“The era of procrastination, of half-measures, of soothing and baffling expedients, of delays is coming to its close. In its place we are entering a period of consequences.” - Winston S. Churchill. This period nonetheless, started a long time ago. What we all face today is the consequence of ‘Global Warming’, the result of our delays, isindeed catastrophic.
The movie “An Inconvenient Truth” by Davis Guggenheim highlights Al Gore’s lecture circuit, as the former presidential candidate who campaigns to raise public awareness of the dangers of global warming and calls for immediate action in order to avoid its effects by showing a comparison between the past environmental conditions and in the present state. He focuses that everyone should follow …show more content…
In China, 35 non-state-owned enterprises joined the government's relief work and the donations of food and clothes are worth more than 260,000 yuan (31,000 U.S. dollars). Global warming paradoxically also causes “Drought”. According to the studies, along with the increase in precipitation global warming relocates the precipitation and the greatest hits of these drought conditions were Darfur and Niger in the African continent. The International Rescue Committee aided 84,000 Darfuri refugees in three camps in eastern Chad and offered services to 33,000 Chadians living nearby. The IRC runs schools, health centers and water and sanitation programs in the camps.
The next piece is about the melting of the Arctic Circle and Greenland. These regions are claimed to experience faster impacts of global warming than other regions. The thickness of this ice has decreased by 40% in the last 50 years. Rise in temperatures thaws permafrost and has endangered the infrastructure of the land and releases even more carbon into the atmosphere. Greenland based Cairn Energy is considered to be responsible for the pollution in the Greenland region and surrounding area. Shell, …show more content…
The rising population is directly proportional to the ever increase in demand for various goods and services. These consumption patterns are related to the concept of “Ecological Footprint” which is a measure of human impact on Earth's ecosystems i.e. it calculates the natural capital consumed each year. The Global Footprint Network is a measure which calculates the global ecological footprint from UN and other data. They had estimated that our planet has been using natural capital 1.5 times as fast as nature can renew it as per the data of the year 2007. UN Global Compact is the World’s largest corporate sustainability initiative which helps companies, whether big or small meet their commitments to operate responsibly and support the society. Participants from India include Jindal Steel and Power Ltd. Tata chemicals, Tata Steel, Infosys Ltd. UN Global Compact ensures that businesses’ add not only profitability in the economy but also add value in terms of people, commitment and the planet. This brings us to the topic of Triple Bottom Line or TBL. It is a framework that includes 3 dimensions (social, ecological, environment) to evaluate a business’ sustainability. It prioritizes people and planet while also promoting the profitable aspect. General Electric, Unilever, Proctor and Gamblemeasure sustainability using the TBL concept.Southwest airlines is a great example for a TBL company, for 20 consecutive years, it has
The movie “An Inconvenient Truth” by Davis Guggenheim highlights Al Gore’s lecture circuit, as the former presidential candidate who campaigns to raise public awareness of the dangers of global warming and calls for immediate action in order to avoid its effects by showing a comparison between the past environmental conditions and in the present state. He focuses that everyone should follow …show more content…
In China, 35 non-state-owned enterprises joined the government's relief work and the donations of food and clothes are worth more than 260,000 yuan (31,000 U.S. dollars). Global warming paradoxically also causes “Drought”. According to the studies, along with the increase in precipitation global warming relocates the precipitation and the greatest hits of these drought conditions were Darfur and Niger in the African continent. The International Rescue Committee aided 84,000 Darfuri refugees in three camps in eastern Chad and offered services to 33,000 Chadians living nearby. The IRC runs schools, health centers and water and sanitation programs in the camps.
The next piece is about the melting of the Arctic Circle and Greenland. These regions are claimed to experience faster impacts of global warming than other regions. The thickness of this ice has decreased by 40% in the last 50 years. Rise in temperatures thaws permafrost and has endangered the infrastructure of the land and releases even more carbon into the atmosphere. Greenland based Cairn Energy is considered to be responsible for the pollution in the Greenland region and surrounding area. Shell, …show more content…
The rising population is directly proportional to the ever increase in demand for various goods and services. These consumption patterns are related to the concept of “Ecological Footprint” which is a measure of human impact on Earth's ecosystems i.e. it calculates the natural capital consumed each year. The Global Footprint Network is a measure which calculates the global ecological footprint from UN and other data. They had estimated that our planet has been using natural capital 1.5 times as fast as nature can renew it as per the data of the year 2007. UN Global Compact is the World’s largest corporate sustainability initiative which helps companies, whether big or small meet their commitments to operate responsibly and support the society. Participants from India include Jindal Steel and Power Ltd. Tata chemicals, Tata Steel, Infosys Ltd. UN Global Compact ensures that businesses’ add not only profitability in the economy but also add value in terms of people, commitment and the planet. This brings us to the topic of Triple Bottom Line or TBL. It is a framework that includes 3 dimensions (social, ecological, environment) to evaluate a business’ sustainability. It prioritizes people and planet while also promoting the profitable aspect. General Electric, Unilever, Proctor and Gamblemeasure sustainability using the TBL concept.Southwest airlines is a great example for a TBL company, for 20 consecutive years, it has