Strategy

No matter where your company is on its sustainability journey, you will inevitably have to field some tough questions from your CEO or other executives about sustainabity. Here's a cheat-sheet to help you prepare. Read More

Coordinating and providing leadership for sustainability across a global enterprise is extremely challenging; here are the top ways we've seen firms lay out their organizational structure, and how well it can work. Read More

This survey of more than 750 CEOs conducted by Accenture and the U.N. Global Compact explores to what extent companies are embracing green issues and preparing for a future where sustainability is central to business. Read More

A survey of more than 750 CEOs around the world conducted by Accenture and the United Nations finds that 93 percent say sustainability is key to their firms' successes, and that the time for action on green issues has come. Read More

A number of software tools exist to help small- and medium-sized businesses measure and manage their utility use; we've rounded up five of the top solutions to see how they stack up, and how easy they make it for you to save money and reduce your carbon footprint. Read More

Businesses can invest in local social and environmental projects to halt or reserve desertification, engage with suppliers to reduce degradation, and create products that improve agricultural sustainability and enable restoration of damaged land. Read More

Northland Pines High School in Wisconsin, the first public high school to receive a LEED-Gold rating, will go down in the annals of green building history as the target of the first third-party appeal of LEED certification. Are the parties disputing the certification needling naysayers or constructive critics? Read More

Sainsbury's has invested in new technology that will allow the retailer to make real-time supply chain decisions to reduce food waste caused by unexpected weather. Read More

In a nod to its years-long shift toward a broader focus on energy and sustainability management, software firm Carbonetworks rebranded itself as ENXSuite and named a Silicon Valley veteran to be its new CEO to navigate the company through a nascent but increasingly competitive market. Read More

Innovation, costs, and regulation now drive leading firms to increasingly embrace carbon management and sustainability, but within the next few years, companies will move in greater numbers from a tactical to strategic approach as factors such as emissions and resource scarcity take on greater importance in C-suite decisionmaking. Read More