Executive Summary: Corporate sustainability in the U.S. is under attack. Most companies have gone quiet, while some have retreated, destroying real value. The sustainability community
Imagine if a study found that only 25% of sustainability investments paid off. It would be a scandal with extensive media coverage about how sustainability
[fyi, this was written before the election and published in MIT SMR that week. Some things have obviously changed, but this long-standing challenge in sustainability
UPS buys some EV delivery trucks for the same cost as gas-powered. It’s an important milestone, but isn’t the whole story.
Shareholders that don’t get the business case for renewables should be ignored.
Walmart takes a longer view on the “payback” for renewable power.
Contrary to the popular misconception that going green is expensive, in a very large range of cases, environmental initiatives don’t raise costs, they lower them
