The positive and negative aspects of being green, What matters in sustainability?

The positive and negative aspects of being green, What matters in sustainability? The Framework for Sustainability Conversations, the takeaways

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📌 Summary

1. Weekly commentary, The Problem As I See It “The positive and negative aspects of being green” February 20, 2022 week #8
2. What matters in sustainability?
3. The Framework for Sustainability Conversations “The takeaways.”
4. Weekly highlights and critical data about climate change
5. Medica, podcast series, resources, and archives
6. Information

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1️⃣. Weekly commentary, “The positive and negative aspects of being green” February 2022 week #8

“For a person who is not aware that he is doing anything wrong has no desire to be put right. You have to catch yourself doing it before you can reform.”—Lucius Annaeus Seneca

2021 was a significant year for global climate change policy and market-based approaches to environmental protection. Yet, it went largely unnoticed around the world, outside, that is, of the most significant benefit of emissions, global greening, the increase year after year of green vegetation on the planet's land surface.

Some countries have already taken meaningful actions to strengthen environmental rules and boost clean energy options and are expected to get more challenging in these areas. But believing what happened at COP26, influences can be identified in the current preoccupation with sustainable development goals, calls for radical ecological economics, and movements against materialism, over-technification, developmentalism, and globalism.

Of course, the question is whether it will be possible to think differently and merely discover that this world represents various aspects of what we thought was the positive or negative impact of our footprints?

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2️⃣. 📝 Stepping back from the noise, I try to work out what matters in sustainability, what's really happening, and what it might mean.

I’m starting this weekly thread shared on Wednesdays called “What matters in sustainability“ to bring about better language, debate, understanding, and impact. The aim is not to support, endorse, or promote “one” idea, solution, technology, process, method, or opinion. But as a community, it is about sharing views and bringing critical thinking to improve our messages together. Every Friday, I’ll share insights and takeaways with Premium subscribers on Sustainability Insights.

Over the past few weeks, I had the chance to learn a lot from valuable conversations with some of you. I was able to gain more insights into some of your challenges.

Here are some points I’ve been discussing and that I am happy to explore over the following weeks:

• The sustainability world is extremely complex and little understood.
• There are multiple levels of consideration when adopting and deploying a sustainability plan in organizations.
• The concerns around sustainability matters cause friction and numerous concerns.
• Most sustainable business models fail, which is why everything you know about planning a sustainable strategy is probably wrong.
• Why do humanity's crises seem far from inevitable to bring back sustainability and improve resilience?

Of course, there are many more points that I look forward to sharing. Please feel free to comment so we can build a better future together.

The sustainability world is extremely complex and little understood.

What types of challenges do you encounter?

Please share your posts, articles, thoughts, and feedback on Sustainability insights.

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3️⃣. The Framework for Sustainability Conversations, the takeaways

The Framework for Sustainability Conversations considers different programming intervention levels and models, the upstream enabling environment, and the importance of meaningful interaction with communities to ensure better access to sustainability solutions.

There are six dynamics in moving towards a sustainable enterprise. Please find frameworks details and explanations in the links attached:

Open governance and compliance ▸ Explore more.

Value and supply chains, operations ▸ Explore more.

Work-life balance and place ▸ Explore more.

Products and services ▸ Explore more.

New business models ▸ Explore more.

Next practice platforms ▸ Explore more.

▸ Network leaders can then listen to the signals, react in time, demonstrate accountability and be confident in their decisions—[▸ Explore the dynamics of The Framework for Sustainability Conversations].

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4️⃣. This week by the numbers: climate change highlights and critical data

4.1—Curated articles of February 2022, week #8

• Morningstar cuts 1,200 funds from ‘sustainable’ list—[Read more on Financial Times]
• Gas Market Report, Q1 2022—[Read more on IEA]

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4.2—Data of the world, Data of the world, CO2: 3,076 days until we reach the 450ppm threshold

• CO2 levels as of February 19, 2022 = 418.60 ppm. A year ago: 416.94 ppm. Twenty-six years ago: 360 ppm.
• CO2 emissions by region: in the second half of the 20th century we see a significant rise in emissions, particularly across Asia, and most notably, China: 10.49 billion tonnes (Worldwide: 35 billion tonnes. This is more than 40% higher than emissions in 1990)**—[More info here].
• Global CO2 emissions rebound by nearly 5% in 2021, approaching the 2018-2019 peak.—[Read more IEA]

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