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Financial Viability versus Financial Sustainability: Understanding the Distinction

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Rethinking Financial Sustainability: From Viability to Value Creation The language of ‘sustainability’ in business is notoriously slippery. For some, it remains a byword for financial viability—a shorthand for steady profits and operational endurance. For an increasing number of stakeholders, however, financial sustainability means something richer, more nuanced, and for companies wishing to survive the coming …

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Eliminating Mercury and Cyanide: The Future of Responsible Gold Recovery

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A new gold extraction technology is poised to deliver significant sustainability benefits for the gold mining sector, particularly in regions where environmental and health impacts from traditional extraction methods remain a critical concern. This innovative process, described recently in Nature Sustainability, eliminates the need for highly toxic chemicals such as cyanide and mercury, which are …

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What the Stoics Can Teach Us About Sustainable Development

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The modern sustainable development movement suffers from a peculiar blindness: it focuses obsessively on technical solutions while ignoring the philosophical foundations that might actually make those solutions work. Consider the Stoics, who developed one of history’s most sophisticated frameworks for thinking about human flourishing within natural constraints. Their insights remain remarkably relevant for our current …

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The lithium dilemma: How to power the green revolution without ruining the planet

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Lithium is a vital ingredient for the batteries that run electric vehicles and store renewable energy. As the world shifts away from fossil fuels, the demand for lithium is soaring. But extracting and processing the metal comes at a high environmental and social cost, especially in South America’s Lithium Triangle, where most of the world’s …

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We have just had three of the hottest months on record: how is the global average temperature calculated?

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If you have been following the news lately, you might have noticed that many regions around the world have experienced extreme heat waves and record-breaking temperatures. A report from the United Nations World Meteorological Organization (WMO) found that Earth just experienced its hottest series of three months in a row from June to August 2023. …

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