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The GDRC Programme on Sustainable Business

So what is the justification for business to be more sustainable? How can a case be made for sustainability?

GDRC's programme on Sustainable Business focuses on the ecosystem that is needed to promote sustainability in businesses. It takes its genesis from the ongoing paradigm shift from curative and remedial environmental solutions to preventive and management solutions, encompasing pollution prevention, LCA/material flows, industrial symbiosis, consumer education and related issues

Highlights
of GDRC
Research

Full list
of docs

Japan as a "Repeater" Economy: Implications for Sustainability Policy Analysis Series C-053.	Promotion of Waste Exchange Systems: Five Models from Bandung, Indonesia Case Study Series E-194.
Sustainable Development Goal #9: Implications and Actions for Business Sustainability Policy Analysis Series E-195.	Economic Instruments for Environmental Policy: Solving global environmental problems with local economic action Policy Analysis Series E-190.

GDRC Series on Japanese Business Sustainability

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Read GDRC's flagship magazine on Circular Economy [via Flipboard]:

Currently, GDRC is focussing on support services and programmes that local governments can implement to enable companies to be more sustainable (for example, by creating 'eco-towns'). It is doing this within the overall context of a circular economy.

Have a look at the planned publications under this programme

GDRC Research Resources

Documents & Reports

Programmes & Initiatives

Orgs. & Institutions

Repositories & Tools

Elsewhere
in GDRC

   ■ Disaster Management: A Role for the Private Sector
   ■ Environmental Impact Assessment
   ■ The FEWW Nexus: Food - Energy - Water - Waste
   ■ Microcredit: Finance for Microenterprises
   ■ Environmental Colours of Microfinance Theory and Practice
   ■ InfoPac on 3Rs - Reduce, Reuse and Recycle
   ■ Green Skills for Environmental Decision Making

This programme is a part of:

GDRC's Economy Sphere

GDRC's Sustainable Business Programme is a member of -
	The Association for Sustainable & Responsible Investment in Asia (ASrIA)

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GDRC endorses SDG #9

Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure

Businesses contributing to sustainable development is an important element of SDG #9: Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation

The starting points for businesses to contribute to sustainability are by promoting the Sustainable Development Goals. See GDRC's Sustainability Dashboard

View publications of this programme.