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This is insightful but it seems from what I have read THIS MAY NOT BE FULLY ACCURATE is it is more complex than this would have us believe. Over and over I look at dealing with the big issues at the source and then looking at how our behavior is feeding that too. A recent post about Coca Cola getting an environmental award with mention of how much they spend on marketing is definitely something to consider. So yes 100 companies NEED TO CHANGE their ways, MARKETING that takes advantage of psychology and how we are wired plays a HUGE part. Each of us raising awareness of this manipulation and of the destructive behaviors WE fall into that helps drive these industries is important too. I think the most productive thing we can do is WORK TOGETHER AT ALL LEVELS to make important changes to address ALL of this!

Are 100 businesses to blame for climate change? Or is it us as individuals? 𝗪𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗴 𝗾𝘂𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 😠 I͟t͟'͟s͟ ͟n͟o͟t͟ ͟e͟i͟t͟h͟e͟r͟/͟o͟r͟!͟ Yes, oil companies telling us to focus on our carbon footprints is outrageous. 🤬 But it's also deeply unhelpful to say that no one's choices make a difference. The choices we make influence businesses and policymakers. They help to create culture, to determine what we all deem possible.  And Vojtech Vosecky, what would it even mean for us to "focus on the largest companies and decision-makers"? Wouldn't that 'focus' be the collective result of our individual actions? 🤔 The boycott movement in apartheid South Africa, for example, focused on large companies with influence. And the boycott worked because many, many people took part.  Let's not let the worst polluters off the hook. And let's not blame each other for being imperfect. But please, let's not tell each other that we don't have any power to make a difference. ✊ ++ P.S. I'm CEO of environmental charity Hubbub. We bring business, government and civil society together to create campaigns that inspire & support people to make choices that are good for the environment. Follow me - Alex Robinson - for insights on environmental change, leadership and more. #environment #sustainability #climatechange

Check out our website on the Circular Economy Coalition (CEC)! The CEC aims to gradually decouple economic activity from the consumption of finite resources and tackle global challenges like climate change and pollution. Our website 🖥 offers our mission and goals, our team, and means to contact CEC if you want further information about the coalition. We invite you to visit https://lnkd.in/eiRp8DSa to learn about circularity and sustainability. Join us to build momentum for systems change across the United States. 🌎 #sustainable #circularity #circulaireeconomie #circular #circulareconomy #sustainablebusiness #sustainabledevelopment #sustainablefuture #sustainabledevelopmentgoals #sustainablefutures #methanereduction

We notice that there is a general overfocus on individual/consumer sustainability among youth NGOs. While we are happy to collaborate also in such individual initiatives (especially in an indirect way), since our foundation, we made the bold decision that our core cause would be different. We want ro raise awareness and foster systemic change, addressing corporate/institutional sustainability. We do this through a broad range of activities aimed at incrementing both the passion and skills of people in ESG employment and the willingness of companies & institutions to open such positions for the new generation of leaders. It is a known challenge to make people understand what the root cause of the problem is, and even among our own volunteers we often encountered misunderstandings and inability to see the bigger picture. We will keep faith to our core mission, and will keep raising awareness about it. Only acting in a systemic way - that we interpret as significantly increasing ESG workforce - we can make a real difference!

One of the subjects that was relatively new to me during my MBA studies was Sustainability Leadership. Our professor, dr Marta Drozdowska, prof. WAB, inspired me to start exploring the topic on my own even after the completion of the course. That's when I started following Vojtech Vosecky. Sharing with you something to think about. #ESG #Sustainabilty

I believe we need both. Can we continue to ask for more and more bottled .3l water (and not to refill ot or risk a disease because a fruit is not completely sealed etc) ... and continue to grow our electicity consumption like we do ... and continue to travel more and more in planes ... and in cars ... and reject and publicly criticise electric cars ... or use it twice as more as we used fosil fuel cars ... or consume water like we need a pool in every huge room inside our new huge second holliday house ... and so much more .. have more drones and huge tvs and gagets that we change each 12 months and faster and faster, consume literally a few pools of water and a lot of electricity with a push of a button for ai or crypto or others ... and produce tons of garbage per human? just multiply that with around 1 000 000 000 people who consume a lot now. and let's add around 1 000 000 000 more people that really need a house and a bed and a chair (not like us to make another huge room or holliday house etc). and another few billion people that want to see how it is like to live like us, the ones from the first category. I am not even mentioning the ammount of food waste and others ... I reduced to almost sero all of those things. If we add it all and multiply it ... perhaps then we will understand: it is us that buy the fosil fuels related products and services, plastics, etc . So we are empowering these corporations. I believe we can reduce and put more and more pressure to change the systems. but in the rithm we grow our consumption Plus the rithm of growing the number of people who need a house or toilet or other basic needs to live (including children). Plus the rithm of growing of people who ccan afford more and more (like us here, 20 years ago we didn't have the resources to consume so much; other people's revenues can grow and they afford more and more). Plus the rithm of population growth ... Realistically, how can all this growing be covered with ecological circular growth? How many years it takes to change a production line? to test the circularity, to improve, to change again? how much money? How much electricity and building materials or other resources? How much other stuff? If we also reduce consumption and we invest the resulting money in sustainable economy ... we can also give a chance to sustainability We can also give a chance to the people that don't have a toilet or a house. Immagine we invest the extra money we are left with in companies that print houses out of argile and other reusable materials. Or in greener energy production. Or in so many other things. We will still grow the "holly" economy. But we'll grow an economy that serves people while protecting or cleaning the nature (like, for instance, invest in the new technology to produce butter from co2 avsorbed from air). If we reduce buying coffe alchool and reduce our holliday or ... we can have the money to invest. I believe we need both.

100% 🌍 Creating a sustainable world requires both individual efforts and holding polluters accountable. We must advocate for practices that balance profitability with environmental responsibility. It's time for companies to take real responsibility and change their practices not just on paper, but in their operations! ♻️💼 #Sustainability #EnvironmentalResponsibility #CorporateAccountability

Indeed, indeed - all of us can do our share but as long as there is no larger top-down systemic change, there is no preventing the climate catastrophe. So we need clear and brave political directives to set a forward-looking agenda, fewer monopolies to prevent the super rich from exerting influence, more critical education right at the beginning to create more awareness and incentives for people to hop onto the train of positive change (cheesy but oh well) 🍃 Lukas Marzi Kevin Heinrich Kerstin S. Tamara Wurz Thanks for pointing it out Vojtech Vosecky #climateaction #systemicchange #climatepolicy #fossilfuels

According to a report cited by the Sustainable Packaging Coalition (SPC), materials—defined as aluminum, plastic, cement, steel, and food—account for 45% of global #emissions. Modern #infrastructure, advanced technology, and efficient #recycling processes offer a path toward #emissionsreduction to help combat climate change.