Education and collaboration key to sustainable change
Education and collaboration key to sustainable change
David Clark is Sustainability VP at Amcor , an American-Australian global packaging company .
David leads Amcor ’ s global sustainability agenda . He works closely with the global packaging company ’ s research-and-development and innovation functions to integrate sustainable design and social responsibility into Amcor ’ s product development and innovation processes .
David holds a B . S in Physics from the University of Michigan and an MBA from Pepperdine University .
by 2025 . We also pledged that we ' re going to work together to increase the amount of material that can be collected . So , at the beginning of 2018 , this was a pledge that was made by a small number of companies .
“ Companies signed up to the Global Commitment account for more than 20 % of the world ’ s plastic packaging , so we ' ve created a similar level of alignment that we ' re seeing with science-based targets around packaging .”
He added : “ The notion of collaboration and education that has been changing behaviours around climate change is also now happening around plastics and packaging waste , and this is leading to more investment in the infrastructure we need to make this happen .”
Educating the next generation of leaders For a corporation grappling with how to operationalise ESG , the priority should be building in the needs of – and extending education opportunities to – the communities that its operations impact . “ A workforce that understands and buys into an organisation ’ s ESG strategy is likely to pass on knowledge to their families ,” says Hilson .
Aligning ESG strategies with public sector initiatives may create economic opportunities for businesses , with the lessons learned providing invaluable material for teaching in schools . “ By working directly with academics , businesses may create further opportunities for up-andcoming graduates to accumulate practical knowledge on ESG , which can then be applied beyond their university education .”
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