It is likely that in the foreseeable future, sustainability will continue to get some attention in corporations, but it will not be a major focus or a top priority, and as a result corporations will not have a more positive social and environmental impact.
Because of the widespread need for adaptation measures across all sectors and industries for the foreseeable future, it is important that they be designed and implemented using sustainability principles and practices.
Human and natural forces are rapidly modifying the global distribution and structure of terrestrial ecosystems on which all of life depends, altering the global carbon cycle, affecting our climate now and for the foreseeable future, causing steep reductions in species diversity, and endangering Earth's sustainability.
In another study commissioned by the Dutch government in 2006 to evaluate the sustainability of Brazilian bioethanol concluded that there is sufficient water to supply all foreseeable long-term water requirements for sugarcane and ethanol production.
A study commissioned by the Dutch government in 2006 to evaluate the sustainability of Brazilian bioethanol concluded that there is sufficient water to supply all foreseeable long-term water requirements for sugarcane and ethanol production.
For health programmes, sustainability can be regarded as 'the ability … to function effectively, for the foreseeable future, with high treatment coverage, integrated into available health care services, with strong community ownership, using resources mobilized by the community and government' (APFO and WHO, 2004).
Steve Leffin, the director of global sustainability at shipping giant UPS, admits that the use of oil is unavoidable for the foreseeable future.
While some firms, like B9 Shipping and Cargill, have been experimenting with sails attached to the decks of cargo ships to make the most of following winds, Jacob Sterling, head of sustainability at Maersk, says these "won't be a solution for container shipping in the foreseeable future - among other things because we need the deck space to stack containers".
This is perplexing, given the fact that policymakers are trying to find ways to bring financial sustainability to a Medicare program that is projected to see rapidly escalating costs into the foreseeable future, in large part due to a rising senior population beset with unacceptably high rates of chronic illnesses like diabetes and heart disease.
Sustainability may apply to financial aspects, for example, are funds for continuing the measures over the foreseeable future assured?
The reaction was foreseeable.
