Eco‐Efficiency and beyond: Towards the Sustainable Enterprise

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Introduction Jan-Dirk Seiler-Hausmann, Christa Liedtke and Ernst Ulrich von Weizsaecker 1. Thinking about sustainable production and services in a globalised world Ernst Ulrich von Weizsacker, Member of the German Parliament, former Chair of the Bundestag Select Committee on Globalisation 2. Promoting the life-cycle economy-time to act! Jacqueline Aloisi de Larderel, United Nations Environment Programme, Division of Technology, Industry and Economics, France 3. The next sources of innovation Claude Fussler, World Business Council for Sustainable Development, Switzerland 4. Sustainable politics Jan-Dirk Seiler-Hausmann, Wuppertal Institute, Germany 5. Germany's Sustainable Development Strategy Hans Martin Bury, Member of German Parliament German Minister of State for Europe 6. The German Council for Sustainable Development Volker Hauff, Chair of the German Council for Sustainable Development 7. Think-communicate-act. Econsense Forum for Sustainable Development: A German business initiative Jurgen Zech, former member of the Board of Gerling and spokesperson for econsense, Germany 8. Launching the ISS Sustainable Development Raymond van Ermen, European Partners for the Environment, Belgium 9. Sustainable business development Michael Kuhndt, Wuppertal Institute, Germany 10. Deloitte Sustainability Reporting Scorecard Markus Lehni, Deloitte & Touche, Global Environment and Sustainability Services, Switzerland 11. Sustainability management? Don't bother! Practical steps for bringing sustainability into core management practice Peter Zollinger, SustainAbility, UK 12. Sustainable accounting initiatives in Japan: pilot projects of material flow cost accounting Katsuhiko Kokubu, Kobe University, Japan Michiyasu Nakajima, Kansai University, Japan 13. The BASF eco-efficiency method as a sustainable decision-making tool Andreas Kicherer, BASF AG, Germany 14. Toward sustainable products and services Christa Liedtke, Wuppertal Institute, Germany 15. Climatex(R) Lifeguard(TM) upholstery fabrics: chronicle of a sustainable product redesign Albin Kalin, Rohner Textil AG, Switzerland, Alain Riviere and Ralf Ketelhut, EPEA Internationale Umweltforschung GmbH, Germany, Michael Braungart, EPEA Internationale Umweltforschung GmbH, Germany, and McDonough Braungart Design Chemistry, LLC, USA 16. Eco-effective design of products and production systems: eight theses on methodological and institutional prerequisites Michael Braungart, EPEA Internationale Umweltforschung GmbH, Germany and McDonough Braungart Design Chemistry, LLC, USA, and Alain Riviere and Ralf Ketelhut, EPEA Internationale Umweltforschung GmbH, Germany 17. Efforts in the electronics industry toward creating a recycling-based society Nobuhisa Itoh, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd, Japan 18. Ten years of sustainability at Henkel: innovative products as basis for long-term business success Rainer Rauberger and Michaela Raupach, Henkel, Corporate Sustainability Management/Reporting and Stakeholder Dialogue, Germany 19. Toward sustainable banks and insurance companies Thomas Orbach and Timo Busch, Wuppertal Institute, Germany 20. The challenge of sustainability for financial institutions Paul Clements-Hunt, Head of Unit, UNEP Finance Initiatives, Switzerland 21. Sustainability: the new paradigm in value-based corporate management Hanns Michael Hoelz, Global Head of Sustainable Development, Deutsche Bank 22. Can pension funds drive sustainable development? Inge Schumacher, UBS Global Asset Management, Socially Responsible Investments, Switzerland