I hail Syda Bbumba for her vision
EDITOR—I wish to hail the finance minister, Syda Bbumba, for explicitly linking environmental sustainability and business well-being. We do not have many people in Government who grasp this link and can communicate sustainability to the business community as ably as she has.
EDITOR—I wish to hail the finance minister, Syda Bbumba, for explicitly linking environmental sustainability and business well-being. We do not have many people in Government who grasp this link and can communicate sustainability to the business community as ably as she has.
I think being finance minister, she has learnt that we are sinking billions of shillings into below-capacity performing businesses because they are operating in an environmental void.
I suggest that every business entity should, as a matter of course, show not only how it intends to ensure environmental sustainability but also its sustainability roadmap before its operations are approved.
This would be a critical strategy in social corporate responsibility.
Besides, schools or institutions that instruct our people in business administration and management, or even project management, should include in their curricula courses on sustainability science and practice and environmental sustainability.
Yes, there can be no business sustainability without environmental sustainability. Because in Uganda we spend so much energy, money and time investing in things rather than people, nature and the environment, we are succeeding more in acting as agents of environmental destruction.
We can never have sustainable democracy without environmental sustainability. In pursuit of socio-political stability, we shall always erroneously invest in more and more militarization of our people and environment.
The result is more and more chaos in the environment and hence environmental collapse and decay. Business can contribute immensely to socio-political sustainability and democracy by rethinking investment choices.
Investing more in people, nature and environment is the answer. However, this may not be if politicians, who are the decision-makers, continue to regard environment as “somethingâ€, yet environment lives!
Oweyegha-Afunaduula
Programme Manager
Sustainability School
National Association of Professional Environmentalists
I think being finance minister, she has learnt that we are sinking billions of shillings into below-capacity performing businesses because they are operating in an environmental void.
I suggest that every business entity should, as a matter of course, show not only how it intends to ensure environmental sustainability but also its sustainability roadmap before its operations are approved.
This would be a critical strategy in social corporate responsibility.
Besides, schools or institutions that instruct our people in business administration and management, or even project management, should include in their curricula courses on sustainability science and practice and environmental sustainability.
Yes, there can be no business sustainability without environmental sustainability. Because in Uganda we spend so much energy, money and time investing in things rather than people, nature and the environment, we are succeeding more in acting as agents of environmental destruction.
We can never have sustainable democracy without environmental sustainability. In pursuit of socio-political stability, we shall always erroneously invest in more and more militarization of our people and environment.
The result is more and more chaos in the environment and hence environmental collapse and decay. Business can contribute immensely to socio-political sustainability and democracy by rethinking investment choices.
Investing more in people, nature and environment is the answer. However, this may not be if politicians, who are the decision-makers, continue to regard environment as “somethingâ€, yet environment lives!
Oweyegha-Afunaduula
Programme Manager
Sustainability School
National Association of Professional Environmentalists