Public Lecture: When is a Company Environmentally Sustainable?

 

Speaker

Martin Marchman Andersen, University of Southern Denmark
 

 

The “Science-based targets” initiative downscales the Paris Agreement to corporate greenhouse gas emission targets based on different methods of sharing the greenhouse gas emission budget. But the question of how to share this budget is ultimately a moral question, a matter of distributive justice. We criticise existing methods of downscaling the Paris Agreement to the level of corporate sustainability and suggest a new definition of what it means for a company to be environmentally sustainable. Based on this new definition we suggest an approach as for how to downscale the Paris Agreement to the level of companies.

 

 

Martin Marchman Andersen, PhD, Associate Professor in philosophy and public health at the University of Southern Denmark. Besides various aspects of philosophy applied on medicine and public health, Martin is interested in quantification of sustainability. Some publications on this: Ryberg, M. W., Andersen, M. M., Owsianiak, M., & Hauschild, M. Z. (2020). Downscaling the Planetary Boundaries in absolute environmental sustainability assessments–a review. Journal of Cleaner Production, 123287. Frederiksen, C. S., & Andersen, M. M. (2020). Vinduespynt og Samfundssind: Når virksomheder (ikke) tager ansvar. Turbine.