It was reported earlier this month that the city of Ghent, in Belgium, has declared a weekly ‘veggie’ day; council and elected officials will be served a vegetarian diet for one day a week in a move that it hopes will encourage the citizenry to do the same on the basis that meat production is more CO2 intensive than vegetable production, quoting the UN statistics that livestock produces 18% of global green house gases (including methane which is 23 times as warming as CO2).
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An article in The Economist last week (“A stress test for good intentions”) provides a ray of hope that big business is finally ‘getting it’; CSR initiatives are worthy of consideration on cost grounds… and there’s nothing wrong with that.
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It strikes me that now is the time to start thinking about how your company will (having survived) thrive after this ‘wheat and chaff’ show is over. I came across an article the other day that talked about climate change but referenced it in terms of economic climate change; now there’s food for thought.
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