CEF Spotlight
Ecolab CEO Urges “Big Bang Catalyst” to Tackle Rising Water Scarcity: Internal Shadow Pricing
With 45,000 employees serving 1 million customer facilities in 171 countries, Ecolab has a unique perspective on water trends across a wide spectrum of industries. In his keynote address at the 2013 CEF Annual Meeting, Ecolab CEO Doug Baker argued ...
Andrew Winston Interviews Kurt Kuehn, Hannah Jones, and Vidal Garza – Winners of 2013 Prahalad Award
Watch the fascinating, candid interview with the 2013 winners of the Corporate Eco Forum's C.K. Prahalad Award for Global Sustainability Leadership: Kurt Kuehn, Chief Financial Officer at UPS; Hannah Jones, VP for Sustainable Business & Innovation at Nike; and Vidal Garza Cantú, ...
Meet the Winners of the 2013 C.K. Prahalad Awards for Global Business Sustainability Leadership
CEF Chair P.J. Simmons (far left) and CEF Founder MR Rangaswami (right) with 2013 CK Prahalad Award winners Vidal Garza Cantú of FEMSA Foundation, Hannah Jones of Nike, and Kurt Kuehn of UPS. The winners were recognized by the Corporate Eco ...
The Business Case for Nature
Why is an investment banker trying to save nature? Unlike many conservationists, especially leaders of environmental nonprofits, I didn’t spend my childhood in the late 1960s and early 1970s roaming the great outdoors. I wasn’t a backpacker, hiker, kayaker, tree climber, ...
Four Keys to Leading-Edge Sustainability Engagement Initiatives
By Susan Stevens, Founder & CEO, Practically Green The Chief Sustainability Officer of one of the world’s largest companies recently told me how excited he was that 13,000 employees around the world had joined their green teams. “That’s great,” I replied—because it ...
Meet the Winners of CEF’s 2013 Sustainability Leadership Contest
Nine outstanding leaders from CEF member companies have been chosen from a highly competitive field of applicants from around the world to embark on a life-changing leadership development journey along the Idaho Salmon River led by corporate sustainability expert and CEF Advisory ...
Scenarios: How Could Ecosystem Services Concepts Play Out by 2025?
By Sissel Waage and Kit Armstrong, Business for Social Responsibility. Intro: As part of the Corporate Eco Forum’s Valuing Natural Capital Initiative, we are making an effort to showcase other key organizations working with business to elevate the concept of natural capital and facilitate ...
Is Sustainable Business Making a Difference?
By Joel Makower, Chairman and Executive editor of GreenBiz Group. In the world of sustainable business, there is a tried-and-true litany of reasons why companies take proactive measures. You hear them recited at conferences and read them in books and articles, as ...
Materiality Matters: Sustainability Standards for the Form 10-K
By Jean Rogers, Founder and Executive Director, the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB). Materiality: what does it mean in relation to sustainability, and how can an improved understanding of it change how companies manage and investors invest? To create next-generation sustainability standards for ...
Zipcar Sale a Watershed Moment? I Beg to Differ
By Lee Broughton, Head of Corporate Sustainability, Enterprise Holdings. TheCityFix.com website – a highly respected online resource for sustainable transport news, research and “best practice” solutions – recently suggested that the just-announced acquisition of Zipcar represents a watershed moment for car sharing. I beg to differ. Don’t get ...
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