BSR Insight | Business Leadership Needed for Sustainable Water Solutions
Speaking last week at a conference on worldwide industrial and urban challenges for sustainable water management, Professor Jeffrey Sachs, director of Columbia University's Earth Institute, emphasized the need for business to work with scientists and civil society to find solutions for the world's global water challenges.
"Our best hope [for finding sustainable water solutions] is in company leadership. … We need the companies—not in Washington, for the moment—to work with scientists and leading civil society organizations to forge the kind of solutions and understanding of what can be done. Together, they can create a systems-based, operational-based, and managerial-based approach that then can be taken to politicians."
—Professor Jeffrey Sachs, Director of the Earth Institute, Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development, and Professor of Health Policy and Management, Columbia University (November 4, 2009)
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