GreenBiz

MARCH 24, 2020

As the limits on our go-to crisis-management tools become clear, it is increasingly apparent that we need the private sector to join the COVID-19 front line.

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Terra Infirma

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

On Tuesday, I was invited to listen to Paul Polman, who earned his Sustainability Leader spurs as Unilever CEO, speak at the Newcastle Business School at Northumbria University. Polman is a great speaker – no notes, plenty of jokes – and he made a number of very strong points.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Words of wisdom from Paul Polman of Imagine, Sanda Ojiambo of U.N. Global Compact and Hana Kajimura of Allbirds.

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Business Green

JULY 13, 2022

A climate-tech venture capital fund backed by Unilever boss and corporate sustainability veteran Paul Polman has announced it has raised $70m in its latest funding round to support the next generation of green entrepreneurs. Systemiq Capital is a joint venture from Polman, Jeremy Oppenheim, Systemiq, and Irena Spazzapan.

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Business Green

JULY 23, 2020

Last week, former Unilever CEO Paul Polman urged business leaders to be courageous in their response. Covid has made clear that there cannot be healthy people on an unhealthy planet," said Polman during his webcast conversation with Joel Makower, co-founder and executive editor of GreenBiz.

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Business Green

APRIL 14, 2024

Stephen Fry, Annie Lennox, Christiana Figueres, Forest Whitaker, and Paul Polman among those calling on G20 leaders to support global financial reforms to tackle debt and climate crises

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OCTOBER 8, 2021

Paul Polman, former CEO of Unilever, has co-authored — along with sustainability consultant Andrew Winston - 'Net Positive: How Courageous Companies Thrive by Giving More Than They Take'. Joel Makower: So, Paul, this is your first book. Polman: Absolutely. An icon of sustainable business has a new book.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Here is the original post: Episode 287: Paul Polman on being ‘net positive’ Plus, the clean energy transition offers an unparalleled to bring diversity into the energy workforce.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 4, 2021

” Excerpt from: Paul Polman on his new book and ‘courageous companies’ An icon of sustainable business says that most companies, including the one he led, are thinking holistically about what it means to be “net-positive.”

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Business Green

OCTOBER 14, 2020

In over a decade as CEO of consumer goods giant Unilever, Paul Polman became one of the most vocal advocates for a new form of purpose-driven capitalism. VIDEO: Former Unilever CEO offers his characteristically sage wisdom on corporate sustainability in the wake of Covid-19 in a wide-ranging interview with Gavin Esler.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 22, 2020

Paul Polman: ‘Businesses cannot succeed in societies that fail’ Deonna Anderson Wed, 07/22/2020 – 01:30 As people across the United States and the world grapple with the COVID-19 pandemic and calls for racial justice, the business community has an integral role to play in both the dialogue and the solutions to these social issues.

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Business Green

APRIL 11, 2022

Retailers around the world which fail to grapple with the green shift in consumer buying habits which is driving up demand for more environmentally-friendly products and services risk consigning themselves to "the graveyard of dinosaurs", according to former Unilever CEO Paul Polman.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

Plus, for the Tillamook County Creamery, sustainability is a multigenerational thing.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

More: Episode 188: What’s up with former Unilever CEO Paul Polman; one busy day for Interface CSO Erin Meezan. Plus, for the Tillamook County Creamery, sustainability is a multigenerational thing.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Investors include beer giant Heineken, former Unilever boss Paul Polman, and the National Geographic Society. The non-profit firm, which claims to have used 2.9 million slices of surplus bread to help brew its beer since its foundation in 2016, has an overarching goal to rescue one billion slices of bread from going to waste.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Follow this blog for the all the latest action throughout the day, which is broadly focused around the topic of net zero leadership - featuring appearances from the likes of Committee on Climate Change CEO Chris Stark, leading climate scientist Dr Emily Shuckburgh, Imagine co-founder Paul Polman, Minister for Climate Change and Corporate Responsibility (..)

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Business Green

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Polman calls capitalism 'damaged ideology' and urges private sector to spearhead progress towards the UN sustainable development goals.

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Business Green

APRIL 27, 2021

Paul Polman, Emma Howard-Boyd, and Michael Bloomberg among the latest recruits to the global UN-backed campaign. Saleem Huq, Dr Agnes Kalibata, Sheela Patel, Paul Polman, Manuel Pulgar Vidal, and Feike Sijbesma. It's an absolute honour to become a Global Ambassador for Race to Zero and Race to Resilience," he said.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Greta Thunberg, Paul Polman, Antonio Guterres, and numerous corporates are all crying out for government leadership - but will their calls be answered?

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GreenBiz

JUNE 19, 2020

In conversation with former Unilever CEO Paul Polman. EDT June 23 for a discussion of how companies such as Interface are getting suppliers to buy into circular models for manufacturing, distribution and beyond. . Fleet of clean fleet. Real-life lessons for trucking's future. Sign up for the conversation at 1 p.m. EDT July 2.

