Category: CEF Spotlight
16 Ways Your Company Can “Walk the Walk” on Climate Change this April 29th
The People’s Climate March is coming to Washington, DC on April 29th. Businesses and their employees can play a big role. By Andrew Winston, Author and Founder of Winston Eco-Strategies In September 2014, hundreds of thousands of people marched through the streets of ...
9 Sustainable Business Stories That Shaped 2016
(This post first appeared at Harvard Business Review online and Andrew Winston's blog) By Andrew Winston, Author and Founder of Winston Eco-Strategies In 2015, the world pivoted in a historic way toward sustainability. Debates about climate change melted away. Every country committed to action ...
Reflections from Cody, WY and Yellowstone National Park
Last month, nine outstanding leaders from CEF member companies -- chosen from a highly competitive field of applicants -- joined wildlife ecologist Arthur Middleton and CEF Leadership Council Member Jean Sweeney, for a trip to Cody, WY and Yellowstone National Park to ...
Meet the Winners of our 2016 Sustainability Leadership Development Challenge
Nine outstanding leaders from CEF member companies have been chosen from a highly competitive field of applicants from around the world to join wildlife ecologist Arthur Middleton and CEF Leadership Council Member Jean Sweeney, for a trip to Cody, WY and Yellowstone National Park ...
Meet the Winners of the 2016 C.K. Prahalad Award for Global Business Sustainability Leadership
From L to R: Amy O'Meara (CEF), Jan Rabe (Siemens), Alison Taylor (Siemens), MR Rangaswami (CEF), and P.J. Simmons (CEF) 2016 C.K. Prahalad Award for Global Business Sustainability Leadership Honors Joe Kaeser and Siemens, with Special Recognition to Christiana Figueres and Douglas ...
Conservation is Everyone’s Business
By Larry Selzer, President and CEO, The Conservation Fund Any ambitious movement for major transformation starts with courageous, far-sighted visionaries. But to fully succeed – to tip fundamental change into the mainstream – every consequential movement requires massive participation and broad ...
Prahalad Award Postscript
By Former NRG Energy CEO David Crane Last May, the Corporate Eco Forum awarded me its C.K. Prahalad Award for Global Sustainability Business Leadership. A few days ago, I got a very generous note from M.R. Rangaswami praising me for living up ...
U.S. Materials Marketplace Wins Prestigious “Circulars” Award at World Economic Forum Annual Meeting
US BCSD, Corporate Eco Forum and WBCSD partnership recognized for “disrupting business as usual by enabling the circular economy with data driven technologies”Selected from an impressive group of more than 200 entrants, the U.S. Materials Marketplace was recognized with a ...
Lessons from Patagonia National Park
Last month, nine outstanding leaders from CEF member companies were chosen from a highly competitive field of applicants to embark on a sustainability leadership development trip to Chile to witness the launch of a new national park in the Aysén region with renowned ...
Pilot project implemented in the US by 23 leading companies reveals promising opportunities to eliminate industrial waste
New report details early results and outlines a path forward for a national-scale “Materials Marketplace” Read the reportToday, the U.S. Business Council for Sustainable Development (US BCSD), Corporate Eco Forum (CEF) and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) announced ...