ESG Is Under Attack. How Should Your Company Respond?
[Over the last year-plus, I’ve done a lot of thinking, writing, and speaking about the so-called anti-ESG movement. It’s a complicated thing. This is my
2023: A Strange, Tumultuous Year in Sustainability
This was a rough year. The world’s biggest challenges generally got worse, or at least more complicated. Our biggest existential threat, climate change, is no
The Burden of Proof for Corporate Sustainability Is Too High
[One of my recurring topics…how the demand for the “business case for sustainability” is perhaps holding us back now. That is, how we can we
What is the “Right” Form of Climate Protest?
Hi all. Let me cut to the chase and say I don’t have the answer to the question I pose here. I don’t think anyone
Why Business Leaders Must Resist the Anti-Woke Movement
[I posted this on HBR a couple of weeks ago, but I’ve tweaked the title here to avoid a touch of confusion. The original says
ESG Is Going to Have a Rocky 2023. Sustainability Will Be Just Fine.
[I sense I’ll be writing many times about ESG vs. sustainability in some fashion. There’s so much noise on the topic and a lot is