The magazine proposes a few resolutions for 2016. And we’re starting the year by practicing them. First, we call on the best and brightest Lebanese minds to seize the potentially lucrative opportunities that the Paris Agreement on climate change will afford. This is why we’ve put climate change on our cover. Our second, and most important, resolution is that 2016 will be our year of business ethics. There’s no better place to start than with the worst disaster this country has seen in recent memory: the (mis)handling of waste management. We take an in-depth look at a local company given far more opportunity than international best practice suggests it should have had. We’re setting the stage for a year in which we will take a very hard look at business ethics in this law-ignoring country. Milton Friedman wrote that a company’s top brass — be they a board of directors
