AU D
IA
SAL O M O NI
SUSTAINABILITY
CL
Five on Five Interview: Sustainability According to the Industry Players Series 2 - Part I
B
MAR
ack in January 2019, to officially kick-start the Sustainability section in
CO
our magazines, we asked five key players of the industry if they were
BE
willing to answer 15 questions on the role of sustainability, its challenges
N
EN
and the different approaches to the practice. The result was an inspiring, in-depth interview on some of the Best Practices of Sustainability in the surface treatment sector.
TA N
O
BLA
N DA
Back then we also promised we would do a series of interviews, involving
GA
E
other companies as well. Today we deliver on our commitment. After a brief hiatus, here we present the second instalment of the 5 on 5 Interview on Sustainability, which questions have been answered once again by five different companies that play a key role within our industry and that are at the forefront of the journey towards a greener and healthier environment for everyone. We are under no illusion: this journey is long and full of challenges, and we are running out of time. According to a 700-pages report1 by the
C E CIL
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) – the United Nations
IA
body for assessing the science related to climate change – the impacts of
SV
global warming of 1.5 degrees Celsius will lead to unprecedented changes:
EN
S
SO
N
from rising sea levels to more devastating droughts to more damaging storms. Pooling together more than 6,000 scientific publications, drawing contributions from 133 authors, and having more than 1,000 scientists review the findings, the IPCC report concluded that we have less than 12
RO
PE
REZ
years to make massive and unprecedented changes to the global energy
D
PE
infrastructure to limit global warming to moderate levels. We are glad to see that companies in our sector are not only acknowledging the issue but they are also putting words into action, by proving that being sustainable not only is possible but it can also provide for a great business value. We would like to thank AkzoNobel, BASF’s Coatings Division, Evonik, Perstorp and PPG for their commitment to participate to this interview and we hope it will make for an interesting, thought-provoking reading once again.
SUSTAINABILITY
E
AL NT
NM
RO VI
M
IC
NO
O EC
AL
CI
SO
EN
44
N.33 - 2020 APRIL - ipcm® Protective Coatings
AN
M
HU
1
”Global Warming of 1.5 ºC” – https://www.ipcc.ch/sr15/