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The Pros and Cons of “Growth”

Andrew Winston

(A repost from my MIT SMR column. I actually wrote it last fall as I was thinking through my larger climate strategy piece in HBR. The wonderful book Factfulness by the late Hans Rosling — who delivered a massively popular TED talk on statistics — shows how much progress we’ve made in reducing human misery.

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The Biggest Sustainability Stories of 2019 (and what to watch for in 2020)

Andrew Winston

In my annual review of big themes in sustainability and business — in other words, how companies manage environmental and social issues and opportunities — I’ve always included a changing climate as a big story. Environmentalists have long debated whether “gloom and doom” messaging motivates action or just depresses people.

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

GreenBiz

They sparked uncomfortable conversations about diversity and discrimination, some pledging many millions of dollars to address lingering inequities internally and in society at large. Many celebrated with their CSOs on meeting ambitious corporate targets for 2020, while setting audacious new goals for 2025, 2030 and 2050. and globally by 2040.

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

AGreenLiving

They sparked uncomfortable conversations about diversity and discrimination, some pledging many millions of dollars to address lingering inequities internally and in society at large. Many celebrated with their CSOs on meeting ambitious corporate targets for 2020, while setting audacious new goals for 2025, 2030 and 2050. and globally by 2040.

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Fifty Shades of Greta

Green Market Oracle

Aditya Mukarji , is from New Delhi India, In March 2018 he began waging war on plastic straws. "We're building a mass-movement and reaching out quite far in our methods of mobilizing and gaining attention. What Greta does is incredibly inspiring but actually relatively far from that," she said.

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San Diego to Glasgow: SB21 & COP26 Address Sustainability Challenges

Climate 4.0

My role was to take a high-level view of nations and regions as a whole, as places to do business based on their technological and socioeconomic conditions and progress. My role was to take a high-level view of nations and regions as a whole, as places to do business based on their technological and socioeconomic conditions and progress.

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The Story of Sustainability in 2018: “We Have About 12 Years Left”

Andrew Winston

(Hi to my blog readers. Below is my annual year-end review of sustainability that was posted at HBR.org right after Christmas. That’s the clear message from a monumental study from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Happy new year. Part of the reason may be the title, which attracted some heated exchanges.