Exploring the challenges and opportunities of the United Nations sustainable development goals: a dialogue between a climate scientist and management scholars

摘要

In mid-November 2017, while we were in Brussels preparing the presentation of our research paper at the ABIS Annual Colloquium, an important article which appeared in Le Monde caught our attention: "World Scientists' Warning to Humanity: A Second Notice". By reading the article further, we could realize that 25 years before, more than 1,700 independent scientists, including the majority of living Nobel laureates in the sciences, had already showed that humans were on a collision course with the natural world. They called on humankind to curtail environmental destruction and expressed concern about current, impending or potential damage on planet Earth involving ozone depletion, freshwater availability, marine life depletion, ocean dead zones, forest loss, biodiversity destruction, climate change and continued human population growth.