Entrepreneurship in the green sector - Indo-Pacific Environmental Group

Entrepreneurship in the green sector motivates collective action, and it is the most dynamic way to address and resolve environmental damage. Business ventures can be the most powerful engines of individual engagement, and their success incites others. Governments often follow their people’s aspirations and may provide development assistance such as preferential tax treatments. They then get ahead with the necessary legal framework and further incentives.

Neither political nor geographical borders isolate countries form global environmental issues. Air and water pollution, as well as the rise in average temperatures, impact each and every country and individual on our planet. We all must become Global Citizens by participating in environmental damage mitigation. There is no insignificant individual awareness, constructive conversation, consumer choice, recycling effort, donation to organizations, or vote. Carbon-neutral living is entirely possible, so is regenerative agriculture, and so is reversing global warming. Consumers make the right choices when given viable economic alternatives. Governments generate good policies when protected from industry groups’ undue influence.

Industries with no future refuse and fight progress; industries that fight progress have no future. Progressive negotiated regulations are in fact positive stimulants to keeping an edge on the competition. Notably, the US auto industry has recently illustrated this fact by wanting to keep strong environmental regulations in effect.

Mitigating environmental damage is an existential emergency. IPEH is braiding innovation and creative solutions from across cultures, industries, and environmental action, to help catalyze entrepreneurship in the green sector.

From Ron Garan, an astronaut who spent 177 days in space: “When we look down at the Earth from space, we see this amazing, indescribably beautiful planet. It looks like a living, breathing organism. But it also, at the same time, looks extremely fragile…. Anybody else who’s ever gone to space says the same thing because it really is striking and it’s really sobering to see this paper-thin layer and to realize that that little paper-thin layer is all that protects every living thing on Earth from death, basically.”

Philip Lajaunie