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Navigating internal politics to ‘get it done’

GreenBiz

Navigating internal politics to ‘get it done’. Often the most difficult aspect of a corporate sustainability professional’s job isn’t conducting materiality assessments, developing SASB indices or creating ESG reports — it’s dealing with good, old-fashioned organizational politics. Mike Hower. Thu, 05/13/2021 - 01:45.

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The Importance of Corporate Political Responsibility

Andrew Winston

They have developed an excellent framework on how companies should think about their political influence. Most companies rely on a dated model of engagement on policy with governments and civil society, compartmentalizing their political influence activities into an organizational silo, just as they used to do with their supply chains. (By

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New Study Reveals Billions of Dollars in Political Spending by US Trade Associations, Most of It on PR

DeSmogBlog

Industry trade associations in the United States that work on climate and energy issues spent more than $3 billion over 10 years on political activities, according to a new study that sheds light on trade associations’ role in influencing policies and obstructing climate action. billion on climate-related political activities.

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Political and business leaders meet to agree new action for tackling air pollution

Envirotec Magazine

They will be joined at the summit by Dr Tedros Adhanom, the Director General of the World Health Organization, Simon Stevens, the Chief Executive of NHS England, as well as UK Government Ministers. It will be attended by senior business leaders including Amazon, Google, Royal Mail, British Gas and Enterprise Rent-a-Car.

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Navigating internal politics to ‘get it done’

AGreenLiving

Navigating internal politics to ‘get it done’ Mike Hower Thu, 05/13/2021 – 01:45 Getting things done in corporate sustainability is easier said than, well, done. Love it or hate it, politics exists wherever humans come together to take collective action.

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Clean Energy Field Organizer

Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

Clean Energy Field Organizer | Iowa Environmental Council | Des Moines. The Iowa Environmental Council is a 501(c)3 nonprofit environmental law and policy organization that educates, advocates, and builds coalitions to make Iowa a better place to live, work and explore. Help the organization plan, host, and crowd build for events.

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Burgeoning hydrogen industry draws $41 million in federal lobbying from fossil fuel companies

Energy Central

This story was produced in partnership with OpenSecrets, a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that tracks money in politics. Jimmy Cloutier is the political reporter at opensecrets.org. The number of companies and organizations lobbying the federal government on issues related to hydrogen increased nearly tenfold since.