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Sustainable Development

Economic Growth · Environmental Protection · Social Equity

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The three pillars, or the triple bottom line, which John Elkington coined in 1994. In 2018 he issued a public recall of his own idea: it had become an accounting exercise, a way of balancing harm against profit rather than stopping it.

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