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The rise of the chief sustainability officer

Corporate Knights

She pushed executives to see climate issues not just as an emissions problem, but as the source of new business opportunities through innovations in sustainable materials and processes, such as producing ethanol from plant waste and reducing the volatile organic compounds in paints. 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?