Founder and director Thomas Rau regularly speaks about sustainability and the value economy at events around the world and actively participates in initiatives that lead us to a viable way of living. In 2008, he founded the
Oneplanetarchitecture Institute, an organisation stimulating interdisciplinary co-operationon sustainable developments. Thomas Rau’s most recent initiative is Turntoo, a platform reversing the traditional concept of product ownership and promoting consumption services on basis of performance agreements.
Africa is rising and is becoming the next centre for growth. 11 African countries are growing faster than most in Asia and are poised for 10% or higher annual economic growth rate. Will Asia need to worry about its decline or will Asian investors benefit from African growth?
In Switzerland, as in many European countries, like in Japan and other Asian countries, the next two decades require major changes in pension fund investment policies in order to cope with a bleak and "unsustainable" outlook.
Nobody is agains "sustainability". However, "doing good" should be also be "done well". Here lies the real challenge. The ESG or sustainability issue is more than a fad for the Swiss Board of Directors
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