I met Garrett Quinn , the Chief Sustainability Office for Smurfit Kappa, when doing interviews for my Harvard Business Review article with Alison Taylor about the evolving role of the CSO. He took on that role and joined the Executive…
…in the questionable world of reality TV dating shows, and there’s a sustainability tilt on this. We’ve finally found an intersection of our two otherwise very separate fields! Bob: Explain how you’ve found yourself in this world. I know…
…In college I became increasingly involved in topics related to sustainability both within and outside the classroom. Eccles: What was your first job out of college and what did you do? O’Brien: For several years after graduation I…
…by companies and investors. He is the Founding Chairman of the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board, one of the founding members of the International Integrated Reporting Council and a Visiting Professor of Management Practice…
…University’s Saïd Business School and founding Chairman of the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB), companies should put aside the wait-and-see approach on enhancing their sustainability disclosure strategy because of…
…of the costs and benefits. Prior to the SEC’s announcement, the sustainability NGO Ceres and the carbon software accounting firm Persefoni (to whom I’m an advisor) commissioned The SustainAbility Institute by ERM to do a survey of…
…at a big Unilever event a couple of years ago. “In the field of sustainability when and how should entrepreneurs also be activists?” I thought that was pretty interesting and the idea stuck with me. Original publication ↗
…a say on our plan. As a company, we want to join the dots between sustainability and financial performance. Our plan is a manifest demonstration of this. For example, we know there is going to be a carbon tax within 10 years, and we…
…Foundation had a meeting on March 2-4 and discussed their proposed “Sustainability Standards Board (SSB).” The current plan is a formal announcement at COP 26 in November of this year. Its top priority will be disclosures regarding…
…Gonzalez (R-Ohio) who argues that the motivation behind mandating sustainability-related disclosures is to solve political or moral problems and not to protect investors. Yet investors, such as Climate Action 100+ a group of 545…
…by Anne Simpson, Managing Investment Director, Board Governance and Sustainability at CalPERS, ’’Say on Pay’ has provided a rubber stamp to various versions of pay, ever escalating and unlinked to performance. Hence on the CalPERS side…
…SPOTLIGHT: Time to act on climate change” by Meryam Omi, Head of Sustainability and Responsible Investment. Through a proprietary methodology they evaluate 84 companies in six sectors: oil and gas, metals and mining electric…
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