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  • Survey on Sustainability Leadership

    Findings from The Sustainability Survey

    11 Apr 2011 – Report

    GlobeScan and SustainAbility asked sustainability experts which sectors of society, which companies, and which visionary individuals are most effectively advancing the sustainability agenda.

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  • Global Economic Recovery and Sustainability

    Findings from The Sustainability Survey

    07 Mar 2011 – Audio/Video

    In collaboration with GlobeScan we surveyed sustainability professionals and interviewed members of the SustainAbility Council to explore the following question: what does a global economic recovery mean for the corporate sustainability agenda?

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  • Urbanization and Megacities in Emerging Economies

    Findings from The Sustainability Survey

    10 Feb 2011 – Audio/Video

    GlobeScan and SustainAbility surveyed sustainability experts and practitioners to explore how the rise in urbanization and the growth of megacities, particularly in emerging economies, will impact the corporate sustainability agenda.

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  • Issue Brief: Climate Change and Global Health

    The Role for Business

    11 Jan 2011 – Article

    An overview of the health-related challenges posed by climate change, with a number of inspiring examples of how the private sector can contribute products, services and expertise to help tackle these challenges.

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  • Road to Credibility 2010

    A Survey of Sustainability Reporting in Brazil

    28 Oct 2010 – Report

    Road to Credibility 2010 focuses on how effectively Brazilian businesses are reporting on their sustainability efforts.

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  • The Biodiversity Challenge for Business

    2010 is International Year on Biodiversity, but what might it mean for business?

    01 Nov 2009 – Article

    John Elkington and Jennifer Biringer suggest that biodiversity may soon force its way higher on the corporate sustainability agenda.

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  • Our Number's Up and It's 350

    08 Oct 2009 – Conversation

    John Elkington talks to Bill McKibben, the man behind 350.org, the global campaign on climate change.

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  • Issue Brief: Displacement

    Making displacement work for everyone

    01 Apr 2009 – Article

    This issue brief explores ways in which companies that displace can ensure the rights of the displaced are respected – and in the best of cases, responsible companies can leave them economically and socially better off.

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  • 2008: A Year of Extremes (Nikkei Ecology)

    Weather, exchange rates, commodity prices and the potential for new economic paradigms

    15 Jan 2009 – Article

    2008 turned out to be a year of extremes. The question now is whether 2009 will join 1929, 1939 and 1989 in the list of years when a totally new economic and political order began to surface.

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  • In Doha’s Fading Light, a Call to Action (China Dialogue)

    13 Oct 2008 – Article

    Nationalistic tendencies have hindered the world’s ability to address developing countries’ interests. A solution that fosters cooperation while supporting the principles of sustainable development is crucial write John Elkington and Jodie Thorpe.

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  • Repowering the World (Director)

    30 Sep 2008 – Article

    The US must reinvent.

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  • Gore and Obama Compete for JFK's Mantle (Nikkei Ecology)

    19 Aug 2008 – Article

    In the wake of two powerful speeches, American politicians Al Gore – the former Vice-President – and Senator Barack Obama – this year's Democratic presidential nominee – have both been compared to President John F. Kennedy.

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  • Let's Be Unreasonable About This (The Guardian)

    13 Feb 2008 – Article

    John Elkington writes in The Guardian on the role of social entrepreneurs.

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  • The Race to Sustainable Mobility (Sustainability Tomorrow)

    An interview with Mr. Dave Berdish, Manager, Ford Motor

    12 Feb 2008 – Conversation

    When many think of Ford, they think trucks and SUVs. What does the company mean by 'sustainable mobility'? Is it car-centered, and is this just a more palatable way to sell more vehicles without improving their environmental performance?

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  • Davos 2008: Ends and Beginnings (openDemocracy)

    31 Jan 2008 – Article

    This year's World Economic Forum summit clarified the scale of current global challenges and highlighted the key role of the world's new social entrepreneurs in addressing them, says John Elkington.

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