Category: CEF Spotlight
A Unique Opportunity to Join the Circular Movement
By Trisa Thompson, VP, Corporate Responsibility & Talent and Capabilities, Dell It’s Monday, and it’s already been a big week. The UN formally unveiled their Sustainable Development Goals. The Pope continues to press climate change as his number one priority. And the 2016 ...
Meet the Winners of our 2015 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 embark on a life-changing leadership development journey to Chile, led by renowned adventurer and VP of Environmental Initiatives for Patagonia, Rick ...
Five Things I’ve Learned from 55 Years of Work at Gombe
By Jane Goodall, Founder, Jane Goodall Institute & UN Messenger of Peace It was 55 years ago, on July 14, 1960, that I arrived at the Gombe Stream Chimpanzee Reserve for the first time. I arrived, with my mother, on the government launch. ...
From Waste to Opportunity: Over 20 Companies Launch New Project to Scale up Material Reuse across US Facilities
Online marketplace allows companies to exchange underutilized materials, turning one company’s waste into raw material for the other. July 8, 2015: The National Materials Marketplace is a new joint pilot project led by the Corporate Eco Forum (CEF), US Business Council ...
Meet the Winner of the 2015 C.K. Prahalad Award for Global Business Sustainability Leadership
From Left to Right: William Reilly, CEF Chair P.J. Simmons, Sir Rober Swan, CEF Founder MR Rangaswami, and CEF Director Amy O’Meara with 2015 CK Prahalad Award winner David Crane of NRG Energy. The winner was recognized by the Corporate Eco ...
The Cultural Schism of Climate Change: How science takes a back seat to identity politics in the U.S.
By Andrew Hoffman, Director, Erb Institute at the University of Michigan This post originally appeared in the Stanford University Press blog.In January 2014, the Eastern and Southern United States were plunged into extraordinarily frigid temperatures that stranded air travelers, stressed power grids, ...
Lessons from Chiapas
Last month, as part of CEF’s annual Leadership Development Challenge, thirteen outstanding leaders from CEF member companies were chosen from a highly competitive field of applicants from around the world to embark on a life-changing journey to Mexico City and Chiapas, ...
As Goes China, so Goes Global Business and Sustainability
By Jib Ellison, Founder and CEO, Blu Skye On November 11, 2014, while President Obama was meeting with President Xi and hammering out the details of a bilateral carbon reduction declaration, former Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson and former Vice Premier of China ...
Entrepreneurship, a Vehicle for Sustainability
By Francisco Suárez, Corporate Affairs Director, FEMSA On February 27, 2014 at the TEDxCamelinasAve in the city of Morelia, Mexico, Coca-Cola FEMSA’s Corporate Affairs Director, Francisco Suárez, former Sustainability Director of FEMSA, gave a talk entitled “Entrepreneurship, a vehicle for sustainability.”TEDxCamelinasAve was launched ...
Meet the Winners of the 2014 Leadership Development Challenge
Thirteen outstanding leaders from CEF member companies have been chosen from a highly competitive field of applicants from around the world to embark on a life-changing leadership development journey to Mexico City and Chiapas, Mexico, led by FEMSA Foundation Director Vidal Garza. The winners ...