{"id":2658,"date":"2016-02-29T08:30:45","date_gmt":"2016-02-29T07:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/doing-business\/?p=2658"},"modified":"2016-03-20T11:45:30","modified_gmt":"2016-03-20T10:45:30","slug":"iese-students-doing-good-and-doing-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/doing-business\/2016\/02\/29\/iese-students-doing-good-and-doing-well\/","title":{"rendered":"IESE Students Doing Good and Doing Well"},"content":{"rendered":"

For the last 13 years, IESE students have been organising\u00a0a conference called Doing Good Doing Well<\/a><\/strong> in which they invite speakers from around the world to talk about issues that have to do with environmental sustainability<\/strong>, corporate social responsibility<\/strong>, and other subjects\u00a0which fall within the idea of responsible busines<\/strong>s.<\/p>\n

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Solar 2<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It is always a pleasure to see the students commitment<\/strong> and fascinating to watch how the theme of the conference changes from year to year as a function of current events and the student’s ideas about what is important and where they want to put their energy<\/strong>. One presentation in this edition, for example, was about Solvay’s support for the around the world solar plane project, Solar Impulse 2. Others discussed the Stockholm Resilience Center’s idea of 9 boundaries for the planet<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Big Oil ?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

An interesting thing about this year’s conference is that a leading oil company did not renew its sponsorship. While\u00a0I understand that some\u00a0people were pleased by their absence, I think the conference benefited in the past from the tension their presence created, which was the subject of a\u00a0blog post<\/a> in this space last year.<\/p>\n

Part of that\u00a0disagreement is the pace at which people believe that the current energy infrastructure\u00a0can be changed to a lower carbon footprint\u00a0or even\u00a0made to be carbon neutral<\/strong>. Oil majors generally believe that such change will take many decades and thus believe that their role is fundamental. Others support the idea that much of the world’s oil, gas, and coal resources need to be left in the ground<\/a> if we have any chance of meeting the 2 degree target agreed upon in Paris.<\/p>\n

Laudato Si<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Another new aspect of the conference was a terrific session moderated by IESE’s Dr. Mele and led by Jose Ignacio Garc\u00eda<\/a>, who tweets under the hashtag ECOJESUIT and\u00a0went through his understanding of Pope Francis<\/strong>‘ second encyclical. The document was\u00a0summarized\u00a0in an earlier post<\/a>\u00a0but is worth reading in its entirety and can be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"20160227_134020_HDR\"<\/a>Implementing Cop 21<\/strong><\/h2>\n

I was asked to run a panel on the Paris agreement<\/strong> which was also discussed\u00a0by other speakers such as Etopia’s Michel Genet<\/a>. The questions discussed were the meaning of the Paris accord, concerns about its non-binding nature, and challenges facing its implementation. In summary the panel discussed the following ideas:<\/p>\n