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Wel\u00adcome to the first post in our sus\u00adtain\u00adabil\u00adi\u00adty blog series where we describe our road towards sus\u00adtain\u00adabil\u00adi\u00adty. This blog series is to show\u00adcase how we inte\u00adgrate dif\u00adfer\u00adent cor\u00adpo\u00adrate respon\u00adsi\u00adbil\u00adi\u00adty and sus\u00adtain\u00adabil\u00adi\u00adty themes into our busi\u00adness: both on the com\u00adpa\u00adny lev\u00adel but also with our part\u00adners and clients.<\/span><\/p>\n Let\u2019s begin with a small intro\u00adduc\u00adtion into the world of sus\u00adtain\u00adabil\u00adi\u00adty. The inspi\u00adra\u00adtion for the title of this blog series is the report \u201cOur Com\u00admon Future\u201d (1987) by Gro Harlem Brundt\u00adland, the for\u00admer Prime Min\u00adis\u00adter of Nor\u00adway. Her report defined the pur\u00adpose for sus\u00adtain\u00adable devel\u00adop\u00adment. Accord\u00ading to the def\u00adi\u00adn\u00adi\u00adtion, sus\u00adtain\u00adabil\u00adi\u00adty is the abil\u00adi\u00adty to meet the needs of cur\u00adrent gen\u00ader\u00ada\u00adtions with\u00adout sac\u00adri\u00adfic\u00ading the poten\u00adtial for future gen\u00ader\u00ada\u00adtions to meet their own needs. In oth\u00ader words, we should live so that we don\u2019t leave our plan\u00adet in worse shape than we found it in.<\/span><\/p>\n Many may have the per\u00adcep\u00adtion that sus\u00adtain\u00adabil\u00adi\u00adty is all about envi\u00adron\u00admen\u00adtal pro\u00adtec\u00adtion and con\u00adser\u00adva\u00adtion. Sure, these aspects are impor\u00adtant, but sus\u00adtain\u00adabil\u00adi\u00adty is so much more. Sus\u00adtain\u00adabil\u00adi\u00adty can be com\u00adpared to a three-legged stool. One of the legs is our econ\u00ado\u00admy includ\u00ading, for instance, jobs and assets. The sec\u00adond leg is about social aspects in the world such as human rights and gen\u00ader\u00adal well being of cit\u00adi\u00adzens. Final\u00adly, we have the third leg, the envi\u00adron\u00adment. This leg con\u00adsists of themes such as envi\u00adron\u00admen\u00adtal health and the abil\u00adi\u00adty to sus\u00adtain decent liv\u00ading con\u00addi\u00adtions. If any of these legs were to break, the stool becomes unsta\u00adble and will fall. The same metaphor applies to our soci\u00adety. So, we are talk\u00ading about impor\u00adtant things.<\/span><\/p>\n Let\u2019s first answer the ques\u00adtion why. The sci\u00aden\u00adtif\u00adic com\u00admu\u00adni\u00adty has near\u00adly unan\u00adi\u00admous\u00adly claimed that cli\u00admate change will be one the largest safe\u00adty and secu\u00adri\u00adty threats for the world in the next decades to come. Humankind\u2019s indus\u00adtri\u00adal activ\u00adi\u00adty and con\u00adsump\u00adtion pat\u00adterns only accel\u00ader\u00adate the phe\u00adnom\u00ade\u00adnon. More\u00adover, chang\u00ading demo\u00adgraph\u00adics, glob\u00adal\u00adiza\u00adtion and urban\u00adiza\u00adtion will change our social struc\u00adtures. In this chang\u00ading social land\u00adscape, it is impor\u00adtant to make sure that every\u00adone has the chance to be edu\u00adcat\u00aded and real\u00adize their poten\u00adtial. We see that it is impor\u00adtant to use our exper\u00adtise to reach sus\u00adtain\u00adable out\u00adcomes together.<\/span><\/p>\n The pre\u00advi\u00adous\u00adly men\u00adtioned chal\u00adlenges also mean that every orga\u00adni\u00adza\u00adtion must take sus\u00adtain\u00adabil\u00adi\u00adty into account in all of their oper\u00ada\u00adtions. The man\u00adage\u00adment of brand image and stake\u00adhold\u00aders might pre\u00advi\u00adous\u00adly have been the main rea\u00adson for inte\u00adgrat\u00ading sus\u00adtain\u00adabil\u00adi\u00adty into busi\u00adness. Nev\u00ader\u00adthe\u00adless, I state that the busi\u00adness gains of adding sus\u00adtain\u00adabil\u00adi\u00adty into busi\u00adness oper\u00ada\u00adtions are remark\u00adable: sus\u00adtain\u00adable atti\u00adtude and actions will be reflect\u00aded as a bet\u00adter result in your bot\u00adtom line. The use of new tech\u00adnolo\u00adgies, such as Best Avail\u00adable Tech\u00adnolo\u00adgies, will decrease com\u00adpa\u00adnies\u2019 envi\u00adron\u00admen\u00adtal