SDG-7: Affordable and Clean Energy
The Brundtland Report “Our Common Future” in 1987 (World Commission on Environment and Development, 1987) set the tone for changing sustainability and sustainable development transitioned from being a scientific idea to a political vision. As politics and businesses are highly intertwined matters, business houses started pushing this concept down from their top management to the end of the corporate chain. Hedging is an important aspect of businesses to control future risk variables. Business houses with a vision found a safety net against future risks of the ill effects of unsustainable growth. Sustainability had finally arrived as this was now being driven from the corporate levels into the value chains as well as families through their employees. There is a sudden need to grow sustainably now without relying entirely on government policies and international conferences to provide direction. Greta Thunberg, a 16-year-old Swedish climate change activist op...