Managing For Sustainability Of Anz Corporation And The...

In the recent decades, changing in technology, environment and social has affected everyone including families, communities and governments (RMIT University (ed.), 2014). There are many evidences that the earth has had negative affect by economic activities. Today, many people and corporations have more concerned about sustainability development. United Nation (UN) defines sustainability development as â€Å"the development that meet the need of present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own need†. The three pillars of sustainability are environmental sustainability, social sustainability and economic sustainability that outlined by the United Nation can be translated into corporate responsibility approach that†¦show more content†¦Pollution is warning that people over used the natural recourses (). The concern of environmental is the most important on sustainability development (). The first pillar is Environment sustainability which means â€Å"the preservation of environmental recourses and biodiversity, creation of sustainability access to safe drinking water, and enhancement of quality of life among the most improvement†( RMIT University (ed.), 2014). The ANZ realized that they have impact on the environment directly and indirectly such as the energy consumed in their operate office, products and service they provide to customers and technology and equipment. They aim to reduce the environment footprint such as consumption of energy, greenhouse emission, water, paper and amount of waste they send to land fill. For example, reducing amount of paper that used in their business operation is introducing new technology for printing called â€Å"Follow You† that can help employee to print from any printer and also they purchased carbon neutral paper that equal more than 1,500 of trees. The result is they can save over 100 tons of paper. Also, Recycling can lead to saving in energy, water, carbon emi ssion and landfill space by they donated and reused some laptop from their operation to school in New Zealand and recycling the item in the kitchen such as aluminum cans, bottles, paper and electronic waste. ANZ work with