Sustainability Foundations: Core Concepts

Introduction

• Sustainability and transformation

1. What Is Sustainability?

• Definition of sustainability
• The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
• Sustainability is a global and local issue

2. Three Paradigms at the Root of the World’s Unsustainable Path

• Circular model of production and consumption
• Move to dynamic thinking
• Systems approach
• Unpacking the systems approach

3. Environmental Sustainability

• Net zero
• Nature positive
• Environmental resilience

4. Sustainability Accounting and Reporting

• Carbon and environmental accounting
• Climate risk

5. Need for Transformation

• Three transformations for a sustainable world