Category: Valuing Natural Capital
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 ...
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 ...
Life Lessons from Tom Lovejoy: A Force of Nature
By P.J. Simmons, Co-Founder and Chair, CEF The world lost an environmental superhero on Christmas day. And I lost one of my best friends and mentors: Dr. Thomas E. Lovejoy III. Tom had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer earlier this year, but the ...
The Business Value of Biodiversity
By Alison Taylor, Chief Sustainability Officer, ADM Biodiversity is integral for economic progress, and private sector actors hold influence and resources that are key to scaling innovative solutions that can help reverse biodiversity decline. As a global leader in the food and agriculture ...
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 ...
Future Proofing Business and Finance against Natural Capital Risk
By Dorothy Maxwell PhD, Director, The Sustainable Business Group The latest in the DōShorts Sustainable Business Collection, Valuing Natural Capital - Future Proofing Business and Finance (Dō Sustainability, 2015) written by Dorothy Maxwell provides the need to know facts on this emerging ...
Water and the New Normal: Reflections from Stockholm World Water Week
By William Sarni, Director and Practice Leader, Enterprise Water Strategy, DeloitteThe very successful 2014 Stockholm World Water Week (SWWW) has come to a close. The event broke attendance records with over 3,000 participants from industry, academia, nongovernmental organizations, and governmental ...
The Business Case for Water Stewardship: A Three-Step Process to Operationalize Effective Water Management Strategies
By Emilio Tenuta, vice president of corporate sustainability, EcolabThe dynamics of the world’s water situation are well understood: fresh water is increasingly scarce; it is diminishing in quality at an unacceptable rate; we do not have enough of it where ...
41 Global Companies Aim to Spur Corporate Action with New Online Platform Linking Nature with Business Benefits
New Natural Capital Business Hub offers a searchable database of case studies and resources to help companies evaluate the business case for action on natural capital. Phoenix, AZ – February 19, 2014 – Unveiled at the 6th Annual GreenBiz Forum, The Natural ...