Biosphere Impact Balance sheet measuring corporate sustainability in bounded economy

Luonnon tuottamat ekosysteemipalvelut ovat elintärkeitä ihmiselle ja niiden tuottaminen muilla tavoin on kallista, hankalaa sekä joissain tapauksissa myös mahdotonta. Kuitenkin ilmastonmuutos ja luontokato uhkaavat juuri luonnon pääomaa joka näitä palveluita ihmiselle ilmaiseksi tuottaa. Tapamme tuo...

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Main Author: Nelimarkka, Mia
Other Authors: Jyväskylä University School of Business and Economics, Jyväskylän yliopiston kauppakorkeakoulu, Taloustieteet, Business and Economics, Jyväskylän yliopisto, University of Jyväskylä
Format: Master's thesis
Language:eng
Published: 2023
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Online Access: https://jyx.jyu.fi/handle/123456789/86108
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description Luonnon tuottamat ekosysteemipalvelut ovat elintärkeitä ihmiselle ja niiden tuottaminen muilla tavoin on kallista, hankalaa sekä joissain tapauksissa myös mahdotonta. Kuitenkin ilmastonmuutos ja luontokato uhkaavat juuri luonnon pääomaa joka näitä palveluita ihmiselle ilmaiseksi tuottaa. Tapamme tuottaa ja kuluttaa hyödykkeitä on merkittävässä roolissa sekä ongelman muodostumisessa että sen ratkaisussa, mutta tapaamme mitata mm. taloudellista kehitystä on kritisoitu lähinnä tukevan ongelman muodostumista. Pro gradu väittää, että yritysten tapa toimia on yksi luonnon pääoman arvon säilymisen kannalta oleva keskeinen tekijä, mutta tapamme mitata yrityksen kestävyyttä ja kehitystä ei tue riittävästi ongelmien ratkaisua. Yksi perustekijöistä josta on kiistelty, on ajatus siitä onko taloudellinen toimintamme osa luonnon suurempaa systeemiä ja luoko luonto silloin rajoja myös yrityksen toiminnalle. Vuonna 2021 julkaistu Dasgupta Review lähtee tästä ajatuksesta perustuen Barrett et al. (2020) luomaan impact inequality-formulaan sekä Rockstrom et al. (2009) kehittämään ajatukseen planetaarisista rajoista. Yhteensä nämä julkaisut näyttäisivät luovan rajapintoja, jolloin luonnon pääoman arvo muuttuu. Pro gradu lähteekin määrittelemään yrityksen kestävyyttä taseen kautta sillä perusajatuksella, että kun luonnon pääoman arvo muuttuu yrityksen toiminnan johdosta, myös yrityksen toiminnan kestävyys muuttuu. Päämääränä Pro gradussa on muodostaa tase– Biosfäärivaikutusten Tase – jossa tarkastelun kohteena ovat taseen neljän pääryhmän muodostuminen: varat, saatavat, velat ja oma pääoma sekä näiden väliset yhteydet. Vaikka muodostetun taseen todetaan voivan tuovan lisäarvoa yrityksen kestävyyden mittaamisessa ja seurannassa erityisesti siltä kannalta, kuinka kaukana yrityksen toiminta on määritellystä kestävyydestä, todetaan myös että taseen muodostamiseen käytetyt työkalut eivät ole ongelmattomia, niissä on useita haasteita, eivätkä ne pysty ratkaisemaan kaikkia todettuja ongelmia. Ecosystem services are vital for humans and producing them in other ways is expensive, problematic, and in some cases even impossible. However, climate change and loss of nature threaten the natural capital which provides these services to humans. The way we produce and consume commodities plays a significant role in both the formation of the problem and its solution, but the way we measure e.g. economic development has been criticized for supporting mainly the formation of the problem. The master's thesis claims that the way corporations operate is one of the key factors in terms of maintaining the value of natural capital, but our way of measuring a corporate sustainability and development does not sufficiently support the solutions. One of the fundamental factors that has been debated is the idea of whether our economic activity is part of nature's larger system, and whether nature then also creates limits for the corporation's activity. The Dasgupta Review (2021) starts from this idea based on the impact inequality formula created by Barrett et al., (2020) and the idea Rockstrom et al. (2009) develop on planetary boundaries. Together, these publications seem to create interfaces whereby the value of natural capital changes. Master’s thesis sets out to define the corporate sustainability through the balance sheet with the basic idea that when the value of natural capital changes due to the corporation's operations, the sustainability of the corporation's operations also changes. The goal of the Master's thesis is to create a balance sheet – Biosphere Impact Balance sheet – in which the formation of four main groups of the balance sheet are examined: assets, receivables, liabilities, equity, and the connections between them. Although it is found that the created balance sheet can bring added value in measuring and monitoring the corporation's sustainability, especially from the point of view of how far the corporation's operations are from the defined sustainability, it also notes that the tools used to create the balance sheet are not without problems. There are several challenges for using them and not all the problems identified can be solved.
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title Biosphere Impact Balance sheet : measuring corporate sustainability in bounded economy
title_full Biosphere Impact Balance sheet : measuring corporate sustainability in bounded economy
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topic Biosphere Impact Balance sheet BIBs corporate sustainability strong sustainability Yritysten ympäristöjohtaminen Corporate Environmental Management 20425 yritykset kestävä kehitys taseet (kirjanpito) ympäristövastuu biosfääri enterprises sustainable development balance sheets environmental responsibility biosphere
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