Michelle Mosser

Ethical Corporation’s second State of Responsible Business report shows that corporate social responsibility has been boosted by the Paris Agreement but sustainability is far from business as usual by Giles Constantine, Ethical Corporation   After the historic events of 2015 – from the highs of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the outcome from the

>> Back to July/August 2016 Issue A new book by Mark Mykleby, Patrick Doherty, and Joel Makower   The New Grand Strategy describes a business plan for America, born at the Pentagon, that embeds sustainability as a strategic national imperative. It tells how a discipline called “grand strategy” has been used in the past to

Coal and gas will begin their terminal decline in less than a decade, according to a new BNEF analysis. by Tom Randall, Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF)   The way we get electricity is about to change dramatically, as the era of ever-expanding demand for fossil fuels comes to an end—in less than a decade.

The University of Massachusetts in late May 2016 became the first major public university to divest its endowment from direct holdings in fossil fuels. The decision was made by a unanimous vote of the Board of Directors of the UMass Foundation, a separate not-for-profit corporation that oversees an endowment whose value was $770 million at

Uncommon Cacao, an industry-leading premium cacao supply chain operation, announced in late June 2016 the closing of its Series A impact investment capital raise led by Pi Investments as lead investor and Acumen as the largest investor in the round. Founded in 2010, Uncommon Cacao (www.uncommoncacao.com) works directly with smallholder farmers in Central America to