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The Four Best Practice Strategies Needed for Successful Carbon Management

By Tracey de Morsella on March 10, 2010 1 Comment BAE Systems, Best Practices Carbon Management, BHP Billiton, BP, building management systems, business process changes, carbon issue, carbon management, carbon management strategies, carbon reduction plan, CEOs, Chief Sustainability Officer, cisco, CO2 emissions, CO2 reduction goals, cross-functional strategy, CSR Directors, Dow Chemical Company, electric vehicle fleet trials, energy managers, finance, financial analysis, fuel data, granular energy, HP, Operations, Peter Charville-Mort, Proctor & Gamble, SAP, social responsibility, sustainability programs, Tracey de Morsella, transformational change, unintended consequences, Verdantix, Wal-Mart

A new report released by independent research firm, Verdantix, explains why firms are floundering with carbon management and putting the future of the business at risk due to flawed governance and strained business processes. It warns that unless CEOs take ownership of carbon management as a business transformation challenge their firms will fail to achieve absolute reductions in CO2 emissions.

Comprehensive Climate and Energy Legislation? The Ball is in Your Court Washington

By Michael D Tam on March 6, 2010 5 Comments Anne Stausboll, California Public Employees Retirement System, CalPERS, carbon emissions, CEOs, clean energy race, Climate Change, climate legislation, Colorado, Congress, Deutsche Bank, economic growth, energy independence, energy policy, global warming, green collar jobs, green economy, green jobs, innovation, job growth, Kevin Parker, legislation, low-carbon economy, Michael Brune, New Hampshire, NIKE, Obama, Oregon Ohio, Pew Research Center, Race for American Jobs & Clean Energy Leadership, renewable energy, Senate, Sierra Club, University of California, Washington, We Can Lead

Job creation. Innovation. U.S. competitiveness. In the eyes of the top CEOs in the U.S., before these goals become reality, the foundation of policies and comprehensive climate and energy legislation needs to be laid by those who reside in Washington D.C. As such, more than 80 CEOs from U.S. businesses, from eBay to PG&E to Virgin America, have sent a letter to President Obama and members of Congress asking them to create the impetus to achieve these goals by enacting climate and energy legislation.

Sustainability Leadership in Global Corporations – Take The Survey

By Aysu Katun on November 23, 2009 2 Comments CEOs, Chief Sustainability Officer, CSOs, Stanton Chase International, survey, sustainability, Thought Leadership in Sustainability Survey

Stanton Chase International, a global retained executive search firm, is inviting you to share your expertise and insight by participating in a short sustainability survey that is designed to take 10-15 min. The purpose of the survey is to determine the preferred skill sets and core competencies of today’s Chief Sustainability Officers “CSOs” and compare these findings to the skill sets that CEOs anticipate these positions will require five years from now.

Trust: Why Business Lost It, And How To Win It Back (Part 1 of 3)

By cjarvis on November 3, 2009 3 Comments Advertising Age, BBMG, big business, blog, capitalism, carbon outputs, CEOs, Charles Handy, community engagement, Consumer Confidence Index, consumers, corporate citizenship, corporate social responsibility, CSR, CSR follower, CSR message, CSR strategy, distrust, eco-friendly products, energy consumption, ethical management, Exxon Mobile, Facebook, food, free-market economy, General Electric, GM, good corporate citizens, green, greenwashing, Intel, Jack Neff, Kazuo Inamori, KYO, Kyocera, lack of trust, leverage social capital, LinkedIn, McDonald’s, Ning, packaging, PricewaterhouseCoopers, restoring trus, Shell, Social Media, social media platform, stakeholders, supply chain, sustainable, trust, trust quotient, twitter, Wal-Mart, waste

There is a serious lack of trust among consumers these days. Citizens of every country are eying large national and multi-national corporations with a narrowed, suspicious gaze. Questions are being asked. Answers demanded. With taxpayers around the world bailing out stupendous failures in the financial, housing, and insurance sectors, there is more than a lack of consumer confidence affecting the market. Frankly, we’re over it. We just don’t trust big business anymore. This is actually nothing new. But the uniform opinion of distrust, leveraged by the social media tools of Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Ning sites, and blogging seems to have brought us to a tipping point.