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Shanghai!
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Ralph Thurm!
Senior Advisor BSD Consulting!
Founder, A|HEAD|ahead!
From ‚Sustain‘Ability to
‚Thrive‘Ability!
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Developing the context for a
‚green & inclusive economy‘ !
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WEF 2010: „Our current economic model is a!
global suicide pact. (...) We mined our way to!
growth. We burned our way to prosperity. We!
believed in consumption without
consequences. Those days are gone.“ !
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„The new forecast (...) raises!
the possibility that human-!
kind might not survive on the!
planet if it continues its path!
of overconsumption and!
short-termism“ !
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Decades of foot-dragging by!
political leaders had propelled!
humanity intoa critical !
situation, with greenhouse emissions rising!
faster than ever. Though it remains technically!
possible to keep planetary warming to a tolerable!
level, only an intensive push over the next 15 years!
(…) can achieve the goal.!
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§56: (…) we consider a green economy in the!
context of sustainable development and!
poverty eradication as one of the important tools!
available for achieving sustainable!
development (…).
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[Rio+20: The Future We Want, 2012]!
9. We need … a ‘Big Shift’ from
‘Sustaining’ to ‘Thriving’ ;-)!
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We need … a resource-revolution … while
availability diminishes and time is scarce!
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We need … a carbon-intensity revolution …
if a 2 degree global warming target is kept!
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PWC: Low Carbon !
Economy Index 2014 !
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We need … a renewable energy revolution
… to escape the energy returns ‘cliff edge’!
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Source: Report ‘The perfect storm’!
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We need … a circular and sharing
economy – with unimaginable efficieny!
Accenture: Circular Advantage, 2014!
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We need … a new discussion about growth
… to calibrate ‘feasible’ growth strategies!
1. Biophysical Throughput
4. Natural Resources3. Economic Welfare
2. Production & Consumption
…if in service of 3 and 4
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We need … a new understanding of
wellbeing of employees!
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Source: Gallup World Poll, State of the Global Workplace!
http://www.gallup.com/strategicconsulting/164735/state-global-workplace.aspx !
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We need … to act on the ‘tragic disconnect’
between sustainability and economic theory!
• Abuse of Adam Smith’s ‘invisible hand
of the market’ paradigm!
• Economy as leading discipline!
• Concept of the artificial ‘homo
economicus’!
• Macro-economic and micro-economic
indicators of success (GDP and EVA)!
• The neglect of external effects and the
unwillingness to monetarize and
internalize them!
• Lack of interdisciplinary collaboration
(sociology, biology, tax theory)!
• Ignorance to discuss ‘purpose’ of
economic theory in a radically changing
world, leading to the folly of growth!
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We need … a reporting revolution … to
describe our legacgy for ‘the future we want’!
‘SustainAbility’ as
corporate
responsibility!
(the license to
operate)!
‘ThriveAbility’ as a
primary lens for
strategy and
innovation!
(the license to grow)!
Need to close the !
‘sustainability!
context!
gap’!
Need to shift!
emphasis from!
‘ability to sustain’ to!
‘ability to thrive’!
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More than two decades in this agenda … we
have only harvested low hanging fruit…!
• Global Reporting Initiative & IIRC!
• UN Global Compact!
• WBCSD
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• Dow Jones Sustainability Index, …!
• CDP
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• Global Footprint Network!
• TEEB, the Natural Capital Coalition!
• The Ruggie Framework for Human Rights!
• The OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises!
• ISO (14001, 26000, …)
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• The internet (awareness raising, community building, crowdsourcing/-
funding, activism, innovation…)!
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• Reported information is
- mostly relative
- in comparison to past
performance
- mostly efficiency driven
- hard to compare
- showing ‘less bad’
- limited to the reporter’s own
legal boundaries!
• Ratings and rankings are
- mainly ‘best in class’ approaches
- mostly methodological black boxes
- useless to show real impact!
• Sustainability is managed
- technocratically, mechanistically
- without a ‘world view’
- without a long-term vision!
… but we still don’t know if we are
‘sustainable’ and what is ‘good enough’!
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GRI G4 – Sustainability Context Principle!
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The ultimate!
litmus test in!
sustainability!
reporting!
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Stickerboard on transformation needs in reporting!
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The strategic context of sustainability reporting –
how to achieve a license to ‘grow’?!
Global Planetary
Boundaries ->
Addressing
Limits To Growth
In Corporate
Strategies!
From Report to
Reporting – use
of IT and Big
Data, from dialog
to collaboration!
Environmental
And Social Profit/
Loss Accounts To
Assess Impacts
In Value Cycles?!
Developing
‘Science-Based
Goals’ And
Indicators for
Reporting!
Net-Positive &
Gross-Positive
Impact As The
Business Case
For Sustainability!
True costing, true
pricing and true
taxation needed
globally to design
resilient&circular
economies!
Sustainable
Development
Goals As
Pathways Or
Corridors For
Agreed Action!
Integrated
Reporting Based
On Assessment
Of Six Value-
Creating Capitals!
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Changes in corporate and social realities ask
for profiling and positioning in reporting!
• Green & Inclusive Economy, Circular Economy, Resilient &
Regenerative Economy, Sustainable Development Goals (2015),
Integrated Reporting, Net Positive Impact: discussion about
sustainability becomes ‘systemic’ and reporting needs to capture this!
• Positioning and profiling of reporters in this changing world towards a
‘green & inclusive economy is challenged internally and externally
and needs to be legitimized; the legacy is at stake!
• Contributions to (ecologic and social) value-added through classical
(economic) value creation is challenged mid-to-long-term (rebound
effects, collateral damage, stranded assets, bailouts, etc.)!
• Accounting and governance rules will need to change!
• No new economic paradigm without true costing, pricing, taxation!
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Facilitating the necessary developments …
www.reporting3.org!
Purpose - Practicability - Performance!
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Design formats of the platform…!
Reporting 3.0 Platform Formats:!
• Yearly conference in October: serves as a culmination point, an international caleidoscope of
developments on global scale, and as a trigger point for the Reporting 3.0 Platform work
program in the following year (synopsis)!
• Central Transition Labs: deepen discussion and developments in areas of specific interest,
e.g. sustainability context, convergence, new forms of dialog and collaboration, new business
models, developments in IT and big data for sustainability!
• Local Transition Labs: in 2015 the Reporting 3.0 Platform will also work on 4 continents to
capture the specific areas of interest in the various regions!
• Projects: 2015 will see the start of specific projects in which diverse groups of companies will
work on specifically supported projects, aimed at assessing, operationalizing and
implementing some of the outcomes of Labs and the Conference Synopsis!
• Roundtables: trigger points to attract companies, public authorities and interest groups to find
out about the Reporting 3.0 Platform and how they can benefit from taking part!
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Sustainability, with its focus on risk reduction and optimization of the existing
system, has failed to close the gap between what is needed for a thriving
future and the trajectory we are currently on. Impact minimization has failed
to motivate the vast majority of mankind and most businesses to change
their mindset and their behavior. !
What
is
needed
is
a
new
worldview
that
supports
the
mindsets,
models,
methods
and
prac5ce
to
make
the
shi7
to
sustained
thrival
for
all.
That
is
the
promise
of
ThriveAbility.
Learning about ‘Thrive’Ability …!
www.thriveability.zone!
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‘It’s
5me
we
steered
by
the
stars,
not
by
the
light
of
each
passing
ship’
(Omar
Bradley)