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This chapter explores how organizations can address various sustainability challenges including climate change, human and labor rights, and sustain the global commons. As no business can address these systemic challenges alone, a particular focus lies in how multiple stakeholders collaborate to create novel governance solutions, in the transition to a net-zero economy.
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G20/OECD Principles of Corporate Governance. OECD Publishing, 2015. Available at 7 https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/governance/g20-oecd-principles-of-corporate-governance-2015_9789264236882-en, accessed on December 30, 2022.
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In 1983 was created by the UN General Assembly, the World Commission on Environment and Development – CMMAD, that was coordinated by Gro Harlem Brundtland, then Prime Minister of Norway and Mansour Khalid, hence the final name of the document, after an evaluation of the 10 years of the Stockholm Conference, with the aim of promoting audiences around the world and producing a formal outcome of the discussions. The work of this Commission in 1987, the document Our Common Future (or, as is well known, Brundtland Report, presented a new look at sustainable development. Available at: 7 https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/content/documents/5987our-common-future.pdf, accessed on 26 November 2022.
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See 7 https://sustainablesystemsinc.net/economic-development/three-forms-of-capital, accessed on November 14, 2022.
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Sapiro, A. (2024). Corporate Governance and Business Ethics. In: Strategic Management. Classroom Companion: Business. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-55669-2_4
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