Dąbrowa Górnicza, Poland

Sustainability Manager in Practice – ESG and VSME

Menedżer Zrównoważonego Rozwoju w praktyce – ESG i VSME

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⇑Sustainability Manager in Practice – ESG and VSME at AWSB

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Sustainability

Sustainability (from 'sustain' and 'ability') is the process of change, in which the exploitation of resources, the direction of investments, the orientation of technological development and institutional change are all in harmony and enhance both current and future potential to meet human needs and aspirations. The organizing principle for sustainability is sustainable development, which includes the following interconnected domains: environment, economic and social. Sub-domains of sustainable development have been considered also: cultural, technological and political. Sustainable development, is the development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. Brundtland Report for the World Commission on Environment and Development (1992) introduced the term of sustainable development.

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Manager

The corporate manager who achieves success by honest efficiency in giving the best service to the public should be favored because we all beneﬁt by his efficiency. […] he should be helped by the Government because his success is good for the National welfare. But a man who, grasps and holds business power by breaking the industrial efficiency of others, who wins success by methods which are against‘ the public interest and degrading to the public morals, should not be permitted to ‘ exercise such power. Instead of punishing him by a long and doubtful process of the law after the wrong has been com- mitted, there should be such effective Government regulation as to check the evil tendencies at the moment that they start do develop.

Theodore Roosevelt (1910) The Progressives, Past and Present

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Sustainability

These, then, are some of the basic principles of ecology—interdependence, recycling, partnership, flexibiility, diversity, and, as a consequence of all those, sustainability. ...the survival of humanity will depend on our ecological literacy, on our ability to understand these principles of ecology and live accordingly.

Fritjof Capra The Web of Life (1996) "Epilogue: Ecological Literacy." p.304

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Sustainability

We have an economy where we steal the future, sell it in the present, and call it GDP [gross domestic product].

Paul Hawken Top 10 Myths About Sustainability at mindfully.org, 2009.

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