Seminar: No country is an island

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SUSTAINABILITY

Published: 20/09/2011 at 02:41 AM
Newspaper section: Business

With the world's natural resources rapidly depleting and the environment becoming more degraded, businesses can no longer operate in isolation if they want to ensure sustainable development, experts told the "Thailand Sustainable Development Symposium 2011" hosted by the Siam Cement Group yesterday.

"The private sector has a major role to play as a solutions provider, but governments are also needed to provide the right policy framework for sustainable development to take root," Bjorn Stigson, president of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, told the forum.

"Private-public partnerships need to be formed in order to compete in a world with limited resources."

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Discussion 1 : 20/09/2011 at 12:23 PM1
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Cement industry gets it's primary raw ingredient from limestone.
It had levelled several limestone mountains/hills over the years.
Cement manufacturing itself is a polluting and energy intensive operation.

There's nothing 'green' or 'sustainable' about any of it.
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