Category: CEF Spotlight
2023 C.K. Prahalad Award for Business Sustainability Leadership Honors the First Movers Coalition
Award recognizes winners for exemplifying the fundamental connection between sustainability, innovation and long-term business success. CEF presented the 2023 C.K. Prahalad Award to the First Movers Coalition, recognizing the coalition’s groundbreaking efforts to decarbonize high-emitting industries. The award was announced in ...
6 Reasons Why We Can Be (Cautiously) Optimistic About Solving the Climate Crisis
Photo by Karsten Würth on Unsplash Reprinted with permission. Originally featured in two parts: part one here & part two here. Written by Karl Burkart, Deputy Director One Earth, formerly DiCaprio Foundation Dir. Science & Technology I’ve been spending a lot of ...
To lead on climate action, engage your employees—all of them
Photo by Hannah Busing on Unsplash By Aiyana Bodi, Senior Associate, Drawdown Labs We are reaching an important juncture within the corporate climate landscape. In a recent Deloitte survey of over 2,000 C-suite executives, 97 percent said “their companies have already ...
Rheaply Acquisition of the Materials Marketplace Will Fuel Next-Level Growth of Circularity
By Andy Mangan, US BCSD founder The United States Business Council for Sustainable Development (US BCSD) announced this October that Rheaply will be acquiring its Materials Marketplace platform. The Materials Marketplace has grown quickly since its inception in 2015 to a ...
Who’s Behind the Right’s Anti-ESG Campaign?
Reprinted with permission. Originally featured here. Written by Jon Hale, Ph.D., CFA, Director of Sustainability Research for the Americas at Sustainalytics. A New York Times article this week shed some light on who is behind the anti-ESG campaign coming from the political right in the ...
Celebrating the Sustainability Legacy of King Charles III
King Charles III's decades-long visionary leadership has made a huge impact to advance climate change and natural capital solutions, and he’s been such a vital champion of organizations like CEF in efforts to galvanize business sustainability leadership. His powerful remarks ...
Consumer Sustainability Trends Driving Structural Change in Food and Beverage
By ADM. To dive deeper into ADM's findings, click here. Now more than ever, consumers are tuned into the environmental and social impacts of their food and beverage choices. In fact, over half (54%) of global consumers feel they can make ...
2022 C.K. Prahalad Award for Global Business Sustainability Leadership Honors Shopify’s Sustainability Fund and Stripe Climate
Award recognizes winners for exemplifying the fundamental connection between sustainability, innovation and long-term business success in a globalizing world. CEF presented the 2022 C.K. Prahalad Award to two co-winners, Shopify Sustainability Fund and Stripe Climate, recognizing their groundbreaking efforts to catalyze ...
Move Over Smokey: We Need Innovation to Save Our Forests—and Corporate Sustainability Leaders Can Help Speed it Up
DroneSeed autonomous reforestation operations By Vincent Caruso and Nancy Pfund, DBL Partners Fire season is here in the northern hemisphere, and it is shaping up to be another gut-wrenching year with 53% of the contiguous U.S. experiencing drought conditions. To be blunt, 20th ...
Why Biodiversity May Be More Important to Your Business Than You Realize
Reprinted with permission. Originally featured here. Written by Alexis Gazzo, EY France Climate Change Leader; Partner, Climate Change and Sustainability Services, EY & Associés In brief Capital could be diverted away from businesses that deplete natural resources or cause adverse biodiversity impacts. Managing ...