impacts and enhance social sur\u00adround\u00adings at work\u00adplace. Decreas\u00ading envi\u00adron\u00admen\u00adtal impacts will help com\u00adpa\u00adnies to opti\u00admize the usage of side prod\u00aducts of their pro\u00adduc\u00adtion and to min\u00adi\u00admize the waste. Bet\u00adter recy\u00adcling, sort\u00ading and re-pro\u00adcess\u00ading of mate\u00adri\u00adals enable sourc\u00ading from mate\u00adri\u00adals once already used, so the acquir\u00ading costs may decrease sig\u00adnif\u00adi\u00adcant\u00adly. The social inclu\u00adsion at work\u00adplace improves employ\u00adee well\u00adbe\u00ading and great\u00adly affects the pro\u00adduc\u00adtiv\u00adi\u00adty of the whole organization.<\/span><\/p>\n Because sus\u00adtain\u00adabil\u00adi\u00adty is so mul\u00adti\u00adfac\u00adeted, we can\u00adnot say that we have already mapped all the mile\u00adstones. There\u00adfore, we will rec\u00adog\u00adnize the themes where we can con\u00adtribute the most. This is called materiality.<\/span><\/p>\n Rec\u00adog\u00adniz\u00ading mate\u00adri\u00adal\u00adi\u00adty is impor\u00adtant because it will enable us to pri\u00ador\u00adi\u00adtize the areas that are most impor\u00adtant to our stake\u00adhold\u00aders. Dis\u00adcov\u00ader\u00ading mate\u00adri\u00adal\u00adi\u00adty is an under\u00adtak\u00ading that involves com\u00adpa\u00adny exec\u00adu\u00adtives, employ\u00adees, clients and oth\u00ader stake\u00adhold\u00ader groups. There\u00adfore, we will ask our stake\u00adhold\u00aders for their inputs on how we can devel\u00adop our and our clients\u2019 sus\u00adtain\u00adabil\u00adi\u00adty aspects.<\/span><\/p>\n I can\u00adnot ignore tech\u00adnol\u00ado\u00adgy as a dri\u00adver for sus\u00adtain\u00adabil\u00adi\u00adty. New tech\u00adnol\u00ado\u00adgy solu\u00adtions will rev\u00ado\u00adlu\u00adtion\u00adize the ways we con\u00adsume and com\u00admute dai\u00adly in near future. We feel that with our exper\u00adtise we can sup\u00adport our cus\u00adtomers in this change and accom\u00adplish solu\u00adtions for future tech\u00adnolo\u00adgies together.<\/span><\/p>\n In a few years, alter\u00adna\u00adtive renew\u00adable sources of ener\u00adgy and bio-based solu\u00adtions will become piv\u00adotal to sus\u00adtain\u00adably, enabling us to have the com\u00admodi\u00adties that we so need, for exam\u00adple elec\u00adtric\u00adi\u00adty and plas\u00adtic. The devel\u00adop\u00adment of arti\u00adfi\u00adcial intel\u00adli\u00adgence makes it pos\u00adsi\u00adble to cre\u00adate a new ser\u00advice econ\u00ado\u00admy. Autonomous cars work as an impres\u00adsive exam\u00adple of this, mak\u00ading it pos\u00adsi\u00adble to use them only when need\u00aded and replace many of our inef\u00adfi\u00adcient pri\u00advate vehicles.<\/span><\/p>\n Even though many of these exam\u00adples often heard sound futur\u00adis\u00adtic, arti\u00adfi\u00adcial intel\u00adli\u00adgence can ben\u00ade\u00adfit us in more sim\u00adpler sit\u00adu\u00ada\u00adtions. Our sev\u00ader\u00adal dai\u00adly process\u00ades and ser\u00advices will be trans\u00adformed with the use of AI. The only ques\u00adtion now is how rapid\u00adly we will take the first steps to uti\u00adlize arti\u00adfi\u00adcial intel\u00adli\u00adgence and start trans\u00adform\u00ading our process\u00ades to become more sustainable.<\/span><\/p>\n We have invest\u00aded heav\u00adi\u00adly in these new tech\u00adnolo\u00adgies and we are not afraid to grasp all new oppor\u00adtu\u00adni\u00adties to help our cus\u00adtomers with our new gen\u00ader\u00ada\u00adtion expertise.<\/span><\/p>\n In our next sus\u00adtain\u00adabil\u00adi\u00adty blog post, we will go through mate\u00adri\u00adal\u00adi\u00adty in greater detail and describe how it will be shown in our oper\u00ada\u00adtions. We will also dive deep\u00ader into the tech\u00adnol\u00ado\u00adgy solu\u00adtions and explore how we can pro\u00advide sus\u00adtain\u00adabil\u00adi\u00adty val\u00adue to our clients.<\/span><\/p>\nWhy do we at Islet empha\u00adsize sus\u00adtain\u00adabil\u00adi\u00adty in our oper\u00ada\u00adtions and how can we con\u00adtribute to this wor\u00adthy cause?<\/strong><\/h2>\n
Now, I can tell you how we will make our way towards more sus\u00adtain\u00adable avenues<\/strong><\/h2>\n