Posts Tagged: Business blog

The wisdom of the crowd was particularly evident at our pivotal Net Positive conference. The attendees – 200 sustainability experts – offered many great insights for firms stepping up a gear. Their guide to going net positive is available via Green Mondays. For a company to reach a net positive result, it’ll need to make [...]

‘Even doubling our current rate of decarbonisation, would still lead to emissions consistent with 6 degrees of warming by the end of the century’.  PwC. ‘The world has failed to meet its target to achieve a significant reduction in the rate of biodiversity loss’.  Convention on Biological Diversity. Optimisation is clearly failing.  We need to [...]

Think new “I can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I’m frightened of the old ones” – these words, from composer John Cage, ring especially true to me when considering the gulf between businesses that are glued to outmoded approaches, and others that are breaking in new, innovative models. It’s a topic WWF [...]

Many of us often complain about the slow pace of change – the slow trudge towards a green economy – but there are reasons to be excited. So many business plans are getting a real make-over right now. Just over the last few weeks, there have been some impressively well organised deep dives with companies [...]

Are you in the tuna business, but chasing a red herring? The current reputation wins through moving to different fishing technologies are taking centre stage, with the potential to prevent us from locking on to the pursuit of more rounded solutions. Many of the tuna species – the Atlantic, Southern and Pacific bluefin, Bigeye, Yellowfin, and [...]

Will we get a traffic light label any time soon to inform us on how nutritious and environmentally-friendly the food is on the high street? Yes, as soon as pigs fly, and when these flying pigs are gorging on forest-protecting animal feed. A panel earlier this week didn’t quite get to flying pigs, but we [...]

I participated in a Guardian Sustainable Business webinar last week to discuss how far companies’ responsibilities stretch in managing the impacts of the products they manufacture and sell on to consumers. My fellow panellists (representing business, academia, and myself from WWF) agreed business has to support managing the footprints of products well beyond the point where [...]

Bolder business ambitions are nudging the private sector into new approaches and while many companies will be left behind, many are embracing change as we begin to see a slow but sure updating of capitalism. Rio+20 is helping to build momentum in this space, while more and more business-led solutions arrive on the scene. Leading business [...]

The B4E conference last week in Berlin grappled with the challenges ahead for providing food, energy and water for a 2050 population of 9 billion. The suggestions from speakers and delegates will be captured in the event’s outcome statement, to be delivered into Rio+20. Here are some of the points that stood out for me… Elizabeth Thompson, [...]

Green innovation is gaining momentum, but will it lead to fundamentally shifting business into being green and more resilient or it will it stay in the innovation hothouse? Just some of the events in early 2012 illustrate the increasing interest in this field. The World Environment Centre and nearly a dozen multinational companies set up [...]