Profit powers purpose
Profit is not a bad word but the key to managing a sustainable future. Dr Anjani Ganase presented at the EurochamTT (European Business Chamber in Trinidad and Tobago), Sustainability Workshop in Tobago where feature speaker Mark Thomas shows us why profitability and sustainability go hand in hand. Mark is the Partnerships and Development Finance Officer in the United Nations Resident Coordinator Office for Trinidad and Tobago, Aruba, Curacao and Sint Maarten . At the UN, he coordinates partnerships between the United Nations and public, private and civil society sectors, and supports resource mobilization for accomplishment of the Sustainable Development Goals Let me start with two questions that bother me. Why is it that every time we talk about sustainability, business somehow ends up being blamed? And why is it that every time business hears that word, what it hears is: more cost, more rules, more headaches? From the outside, business is made to look like the villain—too ...