How to be a triple bottom line general practice: working for profit, the people, and the planet

[摘要] The single bottom line in a business is its annual profit or loss. For 30 years advocates1 for social justice and the environment have called for full cost accounting with a triple bottom line2 (TBL), where all the consequences of a business are made transparent. These are its social, environmental, and economic impacts and outcomes. The triple bottom line’s goal is a transformational change in capitalism.A modern business should care about and report both its profit and the other outcomes it causes, for example, how it worsens or improves the welfare of its workers and increases or reduces pollution. In addition to profit, a TBL business plans and reports the impacts and outcomes of these wider needs — those of the people and the planet.

[学科分类] 卫生学