BASF_Eco-Efficiency_Analysis_Excerpt.pdf-renditions/cq5dam.thumbnail.500.500.png' alt='Eco-Efficiency The Business Link To Sustainable Development Pdf' title='Eco-Efficiency The Business Link To Sustainable Development Pdf' />Opportunities for women Sustainable Living. We continue to engage with cross industry and multi stakeholder initiatives such as the World Economic Forum, New Vision for Agriculture and the UN Global Compact. We have aligned with the UN Secretary Generals High Level Panel on Womens Economic Empowerment, participating in working groups focused on tackling adverse norms and changing business culture. We also strongly support the World Economic Forums System Initiative on Gender, Education, and Work, which aims to help leaders understand the current state of gender parity and develop mechanisms to close gender gaps. In 2. 01. 5, we signed the Girl Declaration, and in 2. Womens Empowerment Principles a collaboration between the UN Global Compact and UN Women. We are one of ten founding members of UN Womens Private Sector Leadership Advisory Council to advance womens rights and empowerment, launched in June 2. In 2. 01. 4, we committed to UN Womens He. For. She movement, which aims to achieve gender equality by 2. In 2. 01. 5, we supported its IMPACT 1. Eco-Efficiency The Business Link To Sustainable Development Pdf' title='Eco-Efficiency The Business Link To Sustainable Development Pdf' />CEO Paul Polman became an IMPACT Champion. There is no single international journal at the moment that deals with the problem of performance of products, systems and services in its totality as the. Hundreds of green eco tips for creating a sustainable lifestyle including how to reduce, reuse, recycle, conserve energy and water, buy eco gifts and moreThe purpose of EcoEfficiency Analysis is to harmonize economy and ecology. This involves carrying out an overall study of alternative solutions to include a total. Eco-Efficiency The Business Link To Sustainable Development Pdf' title='Eco-Efficiency The Business Link To Sustainable Development Pdf' />Eco efficiency Wikipedia. Over the years, as countries and regions around the world began to develop, it slowly became evident that industrialization and economic growth come hand in hand with environmental degradation. Eco Efficiency has been proposed as one of the main tools to promote a transformation from unsustainable development to one of sustainable development. It is based on the concept of creating more goods and services while using fewer resources and creating less waste and pollution. It is measured as the ratio between the added value of what has been produced e. GDP and the added environment impacts of the product or service e. S0. 2 emissions. 2 The term was coined by the World Business Council for Sustainable Development WBCSD in its 1. Changing Course, and at the 1. Tomtom Pocket Pc Mio 168. Earth Summit, eco efficiency was endorsed as a new business concept and means for companies to implement Agenda 2. Ergo the term has become synonymous with a management philosophy geared towards sustainability, combining ecological and economic efficiency. HistoryeditAlthough eco efficiency is a rather new method, the idea is not. In the early 1. 97. Paul R. Ehrlich and John Holdren developed the lettering formula I PAT to describe the impact of human activity on the environment. Furthermore, the concept of eco efficiency was first described by Mc. Intyre and Thornton in 1. Stephan Schmidheiny in Changing Course. Schmidheiny set out to change the perception of industry as being part of the problem of environmental degradation to the reality of its becoming parta key partof the solution for sustainability and global development. The major drivers in the early phase of eco efficiencys development were the forward looking managers and thinkers in 3. M and Dow. 6 It was their involvement which catapulted eco efficiency from a brilliant idea to a workable concept. The results of the WBCSDs work creating the linkage between environmental performance and the bottom line was published in 1. Environmental Performance and Shareholder Value. MethodseditAccording to the WBCSD definition, eco efficiency is achieved through the delivery of competitively priced goods and services that satisfy human needs and bring quality of life while progressively reducing environmental impacts of goods and resource intensity throughout the entire life cycle to a level at least in line with the Earths estimated carrying capacity. It works by implementing 4 main types of ratios. The first two are environmental productivity and its inverse, environmental intensity of production, referring to the realm of production. The second pair, environmental improvement cost and its inverse, environmental cost effectiveness, are defined from an environmental improvements measures point of view. The ratios may be applied to any unit comprising economic activities because such activities always relate to cost and value, and having some physical substrate, always influence the environment. Furthermore, there are two different levels upon which to orchestrate the ratios micro and macro. There are three different methods to determine eco efficiency at the micro level. First, incremental eco efficiency, which specifies the effects of the total value of a product system or sector and its total concomitant environmental effects. Second, an analysis method nicknamed win win, which gives a comparison between a historical reference situation and potentially new situations based on the use of new technologies. It should be noted that the win win micro method is limited because it cannot give a concrete answer on the question of whether it improves overall environmental performance. And the third is difference eco efficiency, which is similar to the win win variant, but removes all irrelevant alternatives to heighten potential for optimal technologies while comparing two alternatives. Now the macro level is much less defined and has shown less accurate results. However, the ultimate aim of eco efficiency analysis is to help move micro level decision making into macro level optimality. The main goal in years to come is to create headline indicators to carry out macro level analysis at a countryworld scale. There are two life cycle assessment LCA based calculation systems on eco efficiency the Analysis Method of BASF, and the method of the Eco costs value ratio of the Delft University of Technology. The reduction in ecological impacts translates into an increase in resource productivity, which in turn can create a competitive advantage. According to the WBCSD, critical aspects of eco efficiency are 69A reduction in the material intensity of goods or services A reduction in the energy intensity of goods or services Reduced dispersion of toxic materials Improved recyclability Maximum use of renewable resources Greater durability of products Increased service intensity of goods and services. Strategies that have been linked to eco efficiency include Factor 4 and Factor 1. According to Boulanger,1. Confidence in technological innovation as the main solution to un sustainability Reliance on business as the principal actor of transformation. The emphasis is on firms designing new products, shifting to new production processes, and investing in R D, etc., more than on the retailer or the consumer, let alone the citizen. Trust in markets if they are functioning well Growthphilia there is nothing wrong with growth as such. The view that improvements in eco efficiency are sufficient for achieving sustainability has been challenged by Huesemann and Huesemann,1. Moreover, with cradle to cradle, growth is conducive to sustainability per se. This broader concept is called Sustainable Production and Consumption SPC. This concept involves changes in production and consumption patterns that lead to sustainable use of natural resources 8 business has taken a key role in accelerating the use of this concept because businesses both consume and produce. Eco efficiency is routinely a concept used because it combines performance along two of the three axes of sustainable development,4 making it easier for academics and leading thinkers to tease out the associated social issues. ExampleseditFurthermore, eco efficiency is also a very useful tool because it can adapt and flex to be fit different sizes of companies, while also maintaining relevance with the larger scale of government and national policies. For example, larger national players such as the Organisation for Economic Co operation and Development OECD 2. European Commission EU 2. European Environment Agency EEA and the National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy NRTEE have all recognized that eco efficiency is a practical approach that businesses should adopt in setting and achieving their environmental performance objectives. Spanish Gamefowl Sale more. It has been proven to heighten market values for firms,71. It does this by changing industrial processes, creating new products and changing and influencing markets with new ideas and with new rules. More people aim to get more value for their money in the market, while also enjoying a better environment.