Some truths are easy to admire and difficult to confront. Mauritius and Rodrigues have long prospered because of their coastlines. Our beaches are not simply places of leisure. They are the foundation of our tourism model, our national brand, our economic identity, and even the emotional memory of those who call these islands home. Yet the very geography that sustains us has become our most fragile frontier. The same line that symbolises beauty is now revealing vulnerability.

Simon Seebaluck, founder of Skyfall Consulting, discusses the importance of Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) standards and Circular Economy principles in Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) frameworks. We also discuss the significance of GRI disclosures related to climate change and how they align with global sustainability and financial reporting standards.

According to the Ellen MacArthur Foundation (EMF), this USD 2.5 trillion clothing industry annually hires over 300 million people along the value chain; cotton production alone accounts for almost 7% of all employment in certain low-income countries.

The Circular Economy is an economic master plan recommending ingenious ways of modifying the perennial and prevailing linear consumption system into a circular one.

Sustainability education aims to prepare young children for sustainable decision-making in their future lives through social learning.

According to the United Nations, the world will be required to increase its food production by as much as 50% to feed another two billion people by 2050.

Attaining sustainable development is a way to ensure that people have the appropriate resources such as energy, water, food, and health, above all to satisfy their human rights–also by not compromising the ability of future generations to achieve their basic requirements (United Nations [U.N], 1987).

According to Pinchot (1910), the human race’s first duty is to control the earth it lives upon. Conservation, which ought to have been humanity’s primary focus, is what we call Sustainability today.

According to Pinchot (1910), the human race’s first duty is to control the earth it lives upon. Conservation, which ought to have been humanity’s primary focus, is what we call Sustainability today.