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Is sustainability undergoing a pandemic pause?

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For the first time, corporate sustainability professionals are on the bus instead of being thrown under it. Unlike previous economic downturns, sustainability isn’t being jettisoned in the spirit of corporate cost-savings. For the first time, corporate sustainability professionals are on the bus instead of being thrown under it.

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The State of Green Business 2021

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Such turmoil easily could have spelled the end, or at least the pause, of anything having to do with business and sustainability. The report found that "in large companies, there has been a significant increase in terms of the sustainability leader reporting to the CEO, from 19 percent in 2018 to 26 percent today.". That’s changing.

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11 young professionals on the future of sustainable finance

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"Finance professionals make up a fraction of the global population but are positioned to make and incentivize decisions that can shape the trajectory of the global economy," observed Ogechukwu Anyene, energy consulting manager at PowerAdvocate, who was part of the Emerging Leaders cohort at GreenBiz Group’s inaugural GreenFin event.

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25 badass women shaping climate action in 2021

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New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern wasted little time raising the stakes in her nation’s fight against climate change after handily winning re-election in October. Drawing on that mandate, Ardern declared a "climate emergency" and set the wheels in motion for New Zealand’s public sector to become carbon neutral by 2025.