment)
n Innovation (business model)
n Market orientation (performance-driven,
competitive, co-operation across sectors.)
24. Example
• Restaurant chain ‘Fifteen’
• Founded by Jamie Oliver in 2002
• Each restaurant recruits unemployed and under-qualified young people, aged
between 18 and 24, from the local area and trains them to become qualified chefs
through an Apprentice Program.
• 220 have graduated since the start and more than 90 per cent of apprentices stay in
the business.
•The profit of the restaurants goes into the chef apprenticeship scheme
25. Philanthropy v.s. SE
Philanthropy Social Entrepreneurship
Spontaneous charity Reasoning about social return
Honoring sacrifice and justifying
weak results
Need for talent and expertise to
address challenges
Pure giving Business like approaches
Relieving suffering Solving the problem and its cause
Caring for people Empowering people
Dees, J. G. (2012)
But not just a bipolar strategy;
Some problems ask for philanthropy, others for SE
Most SE start with charity
The two different cultures can also be aligned.
26. Program
Sustainability
Business picking up the challenge
Innovation for sustainability
Social Entrepreneurship
Circular economy
The Natural Step
Natural capital
Cradle to Cradle
Base of the pyramid
27. Circular economy
Industry should move to closed loop systems
in alignment with laws of nature:
Circular Economy:
The Natural Step
Natural Capitalism
Cradle to Cradle
28. The Naturel Step
The Natural Step Karl-Henrik Robèrt
The Four System Conditions... . . . Reworded as The Four Principles of Sustainability
In a sustainable society, nature is
not subject to systematically
increasing:
To become a sustainable society we must...
1. concentrations of substances
extracted from the earth's crust
1. eliminate our contribution to the progressive buildup of substances
extracted from the Earth's crust (for example, heavy metals and fossil
fuels)
2. concentrations of substances
produced by society
2. eliminate our contribution to the progressive buildup of chemicals and
compounds produced by society (for example, dioxins, PCBs, and DDT
)
3. degradation by physical means 3. eliminate our contribution to the progressive physical degradation
and destruction of nature and natural processes (for example, over
harvesting forests and paving over critical wildlife habitat); and
4. and, in that society, people are
not subject to conditions that
systemically undermine their
capacity to meet their needs
4. eliminate our contribution to conditions that undermine people’s
capacity to meet their basic human needs (for example, unsafe working
conditions and not enough pay to live on).
29. Example
After receiving criticism on formaldehyde off-
gassing , use of PVC, paper and chlorine use
for catalogue, IKEA decided to work with The
Natural Step in 1992.
It is now the basis for their environmental
program; step by step environmental impact
reduction of all products.
30. Natural Capitalism 3 principles
• Buy the time to deal with the growing challenges
facing the planet by using all resources far more
productively. (=eco-efficiency)
• Redesign how we make all products and
provide services, using such approaches as
biomimicry and cradle to cradle.
• Manage all institutions to be restorative of
human and natural capital
31. Natural Capitalism
Increase productivity of natural resources
Whole system design
Adopting innovative techniques
Redesign production according to biological
models
Closed loop systems
Zero waste
Change the business model
Not selling lifts/elevators, but “leasing vertical
transportation”
32. Example: Interface Inc. carpet
Ray Anderson, CEO
Changed business
model
From selling to leasing
Evergreen lease “Floor
Covering Service”
33. Innovation of Business Models
From waste as a cost to a waste as an asset
Recycling factory in Kampala, Uganda pays cash p. kilo
plastics, has lead to numerous local initiatives, 43 people
working in the factory, hundreds make a living collecting. The
clean end products are sold to China for fibers of fleece and
carpets. The environment benefits too.
From car lease to mobility services
Athlon car lease, the biggest lease company of the
Netherlands closed a deal with the Dutch Railway, NS. It
offers now clients a car lease plus NS Business Card. Athlon
wants to become a mobility broker in 2020.
