Guest Blog by Katherine Teh-White : Driving sustainable development innovation
Katherine Teh-White @ktehwhite "Sustainable innovation that hasn't earned societal trust by the time it's available will be meaningless in this consumer era. We need sustainable innovation that has a social licence." We now know that our consumption of resources is exceeding planetary limits with devastating consequences. Only collective, radical action from civil society, governments and corporations will achieve the sustainable development we so urgently need. The Sustainable Development Goals , ratified by 193 countries in September 2015, offer us both a vision and a practical roadmap for how to get there. But achieving these goals will require deep disruption to our current business models. The widening gap between the level of responsibility for sustainable development that society expects from corporations and their actual performance makes a business-as-usual approach an increasingly risky option. Inaction now runs counter to the interests of all p...