A New Zealand-focused analysis finds businesses in areas with healthier ecosystems tend to generate higher sales and profits, revealing an overlooked green benefit.
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NZ’s world-first regime aimed to improve transparency in how institutions assess climate risk. So why are some choosing to say little about changes being made?
A just transition to a green economy with broad growth in employment will require deliberate efforts.
Why would companies be coy about doing good things?
Understanding travellers’ willingness to pay for green travel could help airlines find ways to reduce the environmental impact of their industry.
Our research, spanning 13 countries in the Asia-Pacific region, found that for companies, better carbon management was linked to significantly lower financial risk.
Previous research had found that consumers think these types of eco-friendly policies are inconvenient.
Recent advancements in the ways organizations measure sustainability performance could lead to a truly authentic approach to sustainability in the business sector.
There are four main ways that greening can benefit businesses.
The response to COVID-19 suggests how we can leverage entrepreneurial approaches to climate change.
Without the private sector cutting carbon emissions – rather than just lobbying the government for action on climate – the world will never reach the temperature targets of the Paris Agreement.
With a Trump administration hostile to action on climate change, businesses need to go beyond just complying with environmental regulations and take on the whole system.
As a remedy to rampant consumerism and the throwaway culture of fast-fashion, a few clothing brands actively encourage their customers to buy less.
What have businesses put on the table ahead of the Paris climate summit in December?
Have the Sustainable Development Goals been co-opted by big business?
To make a meaningful difference to climate change, businesses will have to break out of a cycle of exploiting the earth’s resources in ever-more creative ways.
Many people consider capitalism the cause of climate change. Can leading thinkers in business and academia make business the primary means to tackle the climate crisis?
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Holcim (US) Professor of Sustainable Enterprise, Ross School of Business, School for Environment & Sustainability, University of Michigan
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Distinguished Professor of Energy and the Environment, University of Delaware (USA); Honorary Professor, The University of Queensland
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Professor of Law and Co-Director, Energy, Environment and Land Use Program, Vanderbilt University
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Climateworks Centre CEO, Monash University
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Professor of Markets, Business, and Society, University of Bath
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Professor of Earth & Environmental Sciences, Vanderbilt University
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Professor of Organisational Studies, University of Sydney
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Professor of Consumer Research, University of Bristol
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Professeur agrégé de management stratégique, Université de Sherbrooke
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Professor of Entrepreneurship, Kingston University
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Principal Academic in Strategy, Bournemouth University
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MRB Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship, University of Colorado Boulder
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Ph.D. Candidate in Hospitality Business Analytics, University of Delaware
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Associate Professor, University of Southern Queensland
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Associate Professor, University of Newcastle