Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

When Eban Goodstein earned his PhD in economics at the University of Michigan in 1989, sustainability had not yet entered the vocabulary of his field. He sees many approaching sustainability much as large corporations have: first by greenwashing, then by isolating the subject as an elective, then by gradually introducing it into core courses.

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Greenwashing Chief Sustainability Officer Corporate Social Responsibility Academics 318

Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Currently, just 5% of businesses have assigned responsibility for setting the strategic direction on sustainability action to their organisations CFO. Instead, it falls to an array of other leaders, including the Board of Directors (25%), CEOs (21%), Chief Sustainability Officers (15%) and Chief Operating Officers (10%).

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Supply Chains Supply Chain Chief Sustainability Officer Net Zero 69

Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

The impetus for net zero following the Paris COP came from the academic community, was endorsed and framed by policymakers, and requires business model change, often radical, to be implemented by corporates. “We have to acknowledge that with the transition to net zero, finance is an enabler not really the driver.”.

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