Ireland: Bewley's coffee.

Ng, Poh Yen

Abstract

Promoting sustainable patterns of consumption and production is one crucial effort to ensure the resources of the Earth are managed efficiently for future development. The continuous growth in the world's population and a surge in consumerism as countries develop are forcing more competition for resources to fulfil the growing needs of humanity. According to the United Nation's latest SDG report (United Nations, 2022), the reliance on natural resources is rising by over 65% globally from 2000 to 2019. But at the same time, waste and pollution are also increasing exponentially. This suggests high inefficiency in the use of resources would jeopardise future development. As such, there are calls to decouple economic growth from environmental degradation (Sanyé-Mengual et al., 2019). Sustainable consumption and production (CSP) offer an integrated approach that extends into economic, social and environmental aspects of sustainable development which help to provide a systemic change to manage resources in a sustained way. One family business: Bewley's Limited, headquartered in Ireland with operations in the United Kingdom, is managing sustainability through relationships, community and environment. Bewley's works hard to ensure its business manages resources and production responsibly and is cautious of its carbon emissions and actively supports others' success.

Citation

NG, P.Y. 2023. Ireland: Bewley's coffee. In Birdthistle, N. and Hales, R. (eds.) Attaining the 2030 sustainable development goal of responsible consumption and production. Bingley: Emerald [online], chapter 6, pages 67-76. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-80455-840-920231006

• Acceptance Date: May 23, 2023
• Online Publication Date: Jun 2, 2023
• Publication Date: Jun 22, 2023
• Deposit Date: Jun 16, 2023
• Publicly Available Date: Jun 19, 2023
• Publisher: Emerald
• Pages: 67-76
• Series Title: Family business on a mission
• Book Title: Attaining the 2030 sustainable development goal of responsible consumption and production
• Chapter Number: Chapter 6
• ISBN: 9781804558430
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-80455-840-920231006
• Keywords: Sustainable consumption; Consumerism; Sustainable production; Net positive consumption; Family businesses
• Public URL: https://rgu-repository.worktribe.com/output/1988085