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What is the main sustainability activity that organisations are currently engaged with? Are there any further sustainability activities that some organisations might be engaged with? If so what goals are these organisations trying to achieve? Provide examples in your answer.
On Jun 25, 2024
While many organisations are most occupied with extending the productive life of organisations and maintaining high levels of corporate performance, an increasing number of organisations are actively addressing three other sustainability activities that seek to: (i) maintain decent levels of welfare for present and future generations; (ii) enhance society's ability to maintain itself to solve its major problems; and (iii) enhance the planet's ability to maintain and renew the biosphere and protect all living species. The goals organisations may be seeking through engaging with these three issues may be to create 'shared value'. This allows organisations to increase productivity and profits through engaging with sustainability activities. Interface, for example, are pursuing a 'shared value' goal of zero emissions. Through eliminating waste, recycling and developing environmentally friendly production processes, products and services Interface is able to reduce their footprint on our planet.