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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

GreenBiz

Rosalind Brewer is the first African-American and woman to steer the company’s Americas operations as well its global supply chain, product and store development. In the past decade, Natura has planted several hundred million dollars toward rainforest protection and sustainable development. Company profile. million acres the 4.4

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Here's the secret to cooling India’s buildings

Corporate Knights

Officials from the India Meteorological Department attributed the length of the unrelenting heat wave, ironically, to what is commonly seen as a marker of urban “development”: a boom in (heat-trapping) high-rises. A proportionately staggering pace and scale of construction is underway, leaving the country vulnerable to major climatic impacts.