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Jason Drew that was adopted to become compulsory for
Sustainability Expert and Author membership of CESA at the CESA AGM held at
the conference. All member firms are now required
Jason Drew, Sustainability Expert stated that to prepare a simple sustainability report as part of
earlier in the century we experienced the Industrial their annual declarations to CESA. Thela thanked
Revolution and now we are experiencing the member firms involved in the development of the
Sustainability Revolution and that it is up to framework that included GIBB, UWP Consulting
Leadership to show us the change. He maintains and Royal HaskoningDHV. The report is aligned
that in our resource constrained world that we with international best practice (FIDIC) and the
need to do things radically different. He posed the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI).
question of where we get leadership from, not from
Government who only have a short term. He went
on to say that honesty is key and he believes that
the only leadership that we can follow is that of
business - if a company does not follow through on
its values then consumers move away they have
to do the right thing. Drew made a brilliant case
showing that you can be both an Environmentalist
and a Capitalist in order to do good for communities.
He showed examples of what businesses can do to
make a profit in an inclusive sustainable way that
can fix our planet.

Abe Thela
Newly elected President of CESA Session 2 Day 1 L-R: James Ngobeni; Lullu Krugel;
Abe Thela; and Andre van der Walt
Abe Thela, the newly elected President of CESA
launched the CESA Sustainability Framework

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