HOW COULD BUSINESSES PROMOTE ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSIBILITY?

Today, consumer behavior and Business investments are influencing/impacting various environmental and social spheres. Among the consequences are climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution that in turn adversely impact on the socio cultural set up vulnerability to poverty, diseases and cultural degradation. For this reason, environmentally-friendly practices must be adopted not only by environmental activists but also by Business practitioners such as farmers, business developers and owners, food processors and retailers etc. in order to formulate linkages that would provide a complex and multidimensional approach to addressing/ promoting sustainable development. While developing countries should not forget their vulnerability to effects of climate change, they should at the same time endeavor to develop in way that will not compromise the ability of future generations to meet their own needs hence environmental sustainability in Africa and other developing countries should take center stage in both social and economical policies. The less developed countries have been in a hurry to develop economically even at the expense of the environment, this is so in many cases due to political tenures and ruling governments wanting to stay in power, we have seen this in many instances .however, a new shape of business models should allow Businesses and entrepreneurs, project developers and contractor and investors to ecologically consider the impact of their development on the environment.