The European Business Review

By Natalie Slawinski and Tima Bansal
No industry is as visible and active in the climate change debate as the energy industry. Almost every day, managers are addressing the short-term and long-term implications of their policies for dealing with this issue. The authors of this article interviewed over 50 managers in 8 firms in the oil [...]

By Mikkel Kallesoe
All of the Earth’s ecosystems have been changed by human actions in some way in the past 50 years. This was the troubling conclusion in 2005 of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, perhaps the most comprehensive audit ever of the world’s natural resources. All ecosystems, it said, had been severely compromised in their ability [...]

By Lloyd Timberlake, WBCSD

What would a world increasingly shaped by sustainable development issues look like? In fact, what would a “sustainable” world look like?

Try to imagine a world of 9+ billion people where all can meet their needs in ways that do not destroy planetary systems. Now try to imagine why a group of business [...]

With the right conditions in place — education, entrepreneurialism, and environmental awareness among them — a young, eager, educated workforce can be the key to prosperity.

In June 2009, U.S. President Barack Obama noted in a speech at a Wisconsin town hall meeting that the U.S. would have to take decisive steps to better educate its [...]

Helene York, Director of Strategic Initiatives, Bon Appetit Management Company

Consumers say they want to buy ecologically friendly products and reduce their impact on the environment. But when they get to the cash register, their Earth-minded sentiments die on the vine. Although individual quirks underlie some of this hypocrisy, businesses can do a lot more to [...]

By Linklaters

Two suspects are arrested by the police. The police have insufficient evidence for a conviction, and, having separated the prisoners, visit each of them to offer the same deal. If one testifies and the other remains silent, the betrayer goes free and the silent accomplice receives a full 10-year sentence. If both remain silent, [...]

By Eva Zabey and Anne-Léonore Boffi, World Business Council for Sustainable Development

Water is used to make every product on Earth, and so all businesses, and all sectors, depend on it in some way. Around the world, we are all becoming more aware of water concerns, often through news stories about the effects of climate change [...]

By Chris Staples, Linklaters LLP Climate Change Practice

World leaders certainly have their hands full. Averting a prolonged global recession will be the key to political survival for the immediate future. However, underlying these relatively short term economic considerations, today’s politicians also face a much longer term challenge that will outlast their own fleeting moment on [...]

The dynamic Carbon division at Noble Group plays a major part in generating carbon credits all over the world in order to achieve global emission reduction results. Located in offices across Europe, North America and Asia, Noble Carbon Credits Limited takes full advantage of the rapidly expanding environmental and government initiatives being implemented around the [...]

By Chris Staples of the Linklaters LLP Climate Change Practice

World leaders certainly have their hands full. Averting a prolonged global recession will be the key to political survival for the immediate future. However, underlying these relatively short term economic considerations, today’s politicians also face a much longer term challenge that will outlast their own fleeting [...]