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cooperators of MASS-SPECC will realize and
better understand the value of integrating Why should
environment as a business concern
environment
to provide you with the practical and be in the coop
strategic steps on how environment can be agenda?
adopted as a cooperative agenda
FACT
As global warmingworsens,
so too its impacts.
Source: UNEP
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FACT
The world already lost
80% of its original forest 70%
forest
cover
FACT
18.3%
forest
The world lost half of its coastal
cover wetlands, mangroves & marshes
extinct
every decade
in the next 30
years
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Ecosystem Environmental
pressure degradation
as poor derives worsens
income and
the poverty cycle
sustenance
The idea of
COOPS as self-
self-help
organizations can be effective
planet
in adopting stewardship
is a strong
environment incentive
as a business agenda
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ACCESS TO FUNDING
COMPETITION
….the environment therefore is a serious
ETHICAL CONSIDERATION business agenda.
$
to members…..
not be a
choice of
but also in facilitating interface between one over the
microenterprises and the missing 3rd bottom-line: other
environment
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“There is no FACT
business to
be done on a
dead The threats of climate
planet”. change is the greatest
and widest ranging
David Brower, Executive Director- market failures
Sierra Club
ever seen
Stern Report
”Banks are not just caretakers of the financing projects that have a negative impact on the
nation’s wealth, they must also be environment “.
GREEN
• Cost consciousness among employees
Business Case for
Reputation/Image
• Attracting & retaining customers
• Attracting & retaining good employees
is the new
• Better recognition in society & public in general
Workplace Benefits
BLACK
• Proper facility management
• Accident-free and healthier workplace environment
Environmental/Ecological Gains
• Clean environmental services
• Access to natural resources
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Environmental Agenda in
appraisal & monitoring
Integration of
Our bottom-lines
Adoption of FSSI environmental policy
Economically Ecologically Socially
FSSI
Viable Sound Equitable
GREENING
the Micro Finance Sector
Environmental
Management
“Integrating Environmental Management in MFI Operation” Accounting (EMA)
Broad approaches
to mitigate
Some Actions Points….
COMMAND
environmental & CONTROL
impacts in
microenterprises • Development of
Reduction of
Ecological environmental policy
INCREASED
ECONOMIC
Footprints in • Formation of EM champions
LENDER
LIABILITY
INCENTIVES Office • Conduct of environmental
Operation impact assessment
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FACT Abetter
world is
possible,
and that is
all up to us
to make it
COOPERATIVES are a potent
happen!
force to make that collective
action and impact….
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