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Course 3: The public sector
responds to sustainability:
The role of partnerships
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Learning objectives
You will:
• Understand that an increasingly interdependent global
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• Understand key concepts in public sector sustainability
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Phillippe Cousteau, Jr.
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The critical role of partnerships
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Rise of the NGO
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Changing role of NGOs
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Eliminated more than 300 million pounds of packaging waste
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Changing role of governments
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Montreal Protocol
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The United Nations Global Compact Principles
Human Rights
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Principle 1: Businesses should support and respect the protection of internationally
proclaimed human rights; and
Principle 2: make sure that they are not complicit in human rights abuses.
Labor
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Principle 3: Businesses should uphold the freedom of association and the effective
recognition of the right to collective bargaining;
Principle 4: the elimination of all forms of forced and compulsory labor;
Principle 5: the effective abolition of child labor; and
Principle 6: the elimination of discrimination in respect of employment and occupation.
Environment
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Principle 7: Businesses should support a precautionary approach to environmental
challenges;
Principle 8: undertake initiatives to promote greater environmental responsibility; and
Principle 9: encourage the development and diffusion of environmentally friendly
technologies.
Anti-Corruption
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Principle 10: Businesses should work against corruption in all its forms, including
extortion and bribery.
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Governance at the national level:
SmartWay and WaterSense case studies
Governments are seeking new ways to work across
public and private sector boundaries to address
critical sustainability issues.
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Governance at the local level:
Grand Rapids, MI
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Interdependencies
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Reflection
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economic
environment?
situation
of its
people?
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Social case study
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Social case study:
Water
Jason Morrison, Director of Economic Globalization and the Environment Program at the Pacific Institute, participates in a
panel discussion on how companies are preparing for an anticipated water crisis.
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Social case study:
Water
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Social case study:
Water.org
Matt Damon, Co-Founder of Water.org, describes what the non-profit organization is doing to affect change in
developing countries.
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Social case study:
Water.org
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Economic issue case study:
Fair Trade
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Economic issue case study:
Fair Trade
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Economic issue case study:
Microfinance
The poorest 40 percent of the world’s population accounts for
5 percent of global income.
The richest 20 percent accounts for three-quarters of world
income.
There are 2.2 billion children in the world.
One billion of these children live in poverty.
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Environment issue case study:
Climate change
Tom Brokaw, television journalist, explores possible solutions to global warming.
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Environment issue case study:
Climate change
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Environment issue case study:
Climate change discussions at the national level
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Environment issue case study:
Climate change discussion at the local level
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Review of key learnings
Corporations, governments, NGOs and individuals all have a role in a
more sustainable future
• Partnerships are critical in our quest for a more sustainable future
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• NGO role has changed
o Increased in quantity, scope and budget
o Key player in helping to set the agenda, provide information and
solutions
o Work in partnership with industry and government
• Government role has changed
o On local, national and international level, governments increasingly
work in partnership with other governments, industry and individuals
to achieve goals
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Governments and NGOs have implemented many partnership efforts to
tackle key sustainability issues in social, economic and environmental
dimensions of society
Each issue has spillover impact in other dimensions, thus all actions
must be carefully considered for affect in all areas
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Assessment
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Which of the following is true about non-governmental
organizations, or NGOs?
A)
In an increasingly interdependent society, NGOs have become less
influential in impacting the global sustainability movement.
B)
NGOs are usually protest organizations that mobilize to highlight a
particular cause.
C)
NGOs have become an integral player in global partnership efforts –
along with business and government – which are critical to achieving a
more sustainable future.
D)
NGOs and corporations have such disparate goals and agendas with
respect to global sustainability issues, that their relationships can most
often be described as “antagonistic.”
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Which of the following accurately describes the mission of
the Global Forest Trade Network?
A)
To enact policy that regulates the global timber industry.
B)
To work together with corporations with a stake in the fate of forests
and timber to address deforestation and biodiversity loss around the
world.
C)
D)
To set global standards for environmentally-friendly paper.
To organize global protests aimed at raising awareness of
irresponsibly grown and harvested timber.
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The Global Reporting Initiative, or GRI, provides a
comprehensive framework for institutions to measure and
report their _________, __________, and __________
performance.
A) Economic; environmental; social
B) Economic; environmental, technological
C) Environmental; social; technological
D) Local; national; international
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Globally, __________ people are estimated to be without
access to clean drinking water and __________ people
don’t have access to clean water for sanitation.
A) 100 million; 500 million
B) 500 million; 1.5 billion
C) One billion; three billion
D) Three billion; five billion
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Which of the following is a system that that ensures farmers
are paid a “living wage” for their goods?
A) Microfinance
B) Sustainability
C) Fair trade
D) UN Global Compact
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Which of the following might be considered a microfinance
program?
A)
Providing a small low-interest loan to poor rural farmers to buy
livestock that helps them grow their business.
B)
Training a group of people without access to education to become
bankers.
C)
Guaranteeing a fair, stable, minimum price to a local farmer or
artisan for a good or commodity.
D)
Creation of an NGO to provide financial management expertise to
institutions in a developing country.
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The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC),
which provides objective information about climate change
to the public and to policy makers, has released several
major assessments on climate change which indicate that:
A)
B)
There is not enough data to indicate that climate change is a real issue.
Efforts to reduce climate change have made significant progress in recent
years, and the issue is becoming less serious.
C)
Climate change is a very real issue, with emissions from human activities
substantially increasing the atmospheric concentrations of the greenhouse
gases which change our climate.
D)
For the first time in 20 years, the atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse
gases have stabilized.
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