Category: CEF Spotlight
Five Tips for Embedding ESG in the Earnings Call
A version of this appeared as an Op. Ed. in IR Magazine. By Kevin Eckerle, Director of Corporate Research and Engagement, NYU Stern Center for Sustainable Business; Brian Tomlinson, Director of Research for the CEO Investor Forum at Chief Executives for ...
Bold Business Leadership is Key to Rebuilding a Resilient, Low-Carbon Economy
By Tom Murray, Vice President, EDF+Business This article was originally published here. Even before the tragic illness, heartbreaking loss of life and growing financial hardship of the COVID-19 crisis, the social contract between government, business and society was stretched to its limit. ...
Is the COVID-19 Outbreak a Black Swan or the New Normal?
This article was originally featured in MIT Sloan Management Review. By Andrew Winston, Author and Founder of Winston Eco-Strategies In the time between writing this and reading it, whatever I say about COVID-19 will likely be out of date. That’s the nature ...
How to Get Involved in the World Economic Forum’s COVID Action Platform
As the International Organization for Public-Private Cooperation, the World Economic Forum, acting as partner to the World Health Organization, is mobilizing all stakeholders to protect lives and livelihoods. Context The dramatic spread of COVID-19 has disrupted lives, livelihoods, communities and businesses worldwide. ...
Mainstreaming Nature: 3 Simple Strategies
By Margaret O’Gorman, President, Wildlife Habitat Council Business plays a lead role in addressing many of the challenges that face our world today. The inclusion of business as a significant sector in helping achieve the UNSDGs is no accident as policy ...
Five Ways Businesses Can Embrace Clean Air and Reap the Benefits
By Jane Burston, Executive Director, Clean Air Fund Corporate social responsibility strategies, greenhouse gas emission reduction targets, reducing use of single use plastics – there is a lot going on for the average head of sustainability. Air quality is important but ...
Meet the Winners of CEF’s 2019 Sustainability Leadership Development Program
Ten outstanding leaders from CEF member companies have been chosen from a highly competitive field of applicants from around the world to attend the CEF Sustainability Leadership Development Program, “Harnessing Collaborative Leadership to Achieve Sustainability at Scale” led by Bruno ...
2019 C.K. Prahalad Award for Global Business Sustainability Leadership Honors TerraCycle’s Loop Shopping Platform, with posthumous honors to former Duke Energy CEO, Jim Rogers
Award recognizes two winners for exemplifying the fundamental connection between sustainability, innovation and long-term business success in a globalizing world. Park City, UT — June 11, 2019 – CEF presented the 2019 C.K. Prahalad Award in two categories: leadership by a ...
Why Morgan Stanley Is Focusing on Plastic Waste
This article was originally featured here. By Audrey Choi, Chief Sustainability Officer and CEO of the Morgan Stanley Institute for Sustainable Investing In many ways we all benefit from the innovative products and services that plastics enable throughout our lives, from our ...
Congress is Missing the Business Case for Climate Action: Here’s How Your Company Can Help
By Cynthia Curtis, Senior Vice President for Sustainability at JLL Leaders in the Corporate Eco Forum understand and appreciate the need for government action on climate. While our goals and initiatives are vital, we know that in isolation they’re not as ...