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It’s time to speed up the sustainability shift

GreenBiz

We assumed the roles you would expect at a manufacturing site designed to supply a global market — supply chain, operations, HR, marketing, sales, IT, EHS — as well as the roles sometimes considered "fringe" but that are in reality critical success factors such as government officials (a local mayor) and civil society (an NGO leader).

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Owens Corning's Frank O'Brien-Bernini Reflects on His 38+ Year Career With the Company

3BL Media

First, the IPCC made it clear that human activity was contributing to climate change. For two decades I have leaned heavily on the triple-bottom-line model, where we challenge ourselves (in the corporate world) to innovate within our environmental and social initiatives and execute projects with a clear positive economic impact.

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These 50 Canadian corporate citizens are a cut above

Corporate Knights

Just as more than 95% of climate scientists accept the truth of climate change, most corporate leaders recognize that their role in society has changed. It’s evidence that the “triple bottom line” (profit, people and planet) doesn’t compromise the single bottom line – but expands it.

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Meet the women warrior accountants pushing the envelope on climate action

Corporate Knights

Chauvin framed the most urgent issues facing the planet – climate change, waste, pollution, slave and child labour – as accounting failures. 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.

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Global Perspectives on the Difference Between CSR and ESG

3BL Media

DESCRIPTION: Sustainability efforts have gained momentum as businesses and governments experience the mounting impact of climate change. ESG assessments can be and often are undertaken voluntarily, but with the increase in government action on climate change, some ESG assessments have become a necessary part of regulatory compliance.

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Want To Boost the Global Economy by $10 Trillion?

3BL Media

Elizabeth Vargas Vilca and her staff at her shoe manufacturing business. All it requires is that we commit to and intentionally invest in prioritizing and designing products and services that women want and need with the recognition that in doing so we’re capitalizing on an enormous triple-bottom-line opportunity.

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Investments in People Sustainability Drive Positive Business Outcomes, Says New SAP Research

3BL Media

As organizations increasingly shift their strategies toward a triple-bottom-line approach focused on profits, planet, and people, it’s this last pillar that is intrinsically part of the other two despite being historically overlooked. We know that getting this right — or wrong — has real implications.