SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS AND INNOVATION1
Answer to Question 1:
Professor Jeffrey D. Sachs identifies that with technological revolution the world has also
witnessed considerable change it its environmental functioning which has turned more complex
and turning the crisis more severe. The very need of this hour is to understand the concept of
Sustainable development to help the population align their personal growth with the
environmental concerns and bring in a parity between both (Eskerod and Huemann, M2013).
The key factors that affect the implementation and success of sustainable developmental
measure in a nation, which are:
 Economic
 Social
 Natural environment
 Political governance system.
The next part of the video move son to analyze what are exactly the threating issues that
human development has brought in with its lack of proper awareness like excess use of non-
biodegradable sources, burning of fossil fuels which in turn has led to major environmental
crisis like Global Warming, Ocean Acidification, major loss of biodiversity, Human induced
Climate change and many more (Living Within Limits, 2019). These have been later recognized
as planetary boundaries which is a major milestone which finally led to the implementation of
more strategic response system like The Paris Agreement and the 2030 Sustainable
developmental Goals by UNESCO (Holden, et al .2017).

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Answer to Question 1: Professor Jeffrey Sachs

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