The sustainable organization—Introduction to the Framework for Sustainability Conversations, part 1/7
Yael Rozencwajg
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Summary
1. Introduction to the Framework for Sustainability Conversations
2. The sustainable organization, part 1/7
3. Weekly highlights and critical data about climate change
4. Archives and resources
5. Information
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1. Introduction to the Framework for Sustainability Conversations
“Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough.”― Richard P. Feynman
For products to work at scale, they need sustainable business models and networks. Society’s business expectations have changed more in the past two years than in the previous twenty: what we need now is to build with purpose.
A pandemic, expanding and ever-more-expensive natural disasters, attacks on democracy, and more: all contributed to us reaching a tipping point. Enterprises that thrive in this new environment will look different from past ones.
To build a future of greater human connection and wellbeing to address the biggest challenges of our era, we need to invest in new ways of thinking, sharing and engaging with our peers.
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2. The sustainable organization—Introduction to the Framework for Sustainability Conversations, part 1/7
2.1—Foreword
I ought to recognize that my motivation for this review was my a priori conviction that its title was a figure of speech. The past year's articles are, in effect, intentionally targeted to help move the needle. They describe many examples of how current economic systems are based on the fascinating reversal of responsibility and accountability.
Since businesses are primarily responsible for this haul and violations in their myriad forms, it is appropriate that a growing number of companies--and not only large organizations--ask themselves, how do we conduct business honorably in the latter days of industrialism and the beginning of an ecological age.
The problems to be faced are vast and complex, but come down to this: 7.75 billion people are breeding exponentially.
Sustainability must be ingrained in our grounded processes. To achieve success, stakeholders – including development partners and donors–will need to shift their focus from measuring the functionality of infrastructure investments to embedding the concept of sustainability into programming from the design and proposal phase through implementation, monitoring, and follow-up.
Moving away from an infrastructure obsession toward ensuring that services are maintained and improved indefinitely is especially ambitious in the context of mounting pressures on global markets.
Such forces are increasing risks from rising populations, urbanization, mitigating the effects of climate change, and ongoing changes to political, social, or financial backdrops.
2.2—Approach
In this first part, let's first start by defining what is a "sustainable organization".
There are six dynamics in moving towards a sustainable enterprise, we will explore each one of them during the following weeks:
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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. The framework is rooted in the collective ambition to strengthen organizational capacities to deliver lasting solutions while, as ever, leaving no one behind.
The framework consists of six parts linked to sustainable organization deployment: it offers guidance on understanding and integrating sustainability practices throughout program cycles, from the assessment phase to implementation and monitoring of results and feedback findings for reinforcement of course correction.
Available supporting tools and examples will be provided throughout guidance to simplified ’sustainability processes,’ including a list of core indicators and underlying factors to be analyzed in sustainability monitoring, has been developed and complements the different parts. The focus on sustainability is a welcome response, recognizing that newly delivered solutions fail too often and often do not provide endless benefits to their users.
Both research and practice have shown that achieving sustained universal coverage will require more than building infrastructures and increasing access to services.
Understanding how benefits are maintained overtime needs to be at the heart of all sector systems, at all levels – from local community interventions to more comprehensive service delivery, and at the national level, where the enabling environment for services needs to be strengthened to make sure that, once provided, services and the benefits to the end-user continue endlessly.
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2yI can't disagree more with Feyneman. Most of the world is trying to figure out what life is about. Poblem lies in that once we start, we cannot stop and say that's it. The search is lifelong. Doesn't mean we didn't figure out what life is all about. It just means that we go as far as the effort goes. Consider building that future of connection and well-being as an investment. Adopt what we learn here in your own life, even if it is at a small scale. The investment will start paying back once implemented and everyone will decide when to harvest the returns (try to measure its ROI, keep track). With this I mean that, like any other investment, it can either have a simple interest or a compund interest. The positive side is that you made an investment that has an intrinsic value, and that yields fruits at maturity. Most of the world's goverment and industries are spending lots of time and energy finding values to their investments, be it tons of CO2 mostly, because at the end of the day, the perception seems to be that every effort needs to be measured in terms of CO2. But what about, heat, water-use footprint? Or, seed-managment / waste? Or, habitat-soil recovery? How do we account those projects and their results into ESG, or CSR?