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The rise of the chief sustainability officer

Corporate Knights

“Compliance and risk still play an important role, but we see CSOs increasingly take more responsibility for value creation.” By 2010, household products giant Unilever had developed a “Sustainable Living Plan” geared to reducing the company’s environmental footprint. Ikea’s sustainability is wide-ranging.

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From Net Zero to Net Positive

Sustainable Round Table

Since this sort of visionary, catalytic leadership is needed now more than ever before, it is right to ask: how can some executives and companies across different industries repeatedly be so far ahead of their peers in multi-stakeholder value creation that has proven more sustainable in complex globally scaling businesses?

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From Net Zero to Net Positive

Sustainable Round Table

Since this sort of visionary, catalytic leadership is needed now more than ever before, it is right to ask: how can some executives and companies across different industries repeatedly be so far ahead of their peers in multi-stakeholder value creation that has proven more sustainable in complex globally scaling businesses?