EU’s low carbon climate strategy – enough for competitiveness?
Europe – quo vadis? The Lisbon Council’s 2011 Eco-Innovation Summit convened on Thursday 13 January 2011 in Brussels under the timely theme of Cancún –and Beyond: Europe’s Next Steps on the Road to a...
View ArticleJames Hansen climate talk: Judges, China and moral implications
Yesterday I went up to Auckland University business school to attend Prof James Hansen’s public lecture on climate change and moral implications – or so was the official title. What he mainly presented...
View ArticleCleantech leaders: European Future Energy Forum 2011
If your company is at the cutting edge of sustainable innovation then this event might be of interest: The European Future Energy Forum in 2011 is focusing on the challenge of finding, developing and...
View ArticleResponsible aviation. But how?
The aviation industry faces real challenges in seeking to become more sustainable. How to reduce the negative environmental impact of air travel in times where more and more people want to fly? How to...
View ArticleDavos 2012: Reasons to be optimistic(?)
There shall be transformation, or so goes the dictum of this year’s World Economic Forum – the annual meeting of the powerful, the smart and the wealthy in Davos, Switzerland. Never, it seems, were...
View ArticleResponsible business: what else(?)
In theory, responsible businesses distinguish themselves from their less-caring corporate peers by delivering not only economic but also environmental and societal value. But what does this look like...
View ArticleConference: Decoding the ROI of Sustainability
Demonstrating the business case for sustainability investments, or even proving to skeptical decision makers that there is one, remains one of the biggest challenges for forward-thinking corporate...
View Article40 years of environment and sustainability summits – and counting
Stockholm, Rio, Montreal or Copenhagen: Long is the list of cities that have hosted international conferences on sustainability and the environment. Every time, thousands of delegates from government,...
View Article40 years of environment and sustainability summits: New Zealand’s role
It’s not easy to get the whole world together to come up with agreements regarding pressing issues of sustainability, climate change and the environment, as discussed in my last blog post (40 years of...
View ArticleInsights from the Delhi Sustainable Development Summit 2013
Among the many sustainability conferences, summits and events out there, such as CII-ITC Sustainability Summits, Nestlé’s Creating Shared Value Forum, Unilever’s USLP and many more, few come close to...
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