Category: CEF Spotlight
How to Accelerate Corporate “Net Zero” Action
Reprinted with permission. Originally featured here on The Instigator. By Mark Tercek and Peter Ebsen Background: We recently put forth this submission to the Science-Based Targets Initiative (SBTi). We admire the SBTi, and we share their goal of “driving ambitious corporate climate action.” ...
Building a Water-Resilient Future
By Emilio Tenuta, SVP Corporate Sustainability, Ecolab How organizations can take action to avoid water-related risks and advance sustainability goals One of the many things we’ve learned in the past year is to expect the unexpected, starting with the disruptions from the ...
Management as a Calling
By Andrew J. Hoffman Ask any business student (or anyone for that matter) what the purpose of the corporation is, and they will likely parrot back that it is to “make money for its shareholders.” The prevalence of this belief ...
11 Top Impacts from The Davos Agenda
By Kirsten Salyer Opinion Editor, World Economic Forum The World Economic Forum's January meetings are at their heart working meetings focused on action. They bring together leaders from governments, businesses, and civil society to collaborate on solutions to the most pressing issues ...
Five Hot Topics for Corporate Conservation in 2021
This blog post was originally featured here. By Margaret O’Gorman If 2020 taught us anything, it was that plans can be derailed in an instant, priorities change overnight and what we consider to be pressing challenges one day can become low priority ...
The State of Green Business, 2021
By Joel Makower, Chairman & Executive Editor, GreenBiz Group There never has been a moment as opportune as this one to be talking about the intersection of business and sustainability. Our world has been rocked on several fronts, most notably by ...
The Six New Rules of Business
By Judy Samuelson Tell me which of the pressing issues of our time keep you awake at night, and I will tell you how the old rules of profit maximization and short-term thinking contribute to those problems. Globe-hopping brands with big footprints ...
Making ESG Reporting Work for Companies
By Dan Esty and Tyler Yeargain More and more investors want better alignment between their values and their portfolios – thus driving expanded interest in corporate sustainability performance as gauged by Environmental/Social/Governance (ESG) metrics. But the existing ESG data frameworks – ...
Five Lessons From McKinsey & Company’s Annual Global Sustainability Summit
This article was originally featured here. By Dickon Pinner, Senior Partner, McKinsey & Co. The COVID-19 pandemic has caused us to reimagine many fundamental aspects of business and society faster than thought possible just six months ago, in ways that could help ...
CEO Blueprint for Achieving Racial Equity
This article was originally featured here. By Greg Hills, Lakshmi Iyer, Michael McAfee, Josh Kirschenbaum, and Martin Whittaker The following is a joint statement from FSG, PolicyLink, and JUST Capital. The courageous antiracist movement sweeping across the world has called into question the American legacy. We have ...