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Breakthrough Supply Chains: How Companies and Nations Can Thrive and Prosper in an Uncertain World
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Breakthrough Supply Chains: How Companies and Nations Can Thrive and Prosper in an Uncertain World

by Christopher Gopal, Gene Tyndall, Wolfgang Partsch, Eleftherios Iakovou
June 2023
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
320 pages
6h 33m
English
McGraw-Hill
Audiobook available
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CHAPTER 8

Sustainability

The New Imperative: Environmental, Social, and Corporate Governance (ESG) Issues

There’s no such thing as a free lunch.

—Milton Friedman1

The UN secretary-general’s August 2021 statement on the much-anticipated Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report:

Today’s IPCC Working Group 1 Report is a code red for humanity. The alarm bells are deafening, and the evidence is irrefutable: greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel burning and deforestation are choking our planet and putting billions of people at immediate risk. Global heating is affecting every region on Earth, with many of the changes becoming irreversible.2

It is very difficult to discuss sustainability and environmental, social, and governance ...

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ISBN: 9781264991884