Two SMU student associations, the Special interest and Community Service Sodality and SMU Verts, organised a forum recently on environmental sustainability in action. Invited speakers at the event were: Howard Shaw, executive director, Singapore Environmental Council (SEC); Diane Gulyas, group vice president, DuPont performance materials, DuPont Company; Ester An , CSR head and deputy general manager for corporate affairs, City Developments Limited (CDL); Elizabeth Ong, adjunct business professor, SMU; and Vaneeta Bhojwani, senior engineer, resource conservation, National Environment Agency (NEA).
Audience: DuPont uses agricultural products to produce biofuel. There is currently a food shortage with biofuels accused of depleting the supply of agricultural produce. Does this not conflict with your sustainability goals?
Gulyas: I think we are just in the early stages of understanding biofuel. Many people have latched on to the debate about ethanol and the food versus fuel competition. There are lots of things companies like us can do to squelch that debate, but it takes a whole lot of science and research to get there.
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