Thoughts and Ideas
3 Reasons for Implementing Sustainability Goals
Implementing sustainability goals can be beneficial for your business in three ways. Firstly, it increases innovation and collaboration by delivering innovative solutions to global issues such as climate change, water and food crises, poverty, conflict, and inequality. Secondly, working towards a sustainable business model can enhance how customers perceive your company and products or services. Lastly, sustainable practices can enable risk management by mitigating environmental, social, and governance risks, making life easier for you and your business. The United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) provide powerful goals for improving our world by laying out where we must go and how to get there. All companies, regardless of their industry or size, can contribute to SDG.
Who Can Reduce The Plastic Crisis?
The top 20 producers in 2019 of single-use plastic items make 50 % of all items globally. The top 100 producers account for 90 % of the products produced. Single-use Plastic (SUP) is 98 % manufactured from fossil fuels and accounts for 1/3 of the plastic made. This use of virgin plastic means more pollution in the environment, less recycling, and more waste. A small group of people can change the world better if they move away from single-use plastics to produce their products.
Decreasing Wildlife Populations
The Living Planet Report by the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) and World Wildlife Fund (WWF) is responsible for the Living Planet Index. This project gathers data on the Earth's biodiversity. In 2020, the Living Planet Index reported a 68 % decline in wildlife populations since 1970. This one number is a reflection of 20,000 individual stories on how each animal species is surviving. Having one value is a great way to get an overall understanding; knowing the status of each population is extremely important. This knowledge allows us to prioritize conservation efforts on threatened specials and groups. Looking below the Index value, one can see if different groups have more Stable, Increasing, or Decreasing Populations.