sustainable business model Articles
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Which benefits can the alignment with the SDGs bring to your organization?
The adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in 2015 has made a U-turn in how organizations and companies perceive a business model that has been used for almost three decades. The industrial business model, that is based on a linear approach and the depletion of scarce natural resources and all-for-profit attitude, has become outdated due to its inability to address the environmental ...
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Recovery, Recycling and Revenues
Earlier this year, the UK’s Local Government Association (LGA) revealed that almost 615,000 tonnes of material is disposed of in England, even though it can be reused. It was calculated that by reusing this household waste, British tax payers could save up to £60 million. Most industries produce some form of waste whether it’s broken machinery, surplus food, or unused ...
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Empowering environmental entrepreneurs in emerging economies
This is the fifth installment of a five-part blog series on scaling environmental entrepreneurship in emerging markets. In this series, experts in the field provide insights on how business accelerators, technical assistance providers, investors, and the philanthropic community can work with developing market entrepreneurs to increase their economic, environmental, and social impacts. Read the ...
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Manifesto for a resource-efficient Europe
In a world with growing pressures on resources and the environment, the EU has no choice but to go for the transition to a resource-efficient and ultimately regenerative circular economy. Our future jobs and competitiveness, as a major importer of resources, are dependent on our ability to get more added value, and achieve overall decoupling, through a systemic change in the use and recovery of ...
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Wanted: A Steve Jobs for sustainability
Where is the Steve Jobs of sustainability? The business leader with the big, disruptive ideas—and the force of will—to achieve for sustainable production and consumption what Apple’s visionary chief did for global technology and information? This question springs strongly to mind after attending the Rio+20 conference. Unlike the original Earth Summit 20 years earlier, business ...
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Woodfuel action plan development case study
Through this in-depth study which covers 12 regions of Tanzania mainland, Camco will develope a sustainable charcoal business plan model. The main objectives of this assignment included: to conduct an in-depth study to fill the knowledge gaps associated with the charcoal sector to complete this information with a situation analysis of the woodfuels sub-sector to develop a national Woodfuels ...
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Innovating business models for sustainability
How innovation in products, processes and business models can help organisations become more sustainable. By Richard Waters, Principal, Carbon Trust Advisory. Regulation, cost, reputation, revenue and risk management are driving many organisations to cut their carbon emissions, and become more sustainable. More businesses are looking at how they can put environmental sustainability at the heart ...
By Carbon Trust
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Editorial: The contribution of sustainable investments to sustainable development
Financial markets play a pivotal role in our economy in that the allocation of resources through these markets determines, to a significant degree, the development of our society. The way we invest today has an effect on the way society will function and produce in the future. Even a small shift in the behaviour of the actors on the financial markets can have significant consequences on other ...
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