36. Waste = Food
Design producs and processes in such a way:
that resources remain available for human
use or the natural environment
That they are save for the environment and
can be reused: Waste = Food
Non renewables are valuable resource for
technosphere (food for process)
Non reusables are decomposable in the
biosphere (food for organisms)
37. Cradle to cradle book
Cradle to cradle: remaking the
way we make things
Written by Architect McDonough
and chemist Braungart
Published in 2002
39. Cradle to Cradle
In contrast to Cradle to Grave concept
Reduce, reuse, recycling (3 R’s)
Reducing: ‘poisoning’ at a slower rate
Reuse: products are not designed for this
purpose
Recycling: down cycling and potentially
dangerous
40. Cradle to Cradle
Focus on:
Design, start from the root of the problem
Biological processes, like ecological
systems
Not Eco-efficiency (3 R’s) but Eco-
effectiveness
Waste = Food principle
Biological nutrients and technical nutrients
41. What about the book?
Do you notice something about the physical
appearance of the book?
42. The Book itself
No Paper, but synthetic resins
Non toxic, recyclable (up cycle)
Superior durability and performance
Waterproof
Ink can be washed of
• As an example of their
concept: the book is a
‘technical nutrient’
43. C2C in Business
Ideas has followers among “big business”:
Nike, Ford Motor Company, Herman Miller
2 documentaries in NL attracted attention of
business
44. Example of certified C2C
Diapers fully recyclable, compostable and
flushable
No use of chlorine, plastics, latex, perfumes,
inks and dyes.
It takes up 500 years to biodegrade for a
normal disposable diaper in a landfill
45. C2C in the Netherlands
Happy Shrimp Farm
Heat exchange system with E.ON Power Plant
Biological filter bed
No damage to marine ecosystems
http://www.happyshrimp.nl/
46. Happy Shrimp Farm
Went bankrupt 23-06-2009
Shrimps didn’t grow fast enough, harvests too
small
2 partners are in conflict
600.000 debt at ING bank
49. Bottom of the Pyramid
Concept of C.K. Prahalad
4 billion people at bottom of economic
pyramid, with income less then $ 1.500 PPP
Can be seen as a latent market of goods and
services
Aggregated there is a huge potential
50. Bottom of the Pyramid
Removal of poverty penalty (=high prices due
to, local monopolies, inadequate access, poor
distribution, strong traditional intermediaries)
Find access to BOP market (urban easier than
rural areas)
Create capacity to consume (e.g. single serve
packaging)
51. Bottom of the Pyramid
Three A’s
AFFORDABILITY (single serve package)
ACCESS (high intensity of distribution)
AVAILABILITY (consumption when capacity is
there)
52. BOP market requirements
Innovative
High price performance
Conserving resources
Focus on functionality
Deskilled work / operation
Education of customers
High performance / endurance
53. Critique on BoP
By co-author Stuart Hart
Too many same products at lower prices, no
new approach
environmental unsustainable products and
services “dumped” on BoP market
Poor are not just consumers, should be
considered as partners in mutual learning
55. New Business Models
Conclusions:
Business as a driver for change, when primed for
innovation.
Government and regulating authorities needed for
leveling playing field, stimulation of innovation
Circular economy principles needed for
environmental solutions
Base of the Pyramid, social entrepreneurship for
social solutions
56. Thank you
Be the change that you want to see in the world.
Mohandas Gandhi
Editor's Notes
From: Blowfield, M. (2012). Business and sustainability. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p.61.
From: Blowfield, M. (2012). Business and sustainability. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p.65.
Currently we are entering the 6th wave; the wave of the life-sciences
From: Pless, N. M. (2012). Social Entrepreneurship in Theory and Practice—An Introduction. Journal of Business Ethics, 1–4. doi:10.1007/s10551-012-1533-x
From: Pless, N. M. (2012). Social Entrepreneurship in Theory and Practice—An Introduction. Journal of Business Ethics, 1–4. doi:10.1007/s10551-012-1533-x
From: http://www.fifteen.net/about
From: Dees, J. G. (2012). A Tale of Two Cultures: Charity, Problem Solving, and the Future of Social Entrepreneurship. Journal of Business Ethics, 1–14. doi:10.1007/s10551-012-1412-5
See article Lovins, A. B., Lovins, L. H., & Hawken, P. (1999). A Road Map for Natural Capitalism. Harvard Business Review