Swiss School

Sustainability Management School

• SUMAS, innovative business school in Gland, Switzerland.
• It's established in the IUCN (International Union for the Conservation of Nature)
• SUMAS brings scientific knowledge for sustanaibility and business management together.
• SUMAS offers different innovative subjects form different disciplines to build up future leaders that will be able to solve complex issues.
• Students that leave SUMAS go away with a great understanding of sustainability and how to apply it to life and everyday work.
• SUMAS is the only business school in Europe that offers both bachelors in the masters of Business Administration and Sustainability Management.
• Academic programs at this school are characterized by excellence and quality of content.
• Switzerland is said to be a wonderful place to live, it safe and it offers several recreational activities and it very well located at the center of Europe.

Case Study

• Transport, buildings, food and drinks account for 80% of environmental impacts including wastes and CO2 emissions.
• The ecological footprint helps you measure accurately the damage the world is going through.
• The ecological footprint measures surface area needed to produce the resources we consume in a daily basis and  to absorb the waste these same resources produce.
• If by 2050 we don't change our way of producing and consuming, the Earth's surface won't be enough to absorb the wastes and CO2 production.
• The European Commission wants to start a major action plan due to the urgency of the situation.
• European ecolabels provide a guarantee for the sustainability of the environment.

An Inconvenient Truth

• The hottest year in the last 15 years is 2005.
• We are causing global warming, glaciers and snows are melting rapidly.
• The huge temperature increment all over the world is causing stronger storms.
• The Arctic is experiencing faster melting and if it continues like that the worldwide sea level can go up to 25ft. 

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Arizona State University: Graduation Ceremony

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Activity: Unilever Sustainable Consumption Practices

 Since 2010, Unilever has been committed to ten year sustainable plan: Unilever Sustainable Living Plan. They are not only aiming for being more responsible on the company's operations but also how their consumers use their products. Their plan is divided into three main categories: Improving health and well-being, reducing environmental impact and enhancing livelihoods. They have a total of seven goals.

For improving health and well-being they have two goals: health & hygiene and improving nutrition . Unilever wants to assure the hygiene habits and safe drinking water for over a billion people. By doing this, they can reduce life-threatening diseases. As for improving nutrition, the company is constantly improving the taste and the quality of their products meeting the highest nutritional standards.
For reducing environmental impact they have three goals: greenhouse gases, water and waste. These basically consist on reducing the production of these three by consumers. Reducing the greenhouse gases produced in manufacturing and from washing clothes. Reducing water use in laundry and manufacturing process. Recycling packaging, reducing manufacturing and office waste.
Finally, to enhance livelihoods, meaning farmers, they have two goals: sustainable sourcing and better livelihoods. They are committed to supporting farmers and gradually using 100% of all raw materials sustainably. They'll support small-scale distributors and farmers to assure sustainability of the sources.