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Full Description
This book presents discussions with corporate practitioners on several topics around sustainability. Between May 2019 and November 2022, the author engaged in dialogues with Senior Executives representing major multinational corporations, overseeing their corporate sustainability endeavours. The thematic spectrum of these conversations encompassed diverse topics such as The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, Water-stressed regions, Ocean Plastic, Chemical Recycling, Renewable Energy, Sustainable Tourism, and the Just Transition, among others, with each episode concentrating on a singular subject. In this book supporting illustrations and graphs together with background references enrich the insights the conversations convey. The reader will learn about the sustainability challenges companies are facing and how they approach them. The book gives examples of sustainable solutions and international collaborations around greenhouse gas reduction, circular economy, restorative tourism as well as reducing plastic pollution and other global sustainability challenges.
Contents
Chapter 1. A Brief History of Corporate Sustainability: A conversation with John Elkington.- Chapter 2. The United Nation Sustainable Development Goals.- Chapter 3. Human Rights in the Supply Chain.- Chapter 4. Sustainable Business Transformation - A Renewable Energy Example.- Chapter 5. Water the New Oil.- Chapter 6. A Global Company with a Purpose.- Chapter 7. Sustainable Tourism and Corporate Governance in Asia.- Chapter 8. Business Integration of Sustainability - The Customer Perspective.- Chapter 9. Chemical Recycling.- Chapter 10. Sustainability and Science - for Impact and Value Chain Resilience.- Chapter 11. Business Success with Purpose.- Chapter 12. Social Innovation.- Chapter 13. Energy Transition Scenarios.- Chapter 14. Ocean Plastics.- Chapter 15. Sustainable Packaging.- Chapter 16. Sustainable Procurement.- Chapter 17. Sustainable Mining and the Biodiversity Challenge.- Chapter 18. Decarbonising Container Shipping.- Chapter 19. Just Transition.- Chapter 20. Epilogue: Net Positive.
