MBS662 Business, Society and the Environment

Session 3
Across the world
Recap and questions
Discussion

• Global Risk Report from WEF

• Who are the WEF?
- What did you take away from a look at the Global risks report?

- http://reports.weforum.org/global-risks-report-2020/shareable-infographics/
2019
2020
2020 p7 (!)
2021 report
2022 report
THE DAVOS AGENDA

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/01/these-are-the-top-impacts-from-the-davos-agenda/

A virtual event from January 25-29

1500 Global leaders
“A crucial year to rebuild trust”

DAVOS 2022 – May 22 to May 26

Back to in person meeting

after 2 year hiatus replaced by online

Business
Society

Survival
Housing
Access to Food
Healthcare
Education
Opportunity to succeed
Government
Cosmopolitanism

• What is cosmopolitanism?
Listen

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3ct41cw

The Compass: Slick – the Story of Oil, Shell and Nigeria

Episode 1 (of 4) 30 mins

The Cosmopolitical Corporation

multinational corporations (MNCs)

not merely private institutions
but political actors;
political responsibility to all actors

https://www.behindthebrands.org/brands/

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/07/affluence-bigger-threat-than-coronavirus-
scientists-capitalism/
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https://www.weforum.org/agenda/archive/sdg-12-responsible-consumption-and-production
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SDG 6 – Water and sanitation
https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/water-and-sanitation/

• 1 in 4 health care facilities lacks basic water services

• 3 in 10 people lack access to safely managed drinking water services and 6 in 10 people lack access to
safely managed sanitation facilities.
• At least 892 million people continue to practice open defecation.
• Women and girls are responsible for water collection in 80 per cent of households without access to water
on premises.
• Between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of the global population using an improved drinking water source
has increased from 76 per cent to 90 per cent
• Water scarcity affects more than 40 per cent of the global population and is projected to rise. Over 1.7
billion people are currently living in river basins where water use exceeds recharge.
• 2.4 billion people lack access to basic sanitation services, such as toilets or latrines
• More than 80 per cent of wastewater resulting from human activities is discharged into rivers or sea
without any pollution removal
• Each day, nearly 1,000 children die due to preventable water and sanitation-related diarrheal diseases
• Approximately 70 per cent of all water abstracted from rivers, lakes and aquifers is used for irrigation
• Floods and other water-related disasters account for 70 per cent of all deaths related to natural disasters

https://www.unwater.org/water-facts/scarcity/
Thinking about water

The other inconvenient truth

https://youtu.be/uJhgGbRA6Hk
Debate

Should water be privatised?

How important is local context?

BSE in the news

5 Things to know about the IPCC’s latest climate report

• World Economic Forum

https://www.weforum.org/videos/ipccs-latest-climate-report-highlights-need-for-urgent-action
Assignments

Sample short videos from other student groups –

• Remember their question and focus was different. The second one is by an
external group – so they did not meet face to face.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QThGD20PvBA
https://youtu.be/_tvqcTctT5k

• What should they have done – e.g. credits and references – are they okay here?
Thank you