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Four Tips To Keep Up With Retail Consumer Expectations on ESG and Sustainability

3BL Media

DESCRIPTION: In recent years, climate change has been making its way into news, media, and even pop culture more and more often. So, the question is, how can you show the consumer you are both talking the talk and walking the walk with your environmental and social practices? Double-Down on Transparency.

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Blistering heat is ravaging tourism hotspots. Can the industry reinvent itself?

Corporate Knights

On a sweltering July day in Rome, American tourists gave the thumbs down to future summer travel to the Italian capital, saying they would consider trips in the spring instead. The sheer volume of people overwhelms the island,” wrote Greek City News at the time. Travel and tourism added US$7.7

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A Q&A With KKR's Sustainability Expert Advisory Council

3BL Media

DESCRIPTION: At the end of last year, KKR announced the formation of our Sustainability Expert Advisory Council (SEAC), a six-member independent council that aims to bolster KKR’s environmental, social and governance (ESG) expertise and capabilities and advance our firm’s strategy and practices in this area.

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To Meet the Climate Challenge, Philanthropy Must Challenge Itself

Stanford Social Innovation

Despite the world’s best efforts to date, we still face a yawning investment gap of several trillion dollars a year that needs to be closed between now and 2050 to spare the planet from cataclysmic warming. In that time, we have witnessed many positive changes in climate philanthropy that sometimes go unnoticed.

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G7: Go all in for clean energy to cut family bills, create jobs and drive economic growth

We Mean Business Coalition

I hope they bring the right solutions to address the challenges of our time: spiralling costs of energy, the climate emergency and energy insecurity. . They need solutions that can be delivered immediately and keep costs down. . That solution exists – a clean energy system. That represents a 25% saving on their average bills.

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Wokeness and Stakeholder Capitalism

Caux Round Table

Veblen defined “conspicuous consumption” as buying what is observed by others in order to impress the rest of society through the manifestation of the buyer’s social power and prestige, be it real or perceived. Hollywood has been overtly progressive for decades, but this is nothing compared to the social justice invasion since 2016.

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Can Businesses Be Anchor Institutions?

Stanford Social Innovation

In the last decade, the social sector has paid increasing attention to the role of “anchor institutions” in building community health and wealth. By Lauren A. Taylor , Sabrina Werts , Shoba Ramanadhan , Chelsea Heberlein , Sara Singer & Emma-Louise Aveling. to say nothing of the more traditional practices of charitable giving.