Sustainable development 2014
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AT A GLANCE OUR APPROACH TO CREATING VALUE OUR GOVERNANCE AND MANAGEMENT APPROACH
SAFE AND EFFECTIVE PEOPLE WHO RESPECT AND CARE SOCIAL CAPITAL AND LICENCE TO OPERATE CONSERVING NATURAL RESOURCES AND MITIGATING IMPACTS
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our approach to creating value
Responding to the WBCSD, NDP, DPFA

   
THE GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE  
World Business Council on Sustainable Development Vision 2050
WBCSD vision 2050   Context and commitments  
  • People's values
    People living well, and within the limits of the planet
  • Understanding and encouraging change through cooperation, so that sustainable living becomes mainstream
  • Promoting healthy people, healthy societies, healthy business
  • Human development
    Basic needs of all are met
  • Building trust, entrepreneurialism, inclusiveness
  • Business reaches out, trading and training
  • Delivering the infrastructure for human development
  • Economy
    True value, true cost, true profit
  • Redefining progress: true value must drive inclusive markets.
  • Financing based on long-term value
  • Accounting for the real world
  • Driving inclusive markets through true value
  • Accelerating innovation through efficiencies
  • Agriculture
    Enough food, water and biofuels through a new Green Revolution
  • Cultivating knowledge-intensive agriculture
  • Research delivers progress in food and biofuel
  • Promoting growth in global trade, crop yield and carbon management  
  • Energy and power
    Secure and sufficient supply of low-carbon energy
  • Greenhouse gas emissions peak and decline
  • Promote demand side efficiency
  • Contribute to 2050 goal of 50% reduction in global CO2 emissions on 2005 levels
  • Reduced cost of renewables
  • Buildings
    Close to zero net energy buildings
  • Developing resource-efficient buildings: all new buildings to use zero net energy, and enforce strict energy efficiency regulations
  • Mobility
    Universal access to safe and low-impact mobility
  • Promoting integrated transport solutions and smarter mobility, to enable near universal access to reliable, low-impact mobility
  • Developing alternative drivetrains and fuels
  • Materials
    Not a particle of waste
  • Improving the eco-efficiency of resources and materials
  • Eliminating waste by closing the material loop and embracing life cycle thinking
  • New business models for manufacturing, design and recycling
  • Forests
    Recovery and regeneration
  • Increasing forest protection and efficient production
  • Ceasing deforestation
  • Committing to carbon cuts and driving progress through carbon incentives