It is promoted as a promising means of making economic processes and products more sustainable, with expected contributions to a range of policy aims.
However, when quarrying and recycling activities are considered as stand-alone processes, also the RA supply chain may not be as sustainable as expected, due to the high environmental loads associated to transportation, if high distances from the production to the use sites are involved.
A traditional sustainable brand expects that customers will laud and applaud it for its charitable giving and its actions on key environmental issues.
"We don't think this is sustainable and expect slowing spending growth going forward," Colin McGranahan, an analyst at Sanford C. Bernstein, wrote in a note to clients that reviewed numbers for November.
The socio-technical transition to more sustainable infrastructure is expected to include partial decentralisation based on local conditions.
The combination of the three previously mentioned actions, sustainable actions, is expected to have the most positive influence on a company's stock price.
The fabric of smart sustainable cities is expected to be, arguably, enveloped with an electronic skin, which can be sewed together and entrenched with even more advanced embedded measuring devices, information processing systems, and communication networks.
Later this year retailers and manufacturers across Europe who have joined the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil are expected to publish details of how they will create a network of certified sustainable plantations.
But here is another sweet nugget to chew on: The unusually large gap between the performance of the United States economy of those of its main peers, Europe and Japan, is proving more sustainable than many economists expected.
If the global downturn forces China to switch the mix of growth from exports to consumption, it would also help to make its future growth more sustainable.The government is expected to supply a fiscal stimulus to keep growth above 8%.
