Abstract
Accelerating the adoption of more sustainable solutions is at the crux of avoiding a complete climate catastrophe. Every nation, industry, business, and individual can improve their sustainability performance. The issue of willingness, perceived and real costs or not knowing how to start may be causal. In this article, methods are given about how adopt sustainability performance improvements impacting respective aggregated adoptions. The objectives surrounding sustainability can be boiled down to three general improvement outcomes: economic/financial, social, and ecological. This article focuses on ecological improvements with emphasis on the human and financial cost avoidance of catastrophic climate change. These methods can be used for social and financial performance by including new data.
Publisher
Ukrainian-American Concordia University
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