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What’s
Next for
Sustainable
Business
Global Webinar
#Trends2019
London | New York | San Francisco SustainAbility.com
Introduction
SustainAbility is a think tank and
strategy consultancy working to inspire
transformative business leadership on
the sustainability agenda.
Mark Lee
Executive Director
#Trends2019
Speakers & Panelists
Mark Lee Bron York Bernice Lee Diana Liverman Joanna Yarrow
Executive Director, Analyst, ED, Hoffmann Centre Professor at University Head of Sustainable &
SustainAbility SustainAbility for Sustainable of Arizona, Lead Healthy Living, IKEA
Resource Economy, author of the IPCC Group
Chatham House 1.5ºC Report
#Trends2019
Agenda
1. About the Report
2. Trends to Watch in 2019
3. Panel Discussion
4. Audience Q&A
#Trends2019
About the Report
What’s Next for
Sustainable Business?
SustainAbility Trends 2019
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#Trends2019
Signals to Watch in 2019
Climate Crisis Citizen Power Security Threats Saving Ecosystems New Leadership
Healthcare &
Food & Agriculture Technology Energy & Utilities Financial Services
Pharma
#Trends2019
Climate Crisis
The opportunity to prevent global warming rising beyond 2C is
diminishing.
• Global greenhouse gas emissions rose by 2.7% in 2018, reaching
an all-time high
• The number of extreme climate-related disasters, like droughts
and floods, has doubled since the 1990s. To have a chance of limiting
warming to 1.5C, greenhouse
• Climate impacts highlight the urgent need for companies to gas emissions must be cut in
increase the resilience of their supply chains and direct half by 2030 and be net zero by
operations 2050.
- Diana Liverman, University of Arizona,
lead author for the IPCC 1.5C report
#Trends2019
Citizen Power
Engaged citizens, joined by Gen Z teens, are demanding action on
social and environmental challenges.
• 1 in 5 Americans have taken part in a political protest or rally
A majority of global consumers
over the last two years are concerned about climate
change but only a handful of
• Youth sent a record-breaking message to global leaders at these feel empowered to take
COP24 demanding bolder action to tackle climate change action in their own lives. Global
companies, like IKEA, have an
• More than 60% of global citizens expect companies to take important role to play in
action on sustainability, transparency and fair employment inspiring and supporting more
practices people to take action.
- Pia Heidenmark Cook, Chief
Sustainability Officer, IKEA Group
#Trends2019
Security Threats
International trade tensions, climate impacts and cyberwarfare are
impacting global security and the sustainability agenda.
• The World Economic Forum identified cybersecurity breaches as
one of the greatest and most likely risks to humanity
Countries need to work
together to tackle challenges
• Trade tensions could reduce international growth by around that extend beyond their own
0.5% by 2020, the IMF reports borders. Cooperative efforts are
also essential for enhancing
• The World Bank predicts that over 140 million people will be cybersecurity, tackling
displaced by climate change by 2050 corruption, and mitigating and
coping with climate change.
- International Monetary Fund, World
Economic Outlook 2018
#Trends2019
Saving Ecosystems
Momentum grows to tackle plastic waste as our land and marine
ecosystems face extraordinary threats.
• Species are disappearing 1,000 times faster than their natural
rate of extinction
• Plastic waste is seeing strong action in Asia, including India
setting a goal to eliminate single use plastic by 2022
• A Global Commitment to eliminate plastic waste at source has
Earth is losing biodiversity at
been signed by 250+ organisations, representing 20% of global
a rate seen only during mass
plastic packaging
extinctions.
- Living Planet Report, WWF
#Trends2019New Leadership
Global governments are enduring an ongoing crisis of trust, but
cities, regions and business are stepping up leadership.
• Across major European powers, the US, Canada, Russia, Australia
and Latin America, trust in national governments is low
With several governments
• 27 global cities, including London, New York, Sydney and Rome dialling back from global
have reduced their emissions for the last 5 years commitments and reducing
environmental protection, we
need - and are seeing - the non
• Over 500 hundred companies have now committed to science
state actors step up to the
based GHG emissions targets challenge. We need a New Deal
for nature and people.
- Kavita Prakash-Mani, WWF
#Trends2019Panel Discussion
Mark Lee Bron York Bernice Lee Diana Liverman Joanna Yarrow
Executive Director, Analyst, ED, Hoffmann Centre Professor at University Head of Sustainable &
SustainAbility SustainAbility for Sustainable of Arizona, Lead Healthy Living, IKEA
Resource Economy, author of the IPCC Group
Chatham House 1.5ºC Report
#Trends2019Audience Q&A
#Trends2019Thank You sustainability.com info@sustainability.com UK: +44 (0)20 7269 6900 US: +1 510 982 5003
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