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Der Faktor Q : Qualifizierung als Voraussetzung einer zukunftsfähigen Unternehmensentwicklung
(2001)
Die Analphabeten des einundzwanzigsten Jahrhunderts werden nach Alvin Toffler diejenigen sein, die nicht lernen, verlernen und umlernen können. In kleinen und mittleren Unternehmen ist jedoch gerade der Faktor Qualifikation bzw. Lernen häufig eine zentrale Schwachstelle. Ausgehend von Projekterfahrungen werden Strategien zu ihrer Behebung vorgestellt.
During the UNCED conference in Rio de Janeiro 1992 unsustainable consumption and production patterns were identified as one of the key driving forces behind the unsustainable development of the world (Agenda 21, chapter 4). These consumption and production patterns are based on the European model of industrialisation, spread around the globe in the age of colonisation and brought to extremes by the upper-class of industrialised societies, in particular in the United States, but also in a number of countries in the South. Therefore, all states of the world share the task of developing sustainable consumption and production patterns, while particular responsibility rests with the industrialised nations of Europe, North America and Japan. They, and the thriving but small rich elite in the transition countries and in the South, form a global consumer society, with shared products, lifestyles and aspirations. As it is essential to support the transition towards sustainable development by providing the proper information in an operational manner, the UNCED conference has called for the development of suitable means of information, and in particular for the development of sustainability indicators applicable throughout the world (Agenda 21, chapter 40). The UNDESA set of indicators for changing consumption and production patterns offers helpful advice in this regard but still lacks the theoretical underpinning needed to consistently complete it by defining the few still missing indicators. This paper undertakes to suggest such a methodology based on the environmental space concept. It derives a set of science based indicators from this approach which are easily applicable in everyday life and analyses the environmental relevance of the consumption clusters chosen for analysis as well as the relevance of the phenomena characterised by the indicators suggested. As households are just one actor in the field of consumption, a qualitative assessment of influences is performed and the result depicting the key actors for each environmentally relevant consumption cluster is presented as an actor matrix.
This article provides a short account of the international climate negotiations that took place in Bonn from 16 to 27 July 2001. After the Sixth Conference of the Parties to the Framework Convention on Climate Change failed in November 2000, the Parties had decided to suspend the meeting. The ministers present at the resumed session successfully adopted the "Bonn Agreement to the Kyoto Protocol", a set of political compromises for the most contentious issues left open by the Kyoto Protocol. Although many details had been transferred to the Seventh Conference of the Parties, November 2001 in Marrakesh, Morocco, the Bonn Agreement already paved the way for ratification of the Kyoto Protocol and its entry into force. The Marrakesh Accord adopted on 10 November 2001 transforms, with a few exceptions, this political agreement into bindinglegal text.
Das Wuppertal Institut für Klima, Umwelt, Energie schlägt in Kooperation mit dem Freiburger Büro Ö-quadrat ein konkretes Verfahren vor, um Stromanbieter und ihre Unternehmensentwicklung anhand ökologischer, ökonomischer, sozialer und kultureller Kriterien einer nachhaltigen Entwicklung zu bewerten ("Versorger-Test"). Dabei wird der umfassende Anspruch verfolgt, - Verbraucher-Interessen gerecht zu werden, - die Transparenz der Angebote und Anbieter im liberalisierten Strommarkt zu erhöhen, - Stromkunden zum Stromwechsel zu positiv bewerteten Energieunternehmen und gleichzeitig - Stromanbieter zu einer nachhaltigen Unternehmensentwicklung zu animieren und - damit einen Beitrag zu einer nachhaltigen Entwicklung der Energiemärkte zu leisten. Somit greift der "Versorger-Test" die durch die Liberalisierung geschaffene Freiheit der Stromanbieter-Wahl auf. Er unterstützt die Konsumenten-Souveränität der Verbraucher. Gleichzeitig unterstützt er Energieunternehmen auf ihrem Weg zu einer nachhaltigen Entwicklung und ermöglicht ihnen, ihre ökologische Glaubwürdigkeit unter Beweis zu stellen und ihre Marktchancen entsprechend zu verbessern.