The Return on Sustainability: Identifying and achieving the Business Case behind environmental, social and economic issues
The support of financially minded senior executives, and in particular the CEO and CFO, is an absolute necessity to ensure that sustainability is adopted broadly. Without a clear business case however, many of these executives will not act beyond compliance to regulations.
The sustainability community has long grappled with the thorny issue of building a non-anecdotal case. This article is the first in a series of concrete discussions around the business case. Mar. 17, 2010
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Energy as a cost and a risk
Energy has the potential to impact company's profitability - but not all energy sources will do it the same way. Here is what a financially-minded executive should think about Jan. 5, 2010
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Holistic Management of Sustainability through Carbon and Data
How does carbon measurement and reduction help companies beyond climate change regulations, and use of data to achieve sustainability. Dec. 21, 2009
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Forty year old in 2050
Even climate skeptics concede that there is a nontrivial chance of dangerous global warming. That is a risk we cannot take. Dec. 4, 2009
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Why Cleantech and Sustainability are one and the same
The field of Sustainability includes many areas - all revolving around managing the risks and opportunities created by the new social, economic and environmental conditions. Cleantech has traditionally focused on the technology innovation - be it alternative energy sources or green data centers. In the new world where the environmental crisis triggers economic conditions, the two are already becoming one and the same. Nov. 30, 2009
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Perspectives of Hopenhagen: of travels and calories
In preparation for COP15 in Copenhagen, and supporting UN-backed hopenhagen.org campaign, a couple of newsworthy items Nov. 24, 2009
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When do you need a system for sustainability?
In which cases a system provides strong ROI than non-IT based methods? Nov. 23, 2009
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Getting COP15 to deliver the 4 basics on climate change
Four key points that Copenhagen's talks must get to Oct. 21, 2009
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Europe's in-house squabbles - an opportunity to set example?
Some EU members want to contribute less to the "pot" Europe is prepared to contribute to development countries to fight climate change. Is the opportunity to act as role model going to be squandered? Oct. 21, 2009
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Raising pressure on climate change - running to COP15
Copenhagen's United Nations Climate Change Summit is a point of arrival, and a point of departure. Let's make sure that they are both successful.
This is the road to "Hopenhagen". Oct. 16, 2009
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