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Meet the women warrior accountants pushing the envelope on climate action

Corporate Knights

In the 1990s, progressive economists were pushing for what they called full-cost accounting: a triple bottom line that took profits, people and the planet into consideration. She found herself burrowing back into her textbooks, returning to first principles as she tried to come up with a meaningful way to measure social impact.

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

GreenBiz

Gutierrez joined NRG from Dynegy in 2004 as an energy portfolio director. Patti Poppe has a grounded, straight-talking style, an inclination to see opportunities in crisis, and an embrace of innovation to enrich the triple bottom line. The engineer holds master’s degrees in mineral economics and petroleum economics.