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Andrew Winston

MARCH 22, 2022

[ As part of last month’s GreenBiz conference, my Net Positive co-author (Paul Polman) and I wrote an article about the critical role of sustainability executives in driving change. They’re the connectors to the organization and the outside world. Here are some excerpts. The full article is here. ]. It’s a paradox.

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Business Green

MAY 5, 2020

Christiana Figueres, Nick Stern, and Paul Polman lead renewed push for beefed up approach to nature-based emissions reductions. In an open letter, the group issued a "global call" for governments and organisations to "engage in the fight against the global threats of biodiversity loss and climate change".

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Employees turned off by weak corporate sustainability plans, survey finds Survey backed by former Unilever boss Paul Polman suggests workers are ready to walk out on companies that don't align with their values. - by James Murray ( @James_BG ) Conscious quitting? by Cecilia Keating ( @cecilia_keating )

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AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Paul Polman’s rallying cry for courageous leaders Jean Haggerty Mon, 02/15/2021 – 02:15 In addition to having a devasting effect on lives and livelihoods, COVID-19 has been the biggest global disruptor in recent memory. We put communities together that rallied and filled in where others fell short,” Polman said.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

The importance of weaving climate action into the fabric of a company culture was a theme sounded by former Unilever CEO Paul Polman, chairman of the firm Imagine and author of a new book about net positive thinking , during this week's GreenBiz 22 event. Sustainability professionals are stewards of a company's culture, Polman said.

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Business Green

JUNE 10, 2021

Paul Polman, Gordon Brown and the Prince of Wales are among those demanding ambitious green commitments from G7 this weekend – will world leaders listen? We hope that the leaders can agree first on securing a healthy, green and just recovery at home in their own countries - in the G7 countries," Polman said. "To

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Andrew Winston

OCTOBER 12, 2021

It wasn’t just pandemic malaise…I was mostly working on a new book with the former Unilever CEO, the great Paul Polman. Some of you may have noticed that I have not written a lot of posts over the last 18 months or so. The result of that 2-year endeavor is finally out in the world.

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Business Green

JULY 2, 2020

The confirmed speaker line-up for the Festival features a host of top business leaders, including OVO Energy CEO Stephen Fitzpatrick, Shell UK Chair Sinead Lynch, BT Chair Jan du Plessis, and Drax CEO Will Gardiner.

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Andrew Winston

DECEMBER 10, 2021

I’m reposting this piece I wrote with my Net Positive co-author, the great CEO Paul Polman, in MIT Sloan Management Review. by Andrew Winston and Paul Polman. Any specific stories or big themes grab you this year? Let me know… ]. Companies Must Find the Courage to Back Up Statements on Climate Action.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Broadcast live from the BT Sport studios in London last week, the world's first Net Zero Festival featured a raft of business leaders, government Ministers, academics, and campaigners who came together to discuss the many challenges and opportunities associated with the net zero transition.

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Business Green

JUNE 16, 2020

Those interviewed include former Unilever CEO Paul Polman, PepsiCo Latin America CEO Paula Santilli, Mastercard vice chair Ann Cairns, Neste CEO Peter Vanacker, and Microsoft's chief environment officer Lucas Joppe, among others.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

The world has reached a tipping point in terms of climate action, according to former Unilever CEO Paul Polman. However, this tipping point is a negative one, Polman at the GreenBiz 22 event in Scottsdale, Arizona, on Tuesday. Companies talk too often about incremental improvements that optimise the current system, Polman said.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Confirmed speakers at the Festival include a host of top business leaders, such as BT chairman Jan du Plessis, former Unilever CEO Paul Polman, OVO Energy CEO and founder Stephen Fitzpatrick, Nicola Lovett, CEO for Engie UK and Ireland, We Mean Business CEO Maria Mendiluce, and Sinead Lynch, country chair at Shell.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Delegates at the Net Zero Festival will be able to hear from a raft of the UK's top green business leaders , politicians, scientists, academics, and campaigners, including former Unilever boss Paul Polman, leading climate scientist Dr Emily Shuckburgh, We Mean Business CEO Maria Mendiluce, and environmental campaigner and supermodel Arizona Muse, as (..)

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Andrew Winston

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Glad to help promote it and connect it to the idea of “net positive advocacy” from my work with Paul Polman. A more systems-oriented approach is what one of us (Andrew, along with his coauthor of the book Net Positive , Paul Polman) calls net positive advocacy. Lots of collaborating on this one!].

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Andrew Winston

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Also in 2009, Unilever’s then-new CEO, Paul Polman, told shareholders he would manage for the long haul and not meet with them quarterly. But we can go much further back than Polman and Welch. He shifted his owner base to investors wanting to hold the stock longer, and his company outperformed peers in the 2010s.

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Andrew Winston

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Also in 2009, Unilever’s then-new CEO, Paul Polman, told shareholders he would manage for the long haul and not meet with them quarterly. But we can go much further back than Polman and Welch. He shifted his owner base to investors wanting to hold the stock longer, and his company outperformed peers in the 2010s.

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