The slides are lecture slides when I guess lecturing in the Post Graduate Program in Department of Accounting, La Trobe University, Australia. The majority of students attended this lecture are enrolled in Master of Professional Accounting and Master of Finance program. Among them there were also students from Master of Islamic Banking and Finance. This lecture was intended to enlighten students on the importance of Sustainable Development or Sustainability paradigm in accounting. Furthermore, the objective was to encourage students to be involved in Sustainability practice.
15. The Future We Want Paragraph 47 – Rio+20
Engaging major group and other stakeholders
We acknowledge the importance of corporate
sustainability reporting, and encourage companies, where
appropriate, especially publicly listed and large companies,
to consider integrating sustainability information into their
reporting.
We encourage industry, interested government and
relevant stakeholders, with the support of the United
Nations system, as appropriate, to develop models for best
practice and facilitate action for the integration of
sustainability reporting into account experiences from
already existing frameworks and paying particular attention
to the needs of developing countries, including for capacity
building.
Outline of presentation as a guideline to achieve the objective of this presentation (to discuss research progress).
Introduction to my presentation, it is not just about research study. It is a passion that I have for sustainable development.
Sustainable development in the past 40 years since the UN Conference on the Human Environment in 1972 in Stockholm.
The most generally accepted and used terminology of sustainable development. . The concept of sustainable development has the ability to attract environmental and equity debate into business (Eden 1994, pp. 160, 165).