Business Benchmark Upper Intermediate Business Vantage Student's Book (Cambridge English)

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The idea of measuring extra-financial performance is nothing new: more than a hundred sustainability ratings and indices claim to do just that. The Natural Step has recently launched a new analysis tool and accompanying service to assist organisations explore what Future-Fit Business means in practice. An 'Exam Skills' section for BEC or BULATS, so students know exactly what to do to get the best score in each exam task type. Remaining competitive requires concerted effort across technology, talent, ESG and firm fundamentals.

The sustainability principles and framework promoted by The Natural Step are grounded in systems thinking, consensus on upstream causes and the science of what we need to do to create a sustainable society. Future-Fit Business Benchmark began as an initiative co-led by The Natural Step Canada and 3D Investment Foundation. Across 14 emerging and frontier technologies, current and planned adoption rates range from 53% to 89%. In 2012, Kate Raworth added social foundations to the Planetary Boundaries model, grounded in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Neuware - Business Benchmark Second edition is the official Cambridge English preparation course for Cambridge English: Business Preliminary, Vantage and Higher (also known as BEC), and BULATS.More and more voices are speaking up now about the need to move away from incremental improvement to be ‘less bad’ and that there is a problem with talking about best practice in isolation from the global crisis and existential threat of un-sustainability. The Future-Fit Business Benchmark looks at a generic business and how it interacts with stakeholders to define a set of universal break-even goals and positive pursuits.

The Business Vantage Student's Book contains authentic listening and reading materials, including interviews with business people, providing models for up to date business language. Systems science tells us how our economy must be transformed if we are to meet everyone's needs and live in harmony with nature. Topics and ideas engage students who are already at work or preparing to work in business in the future. To become future-fit, and ensure the possibility that we can flourish on Earth forever, every company – no matter what its size or sector – must reach specific thresholds of performance across a range of social and environmental issues. They show what graduates might reasonably be expected to know, do and understand at the end of their studies.Although smaller firms have scarce resources and differing levels of external scrutiny, all firms should prioritise sustainability.