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Green Growth, Green Profit
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Green Growth, Green Profit

How Green Transformation Boosts Business

Palgrave Macmillan, 2011 plus...


Editorial Rating

8

Qualities

  • Innovative

Recommendation

Roland Berger Strategy Consultants produced this anthology, which likens the advent of green business to the Industrial Revolution. The comparison is apt. Just as transformative 19th-century innovations changed business, so, too, will green technologies alter industries, companies and societies for the environmental good. More important, as this series of essays explains, the green transformation is an opportunity for – not a threat to – businesses, if they can adapt to new imperatives. Despite the complexity of the subject matter – and an occasional editorial error – the book is surprisingly accessible to the lay reader, particularly given its effective charts and graphs. It offers on-the-ground perspectives from the countries and regions that are riding the green wave and from those that are just getting their feet wet. getAbstract finds this informative collection valuable to investors and executives who are leading the way to going green.

Take-Aways

  • The push toward sustainability in the 21st century will change business as much as the Industrial Revolution did in the 19th century.
  • The worldwide market for green business, totaling approximately €1.6 trillion ($2.1 trillion) at the end of 2010, may double by 2020.
  • “Four megatrends” – “demographics, climate change, urbanization” and “globalization” – drive green business.

About the Author

Roland Berger Strategy Consultants operates in 25 countries and serves businesses, financial institutions and governments.


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