CEF Spotlight
Understanding Food Price Spikes: Insights for Business and Policymakers
By Michael A. Levi & Lindsay Iversen, Council on Foreign Relations Introduction Sudden, sharp increases in food prices have occurred more frequently in the last decade than in the previous thirty years, leading analysts to wonder whether a generation of relative stability ...
Working on What Matters: 6 Lessons in Corporate Water Stewardship
By Bob Reich, Manager, Global Environmental Stewardship at DuPont Over the past two decades, companies have taken a limited view on water stewardship programs by largely focusing their efforts on water use reduction within their manufacturing operations. Impactful corporate water stewardship must ...
Prahalad Award Postscript
By Former NRG Energy CEO David Crane Last May, the Corporate Eco Forum awarded me its C.K. Prahalad Award for Global Sustainability Business Leadership. A few days ago, I got a very generous note from M.R. Rangaswami praising me for living up ...
We’re Ready to Get to Work: Corporate Support Helps Close the Paris Climate Deal
By Brandy Wilson, Global Sustainability Director at CH2MAbout 2 months ago, I celebrated with the rest of Paris as nearly 200 nations signed the climate deal.Today, people are still asking me why I was there. Why did our CEO sign ...
U.S. Materials Marketplace Wins Prestigious “Circulars” Award at World Economic Forum Annual Meeting
US BCSD, Corporate Eco Forum and WBCSD partnership recognized for “disrupting business as usual by enabling the circular economy with data driven technologies”Selected from an impressive group of more than 200 entrants, the U.S. Materials Marketplace was recognized with a ...
Climate Action: Accountability and Opportunity for Businesses
By Owen Smith, Director of Energy Policy and Strategy for Ingersoll Rand’s Center for Energy Efficiency and Sustainability Put simply, the role of businesses in addressing climate change is paramount. Regardless of size or type, there is urgency for businesses to ...
The Difficult Task of Changing Consumers’ Outlook on the Sustainability of a Brand
By Helio Mattar, President & CEO, Akatu Institute for Conscious Consumption Expectation by most companies is that more sustainable versions of their products should be valued by consumers and hence be immediately preferred over the less sustainable versions of competing ones. That ...
Lessons from Patagonia National Park
Last month, nine outstanding leaders from CEF member companies were chosen from a highly competitive field of applicants to embark on a sustainability leadership development trip to Chile to witness the launch of a new national park in the Aysén region with renowned ...
Adapting to Climate Change with Intelligence
By Shruthi Rao, CEO & Co-Founder of Adapt ReadyI returned from COP 21 in Paris last month with great excitement. As a former sustainability consultant who had closely watched (and expressed frequent frustration with) the negotiation’s lack of progress for ...
10 Sustainable Business Stories That Shaped 2015
By Andrew Winston, Founder, Winston Eco-Strategies The year 2015 was a pivotal time when humanity turned more decisively toward building a thriving and sustainable world. On our largest shared challenge, climate change, most of the major hurdles to action — ...
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