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Perhaps one of the biggest issues to rise to prominence across every aspect of

business and society in the opening years of the twenty-first century has been

‘sustainability’. The growing concern with the environment, in particular the possi-

bility of climate change through global warming, has led to a focus on how human

and economic activity has the potential to adversely impact the long-term sustain-

ability of the planet.

The definition of sustainability that is most widely used originates from the

United Nations Brundtland Commission, which reported in 1987. Sustainability, the

Commission suggested, was about

meeting the needs ...