Mukherjee Mahua, Chatterjee Ranit, Khanna Bhagat Kumar, Dhillon Preet Pal Singh, Kumar Atul, Bajwa Sukhreet, Prakash Amit, Shaw Rajib
Centre of Excellence in Disaster Mitigation and Management, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India.
RIKA India, New Delhi, India.
Prog Disaster Sci. 2020 Oct;7:100117. doi: 10.1016/j.pdisas.2020.100117. Epub 2020 Jul 2.
This article views the COVID-19 pandemic as an opportunity leading to a significant reduction in pollution levels, clean waters in rivers, improved visibility, and other tangible benefit to humanity and the environment. In Post-COVID scenario, to restore the margins and regain the lost production, industries are likely to increase their production leading to a quantum jump in the pollution levels. Having precedence of such a scenario in 2008-09, this article looks at what are the possible avenues to engage the city government and business houses through an a new normal ECO-BCP concept for long term sustainability. All economic stimulus needs to be tied down with the stringent reduction in the emission norms. The Ten Principles for the Eco-centric BCP guide the reopening of MSMEs after lockdown period called to check the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Eco-centric BCP model will help the MSMEs to adopt the new-normal business strategies to align with the country-specific commitments to SDGs, SFDRR and Paris declaration.
本文认为，新冠疫情是一个契机，它带来了污染水平显著降低、河流清洁、能见度提高等切实惠及人类和环境的好处。在后疫情时代，为了恢复利润并挽回损失的产量，各行业可能会增加产量，从而导致污染水平大幅跃升。鉴于2008 - 09年曾出现过这种情况，本文探讨了通过一种新的常态化生态业务连续性（ECO - BCP）概念，有哪些可能的途径来促使市政府和企业参与，以实现长期可持续发展。所有经济刺激措施都需要与严格降低排放标准挂钩。以生态为中心的业务连续性的十项原则指导着在为遏制新冠疫情传播而实施封锁期后中小企业的重新开业。以生态为中心的业务连续性模式将帮助中小企业采用新的常态化商业战略，以符合该国对可持续发展目标、《仙台框架》和《巴黎宣言》的具体承诺。
