Unsustainable Development: Its not God Given, its Man Given

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Unsustainable Development Its not God Given,
its Man Given
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• Why should we risk short term profits for the
  sake of sustainable development ? It has been
  working well for us, why wouldn't it work in the
  future?

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• Because the worlds expectations of solutions
  provided by the private sector are radically
  changing.Are we ready to listen to the new
  demands?

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• But, wait a minute !!!This is a global
  discoursethat is applied worldwide.So far we
  could be talking about anybody anywhere. Do you
  really know whom are we talking about ?

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• Development solutions are not one size fits
  all.When we talk about development in
  emerging economiesthis is how the problem looks

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Housing
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Villa 31, Buenos Aires

• 14 such slums and 40 settlements
• Villa population grown by 25 in 2 years,
  currently housing 7 of the citys population,
  estimated at 200,000 people

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Rocinha, Rio de Janeiro

• 750 such favelas in Rio de Janeiro, which is
  about 20 of the urban population
• Rocinha is estimated at 60,000 to 150,000 in
  habitants

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Transportation
Beijing
Cairo
Lagos
Mumbai
Lanzhou
Buenos Aires
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Santiago de Chile

• Air pollution is bad enough for the city to
  declare environmental pre-emergencies regularly,
  which means prohibiting hundreds of thousands of
  cars to drive and halting factory producing,
  resulting in serious economic losses
• In 1989 there were 14,000 public buses. Today
  there are 6,400.
• In 2007 air pollution was responsible for more
  than 100,000 years of life lost due to premature
  death or disability, and was the fourth leading
  health risk.

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Mexico City

• The average Mexico City commuter drives 4 hours
  per day!
• One of the most severe air pollution cases in the
  world

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Electricity, Water, and Sanitation
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El Alto, La Paz

• 200,000 Citizens still dont have access to water
• In 2005, revolt ensued.

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The World at Night
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In the emerging economies, sustainability is not
just climate change, windmills and solar
panelsbuta much larger challenge.
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So again, Are we ready to listen to the new
demands?Are we equipped to meet the
expectations of people in developing countries?
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We were trained to respond to the infrastructure
needs of a different market than the one we face
today.And the market requirements will become
even more demanding soon.
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Engineering consulting companies need to acquire
a new set of management skills to transform these
challenges into business opportunities.
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• Halcrow is doing just that

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Halcrows Sustainability Initiatives

• Stakeholder management
• Renewable energy workshops
• Carbon foot printing analysis
• Sustainability KPIs advice
• Sustainability performance assurance
• Green building
• Sustainability e-Learning Tool

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Halcrows Sustainability E-Learning Tool

• The objective of SeLT is to communicate the
  business case for sustainable development and
  corporate social responsibility (CSR) as widely
  as possible.
• Companies know that if sustainability is to be
  embedded in their organisations, their staff will
  need training. 
• It is designed to raise awareness and provide
  employees with a set of tools to integrate
  sustainable development to their every day
  working life.
• Its content a mixture of information, video
  clips and interactive sessions such as role plays
  and quizzes engages and educates the learner
  simultaneously.

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Sustainability E-Learning Tool

• web based
• self teaching
• discussion forums
• Chat rooms with world experts
• digital library of SD material

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Sustainability E-Learning Tool Main Sections

• Welcome
• Test yourself
• Your every day personal role and commitment
• Your reactions to real social dilemas
• Roles of business
• You and your business
• Business in the world
• Business Cases and e library

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Sustainability E-Learning Tool Main Benefits

• Improve companys competitivity
• Allow to seek new business opportunities
• Strengthen brand and public relations
• Improve client and market satisfaction
• Improve professional development, employee
  recruitment and retention

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• Unsustainable DevelopmentIts not God
  given, its Man given So lets get prepared
  to accept the challenge of providing
  sustainable development for the emerging world
  too.