The Business of Sustainability

October 2023
Citation:
53
ELR 10809
Issue
10
Author
Michael Curley

This Comment argues that what is needed to make sustainability work for business is a National Business Sustainability Council that would develop and promulgate sustainability criteria, be able to evaluate whether specific small businesses are meeting those criteria, and be able to “certify” that a small business is, in fact, meeting these criteria, and is therefore “sustainable.” It asserts the Council’s criteria and evaluation methodology should be both rigorous and transparent, such that when the Council awards a sustainability certification to a business, the federal and state governments will accept that certification.

Michael Curley is a Visiting Scholar at the Environmental Law Institute.

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