Findings and Lessons for a Livable Planet

This chapter emphasizes how collaborations across nations to transform the global economy, deeply decarbonize, and reach the Sustainable Development Goals can have the potential to create a much more vibrant, equal, and livable planet. It refers to the mitigation of climate disruption, reduction of suffering, and attainment of prosperity when conditions are created that allow social enterprises to flourish. It also reviews case studies of cooperative sustainability pathbreakers that exemplify the power of the private sector to effect positive changes in advance of legal requirements. The chapter discusses the importance of careful drafting of governance documents to include clear purposes and direction to advance multiple sustainability goals, such as those that include decarbonized energy, food and agriculture, water, finance, and trade. It explains how sustainability pathbreakers tend to use governance documents to articulate their purpose and set a trajectory for their day-to-day operations.