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Transitioning to a Greener Society
Overview Transitioning to a 'greener' society should be an obvious priority for leadership of the economy and society, but it isn't. Why not? 
Open a short Burgess Paper 'Transitioning to a 'Greener' Society ... Overview' Open a short Greener Gateway flyer on Carbon Asset Management Open Greener Gateway ... The Efficiency Toolbox slidedeck | ||
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Transitioning to a 'greener' society should be an obvious priority for leadership of the economy and society, but it isn't. Why not? The answer is the lack of relevant meaningful metrics.
The main theme of the TrueValueMetrics (TVM) initiative is that metrics are important. However, the metrics that are dominating the modern economy are the terrible trio of money profit performance, stock prices and GDP growth. These have served us well in the past ... giving incentive to use business efficiency to help satisfy shortages in goods and services for society. So far so good. But when society has its needs satisfied, more and more is not better. It is just plain wrong to ignore all the important metrics of the so-called 'economic externalities' together with impact on society of business efficiency. Supporters of the terrible trio of modern metrics have also got to explain how in a world of production surplus, there are still billions who lack for basic needs and are struggling with the sort of deprivation that should have been banished long ago. TVM sees the need for comprehensive metrics that include both money profit performance and all the impact metrics that go into society and result in changes to quality of life for people living today, while taking into consideration the impact on future generations. Many experts are working on different part of the metrics that are needed ... TVM complements these efforts, many of which are further advanced for wide deployment than TVM. The Carbon Asset Management (CAM) tool of the Greener Gateway is an example of the meaningful metrics needed for a rapid transition to a greener society. The carbon cycle is complex ... as are all natural systems ... but they are also very important. The Greener Gateway Carbon Asset Management software makes it possible for a company to address all the issues related to carbon management in the organization through one comprehensive package. The software has been designed to help companies meet the reporting requirements related to carbon now required under UK law for all companies whose stocks trade in the UK. The rules apply to operations that are subsidiary units of quoted UK companies. Open Greener Gateway ... The Efficiency Toolbox slidedeck (also above)
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